There is an item today on Rupert Murdoch’s The Fox Nation that links to an article in Murdoch’s English newspaper, The Sun. The Sun’s report concerns Dutch victims of criminal vandals who are stealing and destroying automobiles. What sets this apart from conventional crimes is that the perpetrators have singled out owners of Smart Cars [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Jul 30
Sarah Palin’s Radio Career Canceled Before It Begins
Earlier this week there was some industry speculation that Sarah Palin was shopping herself around for a talk radio gig. But before you can say “You Betcha” her hopes of radio stardom were quickly dashed. Broadcasting & Cable:“While you might assume Palin would be a better fit for conservative radio than the less partisan world [...]
Jul 29
Glenn Beck: Fox News Evangelist Of The Coming Obama-Pocalypse
Glenn Beck’s unique brand of asylum-spawned demagoguery has drawn comparisons to some notable cranks in history and fiction. Most often he has been likened to either the 1930′s fascist radio priest, Father Coughlin, or to the prototypical, paranoia-crazed tele-pundit, Howard Beale, from the film “Network.” While both of those models contain poignant resemblances to Beck, [...]
Jul 28
Neil Cavuto’s Cable Clinic And Medical Tourism Scam
Neil Cavuto, Fox News VP and host of “Your World”, has a consistent record of misrepresenting the facts of pretty much any issue he addresses. Whether it’s the economy, national security, climate change, etc., you can rely on his determination to construct the most absurd and untrue arguments to advance his partisan agenda. [...]
Jul 26
All You Need To Know About Rush Limbaugh
In another in a series of Fox News PR events for Republican dickwads, Greta Van Susteran hosted Rush Limbaugh, giving him two days of airtime on her show. There is a great deal of inane banter to be mined from this auto-neurotic strokefest, but I’ll just focus on one brief segment wherein Van Susteran sought [...]
Jul 23
Fox Nation Declares Victory: Health Care Edition
For the third time Fox Nation is declaring victory. For the third time they have done nothing for which they can claim any credit. And, as usual, there is no evidence that the victory they claim actually occurred. Fox Nation has decided to make a habit of these “Mission Accomplished” moments. That stance in and [...]
Jul 22
Congressional Vets Condemn Fox News Analyst Ralph Peters
A few days ago, Fox News military analyst Ralph Peters appeared on the network to discuss PFC Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier captured by the Taliban. In the course of the interview Peters, acting as judge and jury, declared that Bergdahl was a liar, a deserter, and that “the Taliban can save us a lot [...]
Jul 18
Walter Cronkite On Fox News: Beyond Conservative
There are really very few times when the phrase “the end of an era” is actually true. But in the case of Walter Cronkite, it could not be more appropriate. He presided over so many of the most significant events of the latter half of the twentieth century that it almost seems as if he [...]
Jul 18
Happy Birthday, News Corpse
Another year has come and gone And now you have reached five And though at times is has been hard you’ve managed to survive. If there is one thing that is sure Along the path we went We no longer bear the shame Of an idiotic President Woo Hoo, Baby!
Jul 16
Fox Nation Declares Victory: Susan Roesgen Edition
In yet another example of the Fox Nation’s embarrassing unprofessionalism and arrogance, they are once again claiming victory for something they had absolutely nothing to do with. On this occasion they are suffering from the delusion that they are responsible for CNN not renewing the contract of reporter Susan Roesgen. In last April’s Tea Parties, [...]
Jul 15
Al Franken, Sonia Sotomayor, and Perry Mason
In today’s Senate hearings on the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Sen. Al Franken sparked a mystery that has consumed Washington and beyond. Both Sotomayor and Franken were fans of the 1960′s version of Law and Order, “The Perry Mason Show.” Throughout its run, Mason, a defense attorney, had lost only a [...]
Jul 15
Media Reform Advances Courtesy Of The Economy
One of the biggest contributors to the woeful state of modern media is the extent to which media companies have consolidated into giant conglomerates with near monopoly power. Some of these corporations control majorities of communications enterprises in numerous markets nationwide. It has long been a goal of media reform activists to bring about greater [...]
Jul 15
Gov. Sanford’s Treatment By The Liberal Media
Here are a few examples of how the so-called “liberal” media rushed to smear Republican Gov. Mark Sanford after he surfaced from his hike in Appalachia …er… vacation in South America …er… tryst with his Argentinian mistress. These are emails sent to Sanford to solicit him for interviews. Griff Jenkins of Fox News “Having known [...]
Jul 08
Rupert Murdoch Running Criminal News Enterprise?
The Guardian has a story that simply must be read: Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that [...]
