LA Times: Fox drops the ball in Haiti coverage
January 15, 2010 9:19 am ET by Media Matters staff
From a January 15 LA Times article by James Rainey:
Why dwell on one of our closest hemispheric neighbors in its hour of dire need, when -- like both Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck -- you can conduct prolonged, frothy promotional interviews with Fox's newest contributor, Sarah Palin?
Why focus on all that misery, if, like Hannity on Wednesday, you can engage conservative virago Michelle Malkin in a soaring conversation about the Obama administration's "culture of corruption."
Bill O'Reilly played his no-Haiti card too, managing a gripping discussion Wednesday with Bo Derek about the threat to the West's wild horses. Not to mention those whales being hunted by the Japanese in the Southern Ocean.
Cable operator MSNBC couldn't match CNN's boots-on-the-rubble immediacy either. NBC anchor Brian Williams, morning host Ann Curry and others were holed up at the Port-au-Prince airport Wednesday evening because of security concerns, before getting into the city Thursday to cover the story more directly.
But at least the cable affiliate did its best to tell the story from outside the epicenter. It dedicated more than two hours to the quake in its three major prime-time shows, compared with less than seven minutes presented by Fox's biggest stars Wednesday night, according to the liberal media watchdog, Media Matters.
Previously:
Top Fox News Programs Devote Scant Coverage to Haiti
O'Reilly Ignores Haiti To Cover Whaling, Wild Horses And Jon Stewart
Fox Promotes Its Earthquake Coverage While Largely Ignoring It On Its Top-Rated Shows
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FOX Propaganda? Your fellow media outlets are not above pointing out when you have failed, as the LA Times demonstrates. At some point, Mr. Murdoch is going to realize he could be making more money with a different format, so if I worked at FOX, I'd be polishing up my resume.
i could be wrong, but i suspect you might mean giving liberal or so called progressive pundits their own shows... i don't know murdoch's political ideology, perhaps he's a conservative, but his business ideology is profit... and if liberal talk shows made money, air america would not have filed for bankruptcy and ultimately sold, and liberal talk radio would be more successful in general...
as for fox news' employees updating their resumes, i don't know what's happening off-camera... but on-camera there has been more attrition from other networks to fox news than away from...
Thought a few of those nuggets would show up here.
What I find telling is that Bill'O is obviously a liberal environmentalist.
Bill O'Reilly played his no-Haiti card too, managing a gripping discussion Wednesday with Bo Derek about the threat to the West's wild horses. Not to mention those whales being hunted by the Japanese in the Southern Ocean.
I guess sometimes you just never know.
I guess sometimes you just never know.
Not sure why, since there isn't a negative comment.
Or, at least, I don't take PLRL as a negative comment.
There should be "NO" excuses for FoxNews "NOT" reporting the generous help that America and other Countries have done for Haiti during the first 72 Hours - period. My goodness, Numerous Countries from around the World help Haiti and America led the effort. This is HUGE!!!
Instead, FoxNews did their usual thing of attacking Pres. Obama and Democrats during these trying times in Haiti as "NEWS" about Haiti scrolled at the bottom of the screen. Umph, umph, umph. Just "shameful".
By the way, it's PLRR, but it's no swet if it gets done wrong.
See the connection here?
Them people were looking for "OBAMA DOLLARS"
you remimber that poor black women from Detroit, Beck keeps playing on his show, she was just looking for " OBAMA DOLLARS"
"...less than seven minutes presented by Fox's biggest stars Wednesday night..."
But thanks for coming out.