It's time for journalists to stand up against Fox News

[Commentary] Rolling Stone's profile of Fox News chief Roger Ailes this week provides the latest item in a long line of evidence that Fox News is a morally bankrupt sham of a news organization - a propaganda outlet that engages in intentional lying to advance its partisan cause. If you haven't read the piece yet, do. It's vital media criticism.

I've met plenty of journalists who bristle when I criticize Fox News. They've told me that, as defenders of free speech and the First Amendment, journalists should not be in the business of trying to silence other voices in the media marketplace. But as defenders of truth, journalists also have an obligation to call out voices that intentionally spread lies to the public. Fox News' owners and executives have a right to speak. But they don't have a right to set the public agenda. It's past time for responsible journalists to stand up against Fox News.