{"id":5294,"date":"2011-08-27T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2011-08-27T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T17:53:20","slug":"fox-nations-non-coverage-of-hurricane-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation’s (Non) Coverage Of Hurricane Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s midday Saturday, August 27, 2011, and Hurricane Irene has already come ashore in North Carolina. Fox Nation presently has this featured at the top of their page:<\/p>\n

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What’s interesting about that is that there isn’t one single update to follow on the web site. Not one story about Hurricane Irene today.<\/p>\n

The Fox Nationalists do have a couple of stories from yesterday that are tangentially about the hurricane, but are more political than anything else. Both promote the typically cold-hearted perspective of Republican leaders. Here are the headlines:<\/p>\n

Eric Cantor: Hurricane Relief Spending Means Cuts Need to Happen Elsewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ron Paul: No FEMA Response Necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s it. No updates. No alerts. No precautionary announcements. No guidance to assistance providers. Nothing but affirmation of the Randian philosophy that you’re on your own, pal – good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s midday Saturday, August 27, 2011, and Hurricane Irene has already come ashore in North Carolina. Fox Nation presently has this featured at the top of their page: What’s interesting about that is that there isn’t one single update to follow on the web site. Not one story about Hurricane Irene today. The Fox Nationalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[741,527,165],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-eric-cantor","tag-fox-nation","tag-ron-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1no","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5291,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5291","url_meta":{"origin":5294,"position":0},"title":"Small Government – Small Hearts: The GOP Response To Hurricane Irene","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/27\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a storm advancing on the east coast of the United States of historic proportions. 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