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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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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:41pm on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | On January 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that Fox News was the only network (broadcast or cable) to carry the homecoming speech of former President George W. Bush:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials sometimes let it be known that they stuck with Fox News for their informational needs. And on Tuesday, Fox News returned the favor, even as the rest of Washington remained gripped by Obama fever.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Fox News was the only major national TV outlet that carried a live telecast of former President Bush's homecoming speech to cheering supporters in Midland, Texas.
"Sometimes what I did wasn't popular," a smiling Bush told the crowd. "But that's OK. I always did what I thought was right."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:33pm on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 | A comment about Fox News Channel:
On December 19, 2008, Broadcasting and Cable magazine reported that Fox News was the top ranked cable television news channel in 2008:
The historical – and historically long – election season along with the ongoing financial crisis made 2008 a banner year for cable news. While broadcast networks saw little growth (ABC’s Nightline and NBC’s Nightly News were exceptions), cable was up double- and triple-digits in viewer totals.
Network ratings releases were filled with words like “transformational,” “record-breaking,” “dominant” and the ubiquitous “best year ever.” And in truth, all three networks can boast impressive gains in 2008.
In primetime, Fox News was up 41% in total viewers, averaging just over 2 million viewers. In news’ target demographic of 25- to 54-year-olds, the network averaged 502,000 viewers, a gain of 43%.
Fox News will finish the year as the most-watched cable news network—for the seventh consecutive year. The network is the No. 3 ranked basic-cable network in primetime, behind USA and ESPN. CNN is ranked 10th and MSNBC is ranked 22nd.
CNN posted gains of 72% in primetime for an average of 1.31 million viewers. For the demo, CNN averaged 463,000 viewers for a 91% increase.
MSNBC grew its primetime audience by 84% for an average of 926,000 viewers. In the demo, MSNBC averaged 368,000 viewers, a gain of 83%.
CNN was the most-watched network on Election Night (8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.), out-drawing all three broadcast networks.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:07pm on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | On November 24, 2008, New York Times reporter Brian Stelter wrote that Alan Colmes is breaking up with Sean Hannity at the Fox News Channel:
“Hannity & Colmes,” the longest-running program on the Fox News Channel, will soon be without Colmes.
Alan Colmes, 58, the liberal half of the 9 p.m. show, will leave his daily hosting duties at the end of the year, the network announced Monday.
While the network remained quiet about its plans for the political debate program, two people close to the network said that Sean Hannity, 46, Mr. Colmes’s conservative counterpart for the last 12 years, would become the sole host of the hour.
Mr. Colmes will remain at the network as a commentator and will develop a potential weekend program. He will also continue to host his weekday radio show, broadcast from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
“Hannity & Colmes,” which started on the day Fox News made its debut in 1996, was a creation of Roger Ailes, the network’s chairman and chief executive. Before Mr. Colmes was hired, the program was known internally as “Hannity and LTBD” (for Liberal to Be Determined).
The program now routinely ranks as the No. 2 program on cable news behind Fox's “The O’Reilly Factor,” which precedes it at 8 p.m. Bolstered by the presidential election, the program averaged 3.3 million viewers in October. Mr. Hannity signed a new contract with Fox News last month."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:51pm on Friday, November 21st, 2008 | On November 20, 2008, News Corporation announced that Roger Ailes will be staying at Fox News Channel. The 68-year-old founder of Fox News signed a five-year contract extension, just months after renowned blowhard Bill O’Reilly signed a new contract with the network.
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Maria Ramirez
Charleston, SC | Posted at 10:08am on Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Fox news is such crap, I viewed the vice presidential debate through Fox, out of family obligation, and was shocked how biased it is. The crazy part is that my mother in law actually argued that she didn't think Fox was biased!
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Mr. Sam
Dayton, Ohio | Posted at 10:17am on Monday, September 15th, 2008 | We have quit Fox news on TV. Tired of
the gals on there trying to show all
of their legs, etc. Not necessary
for family viewing.
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Deborah
New Jersey | Posted at 12:02pm on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | Four words, "The Eagle is Landing".
The bias is unbelievably obvious and over hyped, its an obnoxious way to cover the "news". It is entertainment not news. Listen to the BBC or NPR if you want true news.
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