Fox News Channel

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:13pm on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

John Harwood of CNBC interviewed President Barack Obama on June 16, 2009. Obama described Fox News as "entirely devoted to attacking my administration." Part of the interview:

HARWOOD: Last question. When you and I spoke in January, you said—I observed that you hadn't gotten much bad press. You said it's coming. Media critics would say not only has it not come, but that you have gotten such favorable press, either because of bias or because you're good box office, that it's hurting the country, because you're not being sufficiently held accountable for your policies. Assess that.

Pres. OBAMA: It's very hard for me to swallow that one. First of all, I've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean, you know, that's a pretty...

HARWOOD: I assume you're talking about Fox.

Pres. OBAMA: Well, that's a pretty big megaphone. And you'd be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front. I think that, ultimately, my responsibility is to provide the best possible decision making on behalf of the American people at a time where we've got a lot of big problems. And, you know, we welcome people who are asking us some, you know, tough questions. And I think that I've been probably as accessible as any president in the first six months—press conferences, taking questions from reporters, being held accountable, being transparent about what it is that we're trying to do."

The full interview:
www.cnbc.com/id/31393724/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:04pm on Monday, June 1st, 2009

Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly described murdered doctor George Tiller as a "baby killer," and warned of "Judgment Day," Salon magazine reported on May 31, 2009:

"May 31, 2009 | When his show airs tomorrow, Bill O'Reilly will most certainly decry the death of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday while attending church services with his wife. Tiller, O'Reilly will say, was a man who was guilty of barbaric acts, but a civilized society does not resort to lawless murder, even against its worst members. And O'Reilly, we can assume, will genuinely mean this.

But there's no other person who bears as much responsibility for the characterization of Tiller as a savage on the loose, killing babies willy-nilly thanks to the collusion of would-be sophisticated cultural elites, a bought-and-paid-for governor and scofflaw secular journalists. Tiller's name first appeared on "The Factor" on Feb. 25, 2005. Since then, O'Reilly and his guest hosts have brought up the doctor on 28 more episodes, including as recently as April 27 of this year. Almost invariably, Tiller is described as "Tiller the Baby Killer."

Tiller, O'Reilly likes to say, "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000." He's guilty of "Nazi stuff," said O'Reilly on June 8, 2005; a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida, he suggested on March 15, 2006. "This is the kind of stuff happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union," said O'Reilly on Nov. 9, 2006."

The full story:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/31/tiller/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:18pm on Monday, May 18th, 2009

Tucker Carlson has moved from MSNBC to the Fox News Channel, TVNewser reported on May 16, 2009:

"Tucker Carlson made it official this morning becoming a paid contributor to Fox News Channel. His first appearance, coming on his 40th birthday, was on Fox & Friends just after 7amET.

"Life begins at 40 and your Fox career begins at 40 too," said co-anchor Dave Briggs.

"I've waited a long time to get here and I'm glad to be here," said Carlson. "We're delighted to have you," added Alisyn Camerota.

Carlson, a libertarian, spent five years at CNN where he co-hosted "from the right" the long-running "Crossfire" until its cancellation. He joined MSNBC in 2005 spending three years there anchoring a one-hour show until last March."

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 5:42pm on Sunday, May 10th, 2009

The success of Fox News is all about attitude and opinion, rather than news, according to Josef Adalian, writing in the April 20, 2009 issue of Television Week:

"What so many folks at CNN and MSNBC have in common is Fox Envy. Roger Ailes' Fox News Channel, after all, is the entity most responsible for TV news' abandonment of actual news."