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Girl gone wild thank God

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Did the legal battle between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers suddenly... more

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Sesame Street mocks Fox News with "Pox News," conservative blogger not amused

It's Sesame Street's 40th anniversary and while Google is celebrating with Big Bird's feet, we are more interested... more

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Rush Limbaugh says Fox News is ‘conservative media’

For weeks now, Fox News has been vigorously objecting to the Obama administration’s contention that the network often acts... more

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Not This Again: Fox Newsers Confuse Obama and Osama

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/not-this-again-fox-newsers-confuse-obama-and-osama/ Remember during the lead-up to the 2008... more

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Jon Stewart takes Fox News Apart

If you never watch another Daily Show, this clip is a must see: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-29-2009/for-fox-sake-

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Thomas Frank: Obama is right about Fox News

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to... more

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Glenn Beck vs. Chris Wallace

There is no difference between them.

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FOX News is on a Witch Hunt

FOX News is on a witch hunt, aimed at destroying the Obama administration and the progressive movement. Theyve already succeeded... more

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Glenn Beck falsely accused Reid of lying about public support for public option

Following reports that Senate leaders will include a public option in health care legislation, on Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck falsely suggested that only "35 percent of the population" supported a public option and accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of lying when he said, in co-host Gretchen Carlson's words, "the public wants this." In fact, polling consistently shows broad support for the public option, and the Fox News poll Beck is presumably referencing did not ask specifically about a public option...

Numerous recent polls on public option found widespread support

Wash. Post/ABC poll: 57 percent support government plan "to compete with private health insurance plans." When respondents were asked in an October 15-18 Washington Post/ABC News poll whether they would "support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans," 57 percent said they supported the plan.

CNN/Opinion Research: 61 percent favor creating public option "administered by the federal government." When respondents were asked in an October 16-18 CNN/Opinion Research poll whether they "favor or oppose creating a public health insurance option administered by the federal government that would compete with plans offered by private health insurance companies," 61 percent said they favored the plan.

CBS News: 62 percent favor government offering "a government administered health insurance plan." When respondents were asked in an October 5-8 CBS News poll whether they would "favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get -- that would compete with private health insurance plans," 62 percent said they would support the plan.

Kaiser Family Foundation: 57 percent favor "[c]reating a government-administered public health insurance option." When respondents were asked in an October 8-15 Kaiser Family Foundation poll whether they favored "[c]reating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans," 57 percent said they favored such a plan.

USA Today/Gallup: 50 percent support a "public, government-run insurance plan." When respondents were asked in an October 16-19 USA Today/Gallup poll, "If Congress passes a healthcare bill, do you think it should or should not include a public, government-run insurance plan to compete with plans offered by private insurance companies?" 50 percent said they thought the bill should have the plan.

Recent Fox News poll did not ask about public option

Fox News poll: 35 percent favor "reform legislation being considered." A Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll released October 15 asked respondents, "Based on what you know about the health care reform legislation being considered right now, do you favor or oppose the plan?" Thirty-five percent said they favored "the plan," 54 percent opposed, and 10 percent said they did not know.

Poll was conducted before Reid's compromise proposal was "being considered" by the public. The Fox News poll asked respondents whether they favored or opposed "the health care reform legislation being considered right now." The poll did not specify which of "the health care reform legislation being considered" it was referring to, and at the time, there were at least three different proposed health care reform measures being considered by Congress. At the time the Fox News poll was conducted, Reid had not yet announced his proposal to include a public option in the forthcoming Senate compromise bill.

Follow link to Media Matters for America for more information on Beck's dishonesty.Following reports that Senate leaders will include a public option in health care legislation, on Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck... more

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Obama's war on Fox risk worth taking

Obama's war on Fox is a calculated risk that is worth taking. Yet listening to the Sunday talking heads one would think Obama... more

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Reporter left Fox News because she was ‘uncomfortable’ with Glenn Beck

On CNN’s Reliable Sources segment, Washington Post reporter Howie Kurtz hosted Jane Hall, associate professor in the School... more

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Why Fox News is Un-American

Last week, when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage.

Consider Fox's Web story on the episode. It quotes five people. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn's criticisms or saying that it could make sense for Obama to challenge the network's power. It's a textbook example of a biased journalism. (Click here to follow Jacob Weisberg.)

