Glenn Beck Links Violent Gang Fight to Rise of Atheism. Soros rips Fox News, Murdoch: 'It has imported the methods of George Orwell, you know, newspeak' May God Have Mercy On Your Soul. Kids In The Hall - Communism. Fox & Friends Segment Replaces SOTU Audience Laughter And Applause With Cricket Sound Effects. Bias at Fox News? The Bill Sammon memos - latimes.com. Love it or hate it, Fox News has shaken up the media establishment and achieved financial success by airing the views of strident conservative pundits.
Yet while the network has never made any bones about the political slant of opinion shows hosted by the likes of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly, executives often claim that its news coverage is "fair and balanced. " A memo revealed this week by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters calls that into question. The first time Media Matters unveiled a leaked e-mail from Bill Sammon, Fox News' Washington managing editor, it was hardly worthy of mention. On Dec. 9 the group's website revealed that Sammon had instructed reporters to avoid the phrase "public option" when referring to a proposed government-sponsored healthcare plan.
Liberal bloggers were furious, but few mainstream journalists could muster much outrage. Arguments over semantics and perceived bias are commonplace and seldom fruitful. Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid. December 14, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources.
What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation. So the more you watch, the less you know. In eight of the nine questions below, Fox News placed first in the percentage of those who were misinformed (they placed second in the question on TARP). The conclusion is inescapable. By the way, the rest of the media was not blameless. The conclusions in this study need to be disseminated as broadly as possible. This is not an isolated review of Fox’s performance. Video - Breaking News Videos. g2vjP.jpg (JPEG Image, 655x6420 pixels) - Scaled (12. Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story.
By David EdwardsFriday, November 26, 2010 13:32 EDT UPDATE: Editors scrub article, comments from site It was George Orwell, who first coined the term “memory hole,” in his classic novel 1984. For Winston, the book’s main character, his full-time job with the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite history, spiriting away the inconvenient details. Someone like Winston appears to be hard at work behind the scenes at Fox Nation.
This morning, an article and comment thread related to a piece of satire the site and its readers took seriously, went missing. The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone. Some of the comments were preserved by Raw Story in the story below. For a news outlet to retain credibility, standard industry procedure dictates that reporters and editors not only correct mistakes, but acknowledge them as well. Original report follows… Janerogers wrote: OK. Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!: Fox News Channel Targets A Little Girl.