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== Early Life and Education == |
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As a child Cameron spent several years in Iran, where his father worked as an archaeologist. <ref>[http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/05/07/students/index3.html] Salon story on the Israeli art student controversy quotes Cameron on his upbringing.</ref> |
As a child Cameron spent several years in Iran, where his father worked as an archaeologist. <ref>[http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/05/07/students/index3.html] Salon story on the Israeli art student controversy quotes Cameron on his upbringing.</ref> |
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He later attented [[Bates College]], where he played college basketball.<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200410050005]Mediamatters transcript of Cameron's Bush pre-interview tape.</ref> |
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== Professional Career == |
== Professional Career == |
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Revision as of 21:49, 17 December 2008
Carl Cameron (born November 13, 1955) is a television journalist and commentator for Fox News Channel in the United States.
Early Life and Education
As a child Cameron spent several years in Iran, where his father worked as an archaeologist. [1]
Professional Career
Cameron began his broadcast career in 1985 at radio stations WFEA and WZID in Manchester, New Hampshire. Later he worked as political director for WMUR-TV in New Hampshire.
In 1995 he began work for FOX NEWS covering the 1996 Presidential campaign. He joined Fox News full time as its first Capitol Hill Correspondent in 1996. Cameron has worked as political correspondent for FOX NEWS covering every presidential candidate since 1996. After the 2000 election FOX named Cameron its first Chief Political Correspondent. After the 2004 campaign FOX named Cameron its first Chief White House Correspondent. In June 2006, Cameron returned to his job as Chief Political Correspondent to cover the midterms and prepare for the 2008 presidential campaign.
Criticism
Alleged bias
Cameron has been criticized as being a partisan Republican in his reporting, both in what he reports and in the way he labels concepts, persons and issues on which he reports.[2][3][4][5]
Conflict of interest
The documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism includes a video segment in which Cameron talks with George W. Bush about his wife's involvement in Bush's 2000 presidential campaign just before a Fox News interview.[6] According to the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ): "Journalists should: Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility." [7]
Allegations of journalistic fraud
Media watchdog groups claim that on a number of occasions Carl Cameron has fabricated statements by Democratic politicians, and that this was done to boost their Republican opponents. One claim cited by Media Matters for America was a claim that John Kerry labeled George W. Bush a "warmonger" who intended to create "perpetual war" around the world; Media Matters asserted that no such instance of that criticism ever occurred.[8]
In another instance, Cameron wrote a story posted on the Fox News website which included fabricated quotes from Kerry; the senator purportedly called himself a "metrosexual" and Bush a "cowboy" and spoke effeminately about a manicure. Official Fox News spokesman Paul Schur later said it was intended to be an internal joke not for publication, and the network apologized for the piece, but only on its website, and only through a tag on the article in which these quotes appeared.[9]
See also
External links
References
- ^ [1] Salon story on the Israeli art student controversy quotes Cameron on his upbringing.
- ^ [2] Mediamatters Article on Cameron calling Democrats "stonewallers" from the "angry liberal left"
- ^ [3] Salon.com article about Cameron's handling of the Bush DUI arrest story
- ^ [4] Opinionjournal article about Cameron's handling of the Bush DUI arrest story
- ^ [5] Mediamatters Article on Cameron subtly attacking Kerry by injecting additional information on a quote Kerry used
- ^ [6] YouTube video of the segment
- ^ [7] Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
- ^ [8] Mediamatters Article on the warmonger claim
- ^ [9] USA Today: "Fox News pulls reporter's item with fake Kerry quotes"