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Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:57am on Monday, February 8th, 2010

How Much Did Fox Edit Bill O'Reilly's Interview with Jon Stewart?

A lot, reported Gawker on February 5, 2010:

"Fox News has generously placed the full, unedited conversation between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart online, so we can see precisely how unfairly and deviously Fox edited the interview in order to weaken Stewart's case: A lot!

Last night on his show—Part Two of a ludicrously overhyped "faceoff" between O'Reilly and Stewart in which Stewart attempted, among other things, to present a critique of Fox as a fear-mongering GOP messaging operation—O'Reilly boasted that his edit of their 42-minute interview for broadcast was "a fair cut" and invited viewers to have a look at the unedited version online to judge for themselves: "Some of these idiots in the press who hate us, 'O'Reilly cut the interview to make Stewart look'—OK, all of that is bull. It's a fair cut. And then when you watch the cut and watch the whole interview you'll see it."

So we took him up on the offer, and guess what? If by "fair cut" O'Reilly means 'cut in a manner that left some of Stewart's best lines, most effective arguments, and most convincing evidence out of the interview and hidden from the broadcast audience,' then he's absolutely right."

The full story (and video of the unedited interview):
http://gawker.com/5465299/im-not-saying-your-mothers-a-whore-how-fox-news-censored-jon-stewarts-showdown-with-bill-oreilly

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 10:26am on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Fox Most Trusted News Network, or Just Guarding Henhouse?

Politico reported on January 27, 2010:

"Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.

Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.

There was a strong partisan split among those who said they trusted Fox — with 74 percent of Republicans saying they trusted the network, while only 30 percent of Democrats said they did.

CNN was the second-most-trusted network, getting the trust of 39 percent of those polled. Forty-one percent said they didn’t trust CNN.

Each of the three major networks was trusted by less than 40 percent of those surveyed, with NBC ranking highest at 35 percent. Forty-four percent said they did not trust NBC, which was combined with its sister cable station MSNBC.

Thirty-two percent of respondents said they trusted CBS, while 31 percent trusted ABC. Both CBS and ABC were not trusted by 46 percent of those polled.

“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in his analysis of the poll. “But the media landscape has really changed, and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”

The full story:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32039.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:18pm on Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Fox News Clear Election Night Winner

TV Newser reported on January 21, 2010:

"Fox News Channel put up its best numbers since Election Night 2008. FNC was the #1 news channel in all day-parts, beating the three cable news channels combined in all categories. "Hannity" at 9pmET had its highest Total Viewer average ever (you have to go back to 2003 for a higher number when the show was "Hannity & Colmes".)

Primetime 8-11pmET (Live +SD)
FNC: 6,161,000 Total Viewers (1,901,000 in A25-54)
CNN: 1,503,000 Total Viewers (483,000 in A25-54)
MSNBC: 1,138,000 Total Viewers (387,000 in A25-54)
HLN: 668,000 Total Viewers (250,000 in A25-54)

Total Day
FNC: 2,235,000 Total Viewers (664,000 in A25-54)
CNN: 809,000 Total Viewers (271,000 in A25-54)
MSNBC: 484,000 Total Viewers (155,000 in A25-54)
HLN: 329,000 Total Viewers (155,000 in A25-54)

Fox News peaked around 9:20pmET when the Massachusetts special election for U.S. senator was called for Brown. With Bret Baier making the call, FNC averaged a whopping 6.81M Total Viewers. CNN drew 1.68M, MSNBC had 1.24M and HLN had 845K."

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:43am on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Yes, he can! The new White House communications director shares his predecessor's view of Fox News.

TV Newser reported on January 18, 2010:

"The White House has a new communications director -- Dan Pfeiffer -- but the message is the same when it comes to Fox News Channel.

During a video interview today with The New York Times' The Caucus blog, Pfeiffer was clear about the White House position on Fox News:

"I have the same view of Fox that Anita [Dunn] had, which is that Fox is not a traditional news organization. They have a point of view. That point of view pervades the entire network both the opinion shows, like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, but also through the newscasts during the day," Pfeiffer said.

"We don't feel an obligation to treat them like we would treat a CNN or an ABC or an NBC or a traditional news organization. But there are times when it would make sense to communicate with them and appear on the network."

Fox News responded tonight: "Obviously new to his position, Dan seems to be intent upon repeating the mistakes of his predecessor... and we all remember how well that turned out."