Media Matters has obtained a leaked memo from Fox News, where an executive advises producers to use GOP-pollster approved language during their newscast: 1) Please use the term “government-run health insurance” or, when brevity is a concern, “government option,” whenever possible. 2) When it is necessary to use the term “public option” (which is, after […]
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Tomorrow’s Fox News Reports Today.
Via Andrew Sullivan, we get this amusing clip of a reporter for a Texas television news program, amazed at the way some San Franciscans are enjoying themselves as they float in McCovey Cove awaiting World Series batting practice. “They’re smoking weed!” he says again and again: View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video. They all think […]
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The Fox News Tribe.
Paul Waldman considers conservatives’ tribalism: If you watch cable news, you probably know the story of Jack Cassell, the Florida doctor who demonstrated his displeasure with the recently passed health-care reform by posting a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere.” Never mind that Cassell knew nothing […]
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The Fox News Tribe
More than ever, conservatives are working to cast liberals as the other.
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Fox and Foes
The Fox debacle isn’t a tale of media versus government — it’s about a television network trying to rewrite journalism’s rules.
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Why Journalists Are Defending FOX News.
Let’s be clear: FOX News is a GOP opposition research dump more than it is a news organization. They reprint Republican press releases verbatim, they have no compunction about airing stories without having verified the information in them, they unabashedly promoted — not covered — the anti-Obama protests this year, and their coverage of the […]
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The Point Of That Fox News Ad.
FOX News took out a full page ad today in several newspapers today asking how their competitors could have “missed” the 9/12 protest in Washington DC. Of course, they didn’t “miss” it — the march got considerably more attention than larger ones arranged by liberals in the past. The point of the ad, I suspect, […]
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FOX NEWS: FAIR, BALANCED, AND OBJECTIVELY ANTI-TEA.
I don’t want to focus too much on the individuals at yesterday’s tea parties. Picking crazies from the crowd was shoddy practice when lefties were protesting the Iraq War and it’s no better when conservatives are wasting oolong because they don’t like being taxed. The crazies at the front of the crowd, however, are a […]
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STAY CLASSY FOX NEWS, STAY CLASSY.
STAY CLASSY FOX NEWS, STAY CLASSY. Fox News apparently thinks that Katie Couric‘s trip to Iraq is completely irresponsible because she has kids: I would say the same thing if this were a man journalist going out there, a male anchor, because when you look at the choice she’s making, she’s saying my ratings are […]
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Fox News Democrats
Alex Koppelman has a smart piece over at Salon detailing the many ways in which Fox News uses Democrats to bash, harm, or misrepresent the Democratic Party. Take, for example, the scary Democrats. Think about frequent guests like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., both big-city liberals, or Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Vegan […]
