Gawker’s Fox News Mole Strikes Again…With A Whole Lot Of Nothing

He’s baaaaaaack! Joe Muto, aka Gawker’s “Fox News Mole” (who was served with a search warrant this morning), returns with a hard-hitting behind-the-scenes expose of … Bill O’Reilly‘s interview with 1980s sitcom puppet star ALF.

Really?! I wrote in my first Mediaite column that Muto’s revelations were yawn-worthy, but this one takes the cake for banality.

Gawker titled the post “Fox News: The Most Powerful Name in ALF Interviews,” so I guess we’re supposed to come away thinking that the ALF interview represents Fox’s silly editorial decisions as a whole.

RELATED: Why I Never Became Mediaite’s Fox News Mole

But once again, this latest dispatch feels more like lame gossip-porn for the anti-Fox crowd, serving only to confirm their prior convictions that Fox News is a producer of all things unethical and trite.

Newsflash, Joe: cable news has what’s known as a 24-hour news cycle. And Fox certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on the occasionally vapid programming used to fill it.

Wolf Blitzer had a riveting conversation with Kermit the Frog. Anderson Cooper did some wig-fitting with Miss Piggy. Erin Burnett got down to business with Elmo. Heck, at some point, most of the cable networks have interviewed the cast members of Jersey Shore (not puppets…or are they?).

It really does seem like Gawker insists on wasting our time.

View the offending ALF interview below, via Fox News:

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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