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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:30pm on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | Fox New is bad and un-American, Jacob Weisberg argues in the article "The O’Garbage Factor" published in the Newsweek magazine issue dated October 26, 2009:
"That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.
What's most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in many other countries that do have a free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American, so much so that he has little choice but go on denying what he's doing as he does it. For Murdoch, Ailes, and company, "fair and balanced" is a necessary lie. To admit that their coverage is slanted by design would violate the American understanding of the media's role in democracy and our idea of what constitutes fair play. But it's a demonstrable deceit that no longer deserves equal time."
The full story:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/218192
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:50pm on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | Glenn Beck of Fox News has lost some sponsors after calling President Obama a racist, Brian Stelter of the New York Times reported on August 13, 2009:
"About a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after Glenn Beck, the person, said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
The companies that have moved their ads elsewhere in recent days included ConAgra, Geico, Procter & Gamble and the insurance company Progressive."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/business/media/14adco.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:44pm on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | The host of Fox News' Freedom Watch, Judge Andrew Napolitano, makes Glenn Beck look like Jim Lehrer. That's according to Michelle Goldberg, writing at The Daily Beast on July 30, 2009:
"In its anti-Obama hysteria, Fox has mainstreamed voices once relegated to the fever swamps. This is most immediately clear in the apocalyptic buffoonery of Glenn Beck, and in the way the network has indulged the delusions of the so-called birthers, who insist that Obama was born in Kenya and thus can’t legally be president. Yet that’s just scratching the surface. On the weekly, hour-long Freedom Watch, which began airing in February, Fox gives its imprimatur to the kind of rhetoric once confined to the short-wave radio broadcasts of militia movements. After eight years of championing increased executive power, the network now hosts a show whose anti-government fixation sometimes leads to cheerful talk of dissolving the United States and dark warnings of impending tyranny."
The full story:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-29/too-hot-for-fox-news/?cid=hp:mainpromo3
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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/
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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/
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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."
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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."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:04pm on Friday, April 24th, 2009 | Glenn Beck (formerly of CNN Headline News, now of Fox News) is the hot new mob leader of 2009, Troy Patterson wrote at Slate on April 23, 2009:
"The Glenn Beck Program is an ever-growing bubble of current-events commentary burped up five nights a week on Fox News at 5 p.m. ET. I urge you to check it out. Bottom-barrel demagogy of this intensity is rarely available in one's living room, unless one's roommate is Huey Long.
On a set that owes something to CNN's experiments in technofuturism and something to the go-go pedestals on Soul Train, Beck natters stridently about the federal reserve and inflation, about the odds of a second civil war, about how the government "has been betraying the principles of the founders every day." He rails on and on against media, which hurt my feelings until I remembered that the guy denouncing the media has a show carried in 100 million households. Beck is like Stephen Colbert as understood by someone with no sense of irony, and this explains why Beck giggled a little while playing a clip of Colbert attacking his integrity."
The full story:
http://www.slate.com/id/2216798/
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:02am on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | The Fox News web site is losing the online wars, according to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. In his article "Online, Vox Populi Can Roar" published on March 30, 2009 he wrote:
"Fox has been losing the online wars. The new site would be linked to FoxNews.com, which drew 16 million unique visitors in February, trailing MSNBC.com (41 million visitors) and CNN.com (36 million).
Liberal outlets thrived during the last administration, when those who couldn't stand the president gravitated toward the strongest Bush critics. MSNBC gained in the ratings by moving sharply left, installing Air America's Rachel Maddow in the hour after Keith Olbermann last fall.
A right-leaning brand may be a similar asset in the Obama era. The Washington Times is creating a conservative opinion site, and last week announced that its newsroom is launching a syndicated show on Talk Radio Network, which carries such conservative hosts as Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 7:07pm on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | February 26, 2009: Fox News Channel has hired Michael Clemente as vice president of news. Clemente spent over 20 years at ABC News, most recently as executive producer of ABCNews.com and ABC News Now.
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