REPORT: Top Fox News programs devote scant coverage to Haiti earthquake
On January 13, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009 -- The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck -- devoted a combined total of less than 7 minutes of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti, instead choosing to air such things as Beck's hour-long interview with Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly's discussion of Comedy Central host Jon Stewart, and Sean Hannity's advocacy for Massachusetts candidate Scott Brown's Senate campaign. By contrast, the content of MSNBC's three top-rated shows underscored the significance of the Haiti disaster; Countdown, The Rachel Maddow Show, and Hardball devoted a total of more than two hours to the earthquake.
MSNBC's top programs provide more than 18 times as much coverage of Haiti earthquake as Fox News' top shows
The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009, combined to devote a total of 6 minutes, 41 seconds of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti. Among the things they chose to air instead were Beck's interview with Palin -- to which he devoted nearly his entire show -- Hannity's continued advocacy for Brown; and O'Reilly's discussion of Stewart. Countdown, The Rachel Maddow Show, and Hardball, MSNBC's three top-rated shows, devoted 2 hours, 2 minutes and 33 seconds to the earthquake -- more than 18 times the coverage devoted by Fox News' top three shows. Other Fox News shows -- such as Special Report with Bret Baier and The Fox Report with Shepard Smith -- did devote extensive coverage to the earthquake.


Fox News' three top-rated programs largely ignored earthquake
According to a Media Matters review, O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck devoted only 6 minutes and 41 seconds of coverage to the earthquake on their January 13 editions.
Glenn Beck
|
Segment start |
Segment end |
Time |
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5:29:11 |
5:29:48 |
37 seconds |
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Total |
37 seconds |
The O'Reilly Factor
|
Segment start |
Segment end |
Time |
|
8:00:20 |
8:00:43 |
23 seconds |
|
8:01:33 |
8:04:06 |
2 minutes 33 seconds |
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Total |
2 minutes 56 seconds |
Hannity
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Segment start |
Segment end |
Time |
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9:00:11 |
9:02:17 |
2 minutes 6 seconds |
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9:30:10 |
9:31:04 |
54 seconds |
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9:39:40 |
9:39:48 |
8 seconds |
|
Total |
3 minutes 8 seconds |
By contrast, MSNBC's three top-rated programs provided extensive earthquake coverage
A Media Matters review finds that MSNBC aired 2 hours, 2 minutes and 33 seconds of earthquake coverage on the January 13 editions of Hardball (7 p.m.), Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show.
Hardball
-- 7
p.m. edition
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Segment start |
Segment end |
Time |
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7:00:15 |
7:12:10 |
11 minutes 55 seconds |
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7:15:25 |
7:22:39 |
7 minutes 14 seconds |
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7:25:48 |
7:36:35 |
10 minutes 47 seconds |
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7:53:43 |
8:00:22 |
6 minutes 39 seconds |
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Total |
|
36 minutes 35 seconds |
Countdown
with Keith Olbermann
|
Segment start |
Segment end |
Time |
|
8:00:23 |
8:18:15 |
17 minutes 52 seconds |
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8:20:20 |
8:25:21 |
5 minutes 1 second |
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8:26:46 |
8:33:23 |
6 minutes 37 seconds |
|
8:36:56 |
8:38:42 |
1 minute 46 seconds |
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8:41:46 |
8:45:00 |
3 minutes 14 seconds |
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8:47:05 |
8:49:20 |
2 minutes 15 seconds |
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8:50:55 |
8:52:02 |
1 minute 7 seconds |
|
8:55:04 |
9:00:15 |
5 minutes 11 seconds |
|
Total |
43 minutes 3 seconds |
The
Rachel Maddow Show
|
Segment start |
Segment end |
Time |
|
9:00:20 |
9:12:56 |
12 minutes 36 seconds |
|
9:14:00 |
9:15:15 |
1 minute 15 seconds |
|
9:17:39 |
9:29:15 |
11 minutes 36 seconds |
|
9:32:47 |
9:43:32 |
10 minutes 45 seconds |
|
9:46:26 |
9:48:53 |
2 minutes 27 seconds |
|
9:50:58 |
9:51:09 |
11 seconds |
|
9:52:43 |
9:55:50 |
3 minutes 7 seconds |
|
9:59:02 |
10:00:00 |
58 seconds |
|
Total |
42 minutes 55 seconds |
[All times in charts are Eastern time.]
