Fox News: We Will Hire a Guinea Pig to Harass, Stalk, and Intimidate You

[Brando @$$ Fat]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/01/jenkins-professor-ambush/

This isn't breaking news or anything, but this video is a tell-all. I hope this guy is assigned to stalk a satanist cult leader.

[Homyrrh]

Fair, but grossly annoying.

[countchocula]

Fair? How is being ambushed by a greasy "journalist" fair? It would have been FAIR to invite the guy on the show to have an intelligent discussion instead of stalking him.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

It's only "fair" because, for some reason, what he does barely exists within legal boundaries. It doesn't eliminate the fact that he personally is a complete tool being used by the network as a means to annoy people outside working hours.

I hate this kind of journalism. I hate it when Michael Moore does it and I hate it even more when this prick does it...because even Michael Moore has enough common courtesy not to harass people on their own property (yes, I have seen this man do that). It's a kind of intellectually lazy, pseudo-populist form of journalism. Some fancy-schmancy Ivy League professor makes some liberal comment, so they get some lower-caste errand boy at Fox News to expose him for his generally disgusting nature while he goes shopping/watches his son's little league game/mows the lawn on his own property/minds his own goddamn business.

[Homyrrh]

I had meant to imply that the pursuit of truth in the issue was "fair", not the means by which he choose to pursue his goal. As I had also said, it is "grossly annoying". He had an inaccuracy in a history book...not quite the first incorrect book I've read.

I do agree, almost entirely, that there is no place for this type of "journalism".