If you were watching Fox News Channel, you saw the familiar roster of platinum pundettes and anchor androids reciting the same soundbites: this was Obama's version of Nixon's enemies list, the rest of the news media is in Obama's corner, Obama should get back to governing, and so on. On The O'Reilly Factor, Alan Colmes, the network's weak, battered house liberal, mumbled semi-agreement while "Doctor" Monica Crowley and Bill O'Reilly lit up the scoreboard with these talking points.

Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" that, when presented, is brushed off and ignored.

There is no need to get bogged down in this phony debate, which itself constitutes an abuse of the fair-mindedness of the rest of the media. One glance at Fox's Web site or five minutes' random viewing of the channel at any hour of the day demonstrates its all-pervasive slant. The lefty documentary Outfoxed spent a lot of time mustering evidence that Fox managers order reporters to take the Republican side. But after 13 years under Roger Ailes, Fox employees skew news right as instinctively as fish swim.

Rather than in any way maturing, Fox has in recent months become more boisterous and demagogic. Fox sponsored as much as it covered the anti-Obama "tea parties" this summer. Its "fact checking" about the president's health-care proposal is provided by Karl Rove. And weepy Glenn Beck has begun to exhibit a Strangelovean concern about government invading our bloodstream by vaccinating people for swine flu. With this misinformation campaign, Fox stands to become the first network to actively try to kill its viewers.

That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.

What's most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in many other countries that do have a free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American, so much so that he has little choice but go on denying what he's doing as he does it. For Murdoch, Ailes, and company, "fair and balanced" is a necessary lie. To admit that their coverage is slanted by design would violate the American understanding of the media's role in democracy and our idea of what constitutes fair play. But it's a demonstrable deceit that no longer deserves equal time.

Whether the White House engages with Fox is a tactical political question. Whether we journalistLast week, when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded... more

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Sean Hannity Tries To Provoke Culture War Over NYC Subway Atheist Ads

During his Fox News show on Tuesday night, right-wing pundit Sean Hannity attacked a new ad campaign soon to be appearing in New... more

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Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview

The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an... more

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Obama's right. It's time to stop taking the network's skewed news seriously.

Take a look at Fox's own Web story on the episode. It begins by quoting a Fox News senior vice president named Michael Clemente, who says: "It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming. It seems self-serving on their part." Then it quotes David Gergen, the gravelly voice of Washington's conventional wisdom, who says the attack diminishes President Obama and works to Fox's benefit. Then we hear from Tony Blankley, Newt Gingrich's former press secretary and a frequent Fox contributor, who agrees that criticizing Fox makes no sense: "Fox has an audience of not just conservatives. They've got liberals and moderates who watch too." Then a White House correspondent for Politico echoes the claim that the controversy will boost Fox's ratings. Then comes an old quote from Fox anchor Chris Wallace, who calls Obama's team "the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington." Then the story's anonymous author cites a joke Obama made at the White House Correspondents Dinner as evidence "that Fox News has gotten under his skin." Finally, the piece cites a Pew study that suggested that while Fox was equally negative about John McCain and Obama during the last six weeks of the 2008 campaign, CNN was more negative about McCain.

Let's do a quick study of our own. Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn's criticisms or saying that it could make sense, morally or politically, for Obama to challenge the network's power. It's a textbook example of a biased news story.

If you were watching Fox News Channel, you saw the familiar roster of platinum pundettes and anchor androids reciting the same sound bites: criticizing Fox was Obama's version of Nixon's enemies list, the rest of the news media are in Obama's corner, Obama should get back to governing, Fox opinion shows are different from its news shows, it's always dumb to go after the press. On The O'Reilly Factor on Oct. 13, the evanescent Alan Colmes, the network's weak, battered house liberal, mumbled semi-agreement while "Doctor" Monica Crowley and Bill O'Reilly lit up the scoreboard with the familiar talking points.

Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity and take pains not to load the dice in its own favor. At any other network, accusation of bias might even lead to some soul-searching and behavioral adjustment. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" and "proof," which when presented is brushed off and ignored.Take a look at Fox's own Web story on the episode. It begins by quoting a Fox News senior vice president named Michael... more