Drew Sandquist contributed to this item.















So they pimp Sarah Palin and the Massachusetts Republican nominee instead. No surprise.
I'm waiting for Fox Noise to start calling on their wingnut teabager pinhead moronic fanbase to start hating Hati because US tax dollars are now going to Hati to rescue people who aren't white, don't have oil wells, and aren't giving no-bid contracts to Haliburton.
I'm taking bets on who will be the next NeoCon Nutcase to spew hatred against Hatians. Here's the short list:
TheAdamsAppleThatWalksLikeAWoman Coulter
Glen Beck
Bill O'Mygodhesinsane
Rush Limpdick
And we can't forget Hannity Insanity.
But your winner, who spewed hate against Hatians on the very day they got hit with an earthquake, is none other:
Pat Robinson.
Really. According to Websters Dictionary, the word racist is defined as a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others. It is a travesty that you would use the Haitian tragedy to sling tired worn-out lies, and it is rather... sigh...old. Propagandists claiming racism at every turn is like the little boy who cried wolf! When you really DO find a racist, no one is going to pay any attention. Here a racist, there a racist, everywhere a racist racist...It's rather like the boogeyman under the bed. Seriously.
Any legit cable news channel was doing the right thing. The illegitimate one was not.
Those two themes are important to Fox right now. That much I can see.
Haiti is an inconvenient distraction at this moment. A dilemma.
Now is when Fox will use their "distinction" between news and opinion programming to "balance" out their coverage to suit their immediate agenda of cashing in on Sarah, wresting Kennedy's old seat away from the Democrats, and covering the Haiti tragedy.
Sarcasm, naturally. I am not surprised by this revelation whatsoever. People at Fox always criticize the left for being a bunch of mean-spirited people with nothing good to say but Bill, guess what!? You've been contradicted by none other than yourself.
..and i'm sure they didn't want to upset their regular viewers who wouldn't be used to seeing so many persons of color on their programs..
the signs of the faux news supported teabaggers..the rants of the becks or o'riley's should be enough evidence for any reasonable person to judge..
while westla makes a valid and accurate point as to the reasons behind the lack of coverage..i stand by my claim to a more basic..and disturbing reason..
Fairlib,
Not every progressive plays the race card unless it is needed. Which I have seen people on each view spectrum lean towards. I just see and hear it more from the people who say that they are not.
Example: Rush Limbaugh
And I am no expert on Limbaugh but I do know that at least some of the claims of racism directed at him are bogus, the McNabb issue for example. I do know that his MO is to instigate and incite and he is quite good at it. Air America was equally vicious.
It is equal on both sides, but when it is needed and people have their opinion about someone, you can not change their mind, so just let it be. Unless you know it to be a flat out lie.
Nope, only the racists get that. Jeter, right on, wesley to name a few I have no problem with because they tend to bring facts to the table that back up anything they state. Bigots like you on the other hand never back up what you say. Y'all just throw out insult after insult and then sulk when someone like me points out how bigoted your factless rant is. Calling me a bigot for pointing out your bigotry is just icing on the cake...
if you really believe they is no racial element to faux news..and it's lack of coverage of the events in Haiti..i'm sure that more folks than just me would be interested in hearing your argument..
if you really believe they is no racial element to faux news..and it's lack of coverage of the events in Haiti..i'm sure that more folks than just me would be interested in hearing your argument..
I just love it when racists caught in the act of racism use that claim to try and cover up their intense hatred of minorities.
As I said above, and personalities aside, my general beef with msnbc is that they too obviously push a one-sided agenda. Like the lineup on Fox, msnbc's lineup is full of idealogues, pressing their causes. Again like fox, its entertainment, not a credible news outlet.
