Posts tagged “Fox News”
How To Fight The War On Christmas
There’s been much debate about President Obama’s decision to feature the First Dog, Bo, cozying up by the fireplace as the illustration in this year’s White House holiday card. Sarah Palin, enraged as usual, had this to say about it to Fox News: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Fox News & Commentary that she found the [...]
The Problem With Non-Problems
Fox News has a knack for reporting on non-problems by making problems out of them. Such is the case of an article on their website today titled “Wind Farms Blow U.S. Off the Radar,” which at first made me fall to the ground in laughter because it resembled an Onion News Network satire piece from [...]
A Complete Mess
The Cain camp’s handling of the allegations of sexual harassment have been downright bad. Since the release of the Politico piece that broke the story of the allegations, the messages coming from the Cain campaign have been contradictory and unconvincing. Most recently they have taken to blaming the Perry campaign for releasing the information that led to the Politico story. [...]
What does the National Geographic Channel have in common with Fox News?
You can’t fool all the people all of the time But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind Tell me who’s got control of your mind? your world view? Is it the news or the movie you’re taking your girl to? Dead Prez — “Propoganda” If you watched the National [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s Bad Day
It seems like you can’t check the news today without hearing about another shocking, terrible or jaw-dropping item concerning the fallout of the News of the World hacking scandal that has spread to the rest of News Corporation. But for all of those who are hoping that Fox News will take a hit, think again. [...]
Gleeful Lemonade
On Monday, Fox News aired what — even by their practically non-existent standards — was a thoroughly ridiculous interview with “Michael Brown, who lost his job as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for mishandling the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – days after President Bush’s now-famous televised attaboy, “Brownie, you’re doing [...]
ThinkProgress Embraces The Fox News Style Of Reporting
Why would ThinkProgress deliberately misrepresent the words of Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenshit? (Oh, dear me, I seem to have a typo in the last word there.) Here’s what they quote him as saying: But I also know — I also know Washington and state politicians have no idea how to improve miner safety. The [...]
Bubble Boy, Take Two
Look who’s inherited the mantle of George Bush: media mogul and CEO of Fox News’ parent company, Rupert Murdoch. It seems he draws the line at consuming his own product — or even monitoring it for quality control — so he has no idea what sort of news (or not) Fox News puts out. Even [...]
Go Figure
A new Pew Research survey finds that independents give virtually identical favorability/unfavorability ratings to CNN and Fox News. CNN comes in at 55% favorable to 22% unfavorable; Fox News scores 55% favorable to 24% unfavorable. This really baffles me. CNN, for all its faults, still dabble in news. Fox News not only traffics almost entirely [...]