Outfoxxed

Throughout the past week I have seen a great documentary in which has provoked the sense of reason withing myself. The name of the documentary is "Outfoxxed", a documentary in which portrays Fox News and how they are basically pro-republican and how their type of news is only what they (Fox Network) want to be displayed. Basically the documentary starts off with Rupert Murdoch, the founder of the news corporation acquiring a Washington D.C based news station, and about a couple decades later Fox news had became the offspring of this "D.C" based news station. When he founded the Fox news corporation, he was fond of President Ronald Reagan which led to an obsession with the Republican political party and this is where the seed of injustice began. From this point on, Fox news displayed only what they wanted to display, in favor of the Republican political party. For example when Senator John Kerry was running for President, all Fox news did was they displayed on how George W. Bush Jr. was such a great man, president, husband etc. and how John Kerry was could only destroy the United States. All of those rumors about Senator Kerry that the news generated were all false. The most controversial rumor and also the most ridiculous was that Sen, Kerry was French because French people are assumed as lazy. In addition, Fox news had also brought in some pretend French politician state that all french people do is think all the time therefore no work is done whatsoever. Honestly these statements/examples are completely ridiculous because who can properly designate which ethnic group is lazy or not and then relate these examples to John Kerry just because he looks like a French citizen (which does not make any sense whatsoever). Another example is that news anchors, reporters, and analysts could only say certain phrases or reveal certain answers delegated by Fox news because they were under contract and if they breached the contract they would be fired and in most situations, sued. Is this even legal even if these employees of Fox News are covering the truth with lies? So this brings me to my question is that are there morals and standards within news that should be followed on a daily basis and if so, why?