It doesn't bother me that Fox's most popular programs are anchored by conservatives, or that they cover the issues of the day from a conservative perspective. That's what an opinion program is supposed to be. What bothers me about Fox is that they don't deal in reality. They distort, they mislead, and they flat out lie. Not to mention the fact that they shamelessly promote the tea party protests, most notably the 9/12 project. I have never seen any MSNBC personality offer free on-air promos to any anti-war protest or rallies for liberal causes.
FOX - Promoted the Tea Parties, which are nothing but a gigantic nutjob circle jerk.
There's the difference.
Fox actually lets libs come on and present their own points of view. And when they play dodge ball, they get interrupted.
I guess you forget Chris matthews and his tingly feeling in his biased coverage of the election. Even Tom Brokaw couldn't take it and had both him and olbermann bounced from the coverage. He couldn't stand working with those 2 hacks.
An example of fauxnews character, hannity claims water boarding is not torture. olbermann challenges him. Hannity never responds.
liz cheyneys new fake think tankruns and ad that says MSNBC doesn't want to talk about the issues. maddow invites her to her show, and what does wimpy liz do? She goes on the hannity punk show.
This is the chracter of a network that creates stories to "report" on.
But you defend them?
I think you are missing the point. The argument has been made that Fox preaches their point of view largely through provable dis-information, while MSNBC preaches their point of view largely through the provable.
If you dispute that, please make your argument - and back it up with facts.
As a regular watcher of FOX and frequent viewer of CNN, I would like to see, for once, all this "provable dis-information" that FOX supposedly dispenses. I read and hear that claim every day, but have yet to see the proof.
When you get a minute, could you please post a link or two for me, that proves that FOX uses "provable dis-information."
FWIW, I double-check things I hear from any source, to try to determine the truth of the report. I just haven't been able to find the "provable dis-information" that you know about.
Thanks.
It's not possible for someone with half a brain to actively search out misinformation from FoxNews and not find it - it's easy to find.
So, do you not really want to find it, or are you incapable of doing so?
In either case, it doesn't speak well of you.
You're correct, Uberdouche and Rachel do once in a while criticize Obama for one thing or another. But it's always and only to further a left wing agenda. When they're not defending him, they're trying to force his hand further to the left, to comply with their agenda. That's exactly why they're not credible newsmen/women. I like Maddow. Dont' like the other twit. But neither attempts to objectively report both sides of any debate. They're spokesmen for the far left. no more, and, and at least in the case of Rachel, no less.
Someone could give the perfect answer or solution to you, and you would still come up with something to complain about
Why are you here?
To not be convinced?
Hardball ranted continually against Bill Clinton/Hillary Clinton and helped pushed the lies about Al Gore. That doesn't sound like a "librul' leaning station to me,a mouthpiece of the Democractic party. Phil Donuhue(top rated show on MSNBC)was fired because he wouldn't tow the Bush administrations line about Iraq. And no station has explained or taken responsibility for airing retired Generals posing as objective military analyst while actually spouting Pentagon feed propaganda in the runup and aftermath of our invasion of Iraq. Is your memory that short or are you just ignoring that Bush was a Republican and MSNBC was in the thick of pushing his lies. I can still hear Chris "Tweety " Matthews fawning over how magnificent George looked in his flight suit bulge and all. Only the crazies on the "left" he drooled, could hate him. He's a womens president the mouthpiece of the democrats(sic)continued. MSNBC biased? If you think to the left your political compass is skewered.
MSNBC host a three hour morning show hosted by a Conservative Republican, where is the equivalent on Fox? MSNBC does have many Republicans on their shows. Pat Buchannan,Christe,Michelle Bernanrd,Perkins,and even birthers and gun nuts rool off the top of my head. But you pick 2 shows with host that lean center left as proof the whole station is biased. BS.
