Reader: Fox column was false

To the editor:
In Leonard Pitts’ latest hate filled defaming diatribe attacking Fox news he graduates from misinformation and ignorance of the subject to outright falsehood.
He specifically states that Fox is not a news organization because a PEW survey says Fox ran only 30 minutes of coverage in six days on the phone hacking scandal by a Rupert Murdock owned British newspaper when CNN did more.
In fact the survey was eight days and PEW only watched four prime time and one daytime hour each day.
Fox prime time is opinion, not hard news, but one show, Bill O’Reilly, did two feature stories complete with the disclaimer that Murdock owns Fox.
PEW’s four minute count in an unknown daytime hour is way low because I saw more coverage than that in both the 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. shows.
If you multiply PEW’s underestimate by the whole day and add a days’ live coverage of Murdock at Parliament the PEW study mentions, and you have 10 to 12 hours coverage on the subject.
After watching an hour of CNN talking heads chortling about Murdock embarrassing Fox and guessing what happens next, I prefer the ignorance of only being told the facts.
Fox has been No. 1 for 83 consecutive months, but Pitts’says if you want to be called a news organization “Step 1: Report the news.”
Fox did.
I say if you want to be called a journalist, Step 1: Report the Truth.
 Isn’t it time The Commercial Review stopped embarrassing itself by printing Pitts’ slanderous drivel?
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]