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Fairleigh Dickinson PublicMind Poll Shows Fox News Viewers Less Informed on Major News Stories
The poll surveyed 612 adult residents of New Jersey (insert Snooki joke here), asking them where they got their news from in the previous week and then a handful of questions about current events. (The survey was taken last month, so the current Egyptian protests that broke out in recent days could not have added to the confusion). Respondents were given 12 possible news options: NPR, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , a Sunday morning political news show, a national newspaper like the New York Times or USA Today , a political blog or news website, a national news broadcast, CNN, MSNBC, a talk radio show, a local newspaper, a local television news broadcast and Fox News.
Bill Nye on Fox: "There's A Lot More Science Behind" Idea Of Global Warming Creating Extreme Weather "Than Saying It's Not" | Media Matters for America
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Rupert Murdoch , James Murdoch and their former editor Andy Coulson all face embarrassing new allegations of dishonesty and cover-up after the publication of an explosive letter written by the News of the World's disgraced royal correspondent, Clive Goodman . In the letter, which was written four years ago but published only on Tuesday, Goodman claims that phone hacking was "widely discussed" at editorial meetings at the paper until Coulson himself banned further references to it; that Coulson offered to let him keep his job if he agreed not to implicate the paper in hacking when he came to court; and that his own hacking was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of other senior journalists, whom he named.
Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up | Media | guardian.co.uk
By now, there's no question in anyone's mind that the tragic Norway shootings are the work of a right-wing extremist who appears to at least have been influenced by web sites like StormFront.org, among others. But watch these Fox talkers avoid it completely, even in the beginning, where they open up by asking if this can "really be compared to the Oklahoma City bombings." Not only do they deny it, they manage to turn everything on its head to portray the guy as someone with a deep fear of Islamic extremists.
Fox News Refuses To Acknowledge Norway Shooter's Right-Wing Beliefs | Crooks and Liars
Fox News claims anti-fees protests were "rebellion against big government" | Left Foot Forward
Those who are familiar with Rupert Murdoch’s US news channel Fox News will notice that the conservative-leaning television channel often provides a right-wing outlook on current events.
Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers.
Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Regulators Reject Proposal That Would Bring Fox-Style News to Canada
As America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades -- against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News -- fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of Wisconsin border.GOING GREEN: How News Corp. Cashes In On Both Sides Of The Climate Fight | Media Matters for America
"Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats," Rupert Murdoch declared in a 2007 speech announcing News Corp.'
It was George Orwell, who first coined the term “memory hole,” in his classic novel 1984 .
Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | The Raw Story
Fox News executive admits his attempt to link Obama to socialism was a lie | Video Cafe
During the 2008 presidential campaign one Fox News executive repeatedly tried to smear Barack Obama with charges of "socialism." Liberal watchdog group Media Matters has uncovered audio that indicates Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon was just engaging in what he called "mischievous speculation."
Hopefully this means that television viewers are getting tired of brazenly biased news coverage that foments division, spreads disinformation, and insults the intelligence of the audience. The past year has seen some of the most blatant propagandizing by the disreputable crew at Fox. They were caught deliberately lying about global warming and health care . They were exposed for donating millions of dollars to right-wing politicos. Their role in inciting violence became a headline story itself. An academic study proved that the more you watch Fox News the stupider you get .
Daily Kos: Fox News: Biggest Ratings Loser Of The New Year - Glenn Beck Leads The Way Down
"We Were a Stalin-esque Mouthpiece for Bush" -- Fox News Insider | | AlterNet
Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”A Democratic Fox News analyst called for the assassination of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Speaking on the Fox Business show "Follow The Money" on Monday, Bob Beckel excoriated Assange for leaking the State Department cables that have roiled the world in the past week, and said that American special forces should kill him. "A dead man can't leak stuff," Beckel said.