The point is you can't give one example of KO, RM misleading their audience by denying the other side of an argument or using documents from the Democractic Party and reporting them as their own(something Fox has been caught doing many times and not just on their opinion shows but in their fake news broadcast). Your argument is just a smokescreen an attempt to throw dust and distract when you have no real argument. You don't like MSNBC don't watch but to compare them to Fox is just pure nonsense. Michelle Bachmann was exposed as a loon on Hardball.Was it a bias for Matthews to air her then question about how ridiculous she was? So she goes over to Faux to air her BS unobstructed. Why because they are "fair and balanced?" You and i both no that is a lie. Just like Sarah Palin choose Faux because they practice real journalism. Faux is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the republican party,the admitted station of the opposition and their lack of practicing journalism refelcts that in their reporting. That to me is fundamentally different than what KO does or RM and MSNBC . But then the article was about Fauxs lack of reporting on a castrophe of 'biblical' proportions as our Secretary of State has said, glaringly exposing Faux's obvious bias stop trying to cloud the issue with your fact free nonsense about KO,and RM.
I may not agree with RightOn most of the time, but I do find his opinions have some merit. Hannity and Beck and O'Reilly are a complete waste of time. They have sacrificed principles for party. You should not get your news from any opinion show. But, if someone is going to listen to political opinion for entertainment, at least pick someone with some principles. Fox News has none.
If you go to the MSNBC website, on 10-26-09, there, right on their header screams out: TALES OF HEALTH INSURANCE DISASTER!!! Supposedly fair to both sides and a ‘true news organization’ MSNBC blares anti-insurance propaganda while denying to report on what happens to health care when the government gets involved.
FAIL!! They have reported on the proposed bill. They just refuse to lie and fearmonger about it.
So tell us, what will happen when the government gets involved?
One thing I know is that when the government becomes the middle man, the 25% overhead for profits/CEO salaries will vanish. What do conservatives have against saving money?
Just because you don't understand an issue doesn't mean you can't learn about it. My advice - read.
So you've never spent money to insulate your house in order to save on heating and cooling bills? Maybe because you still live in your mother's basement?...
I have...but...I only insulated my own house, not the entire neighborhood. That would have been overkill. I'd love to see your credit score though.
It can easily be shown that Keith, Rachel, and Tweety go after Obama every chance as necessary!
I dare you... rather I demand that you (or any other conservative/right-wing/Republican find even one time, JUST ONCE when any of the right-wing shills over at Cluster Fox had the audacity to go after Bush/Cheney while they were in office??
Even one time! That's all I'm asking for! Just one example? And I'll show you several examples of Rachel, Keith, and Chris going after Obama when the need was called for!
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/17/olbermann-echoes-thinkprogress-lies-smear-palin
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDg2NTA4ZGNlNjI1MWVlN2NkYTczN2JlMWU3NDYwNmQ=&w=MA==
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/iblog/C1049953760/E20060411220251/index.html
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/iblog/C1049953760/E20061228114805/index.html
http://thecablegame.blogspot.com/2006/12/keith-olbermanns-top-ten-lies-of-2006.html
http://www.charlotteconservative.com/index.php/2009/12/rachel-maddow-falsely-claims-ex-gay-author-gave-support-and-encouragement-for-execution-of-gays-in-uganda/
http://politikditto.blogspot.com/2009/08/rachel-maddows-lies-lead-to-death.html
Do you not know how to read?? My post was not about whether Olbermann lied, it was about Cluster Fox
Let me repeat it again:
I dare you... rather I demand that you (or any other conservative/right-wing/Republican find even one time, JUST ONCE when any of the right-wing shills over at Cluster Fox had the audacity to go after Bush/Cheney while they were in office??
Even one time! That's all I'm asking for! Just one example? And I'll show you several examples of Rachel, Keith, and Chris going after Obama when the need was called for!
So it has to be liberal to be fair?
I'm waiting......
As for their lack of coverage, Westla's reasoning seems decidedly more plausible then your racial smears. . .
Do I need to remind everyone that Glen Beck recently made the absurd (not to mention racist) assertion that President Obama is a supposedly hates white people? What about Bill O'Really and how shocked he apparently was to discover that a certain black-run restaurant he ate at was actual (direct quote) "OK" and that is was "No different" than a white-run restaurant. And do I even need to quote all the racist crap that's come out of Ann Coulter's mouth over the years? Because just the though of that lying crazy bitch makes be sick.
I'll stop listing neocons who are racist now, because I don't have all day to sit here and write about them. The list is just too long.
Let me put it in no uncertain terms for you: Fox News is run by racists for racists. All you need to do to confirm this is go talk to a teabagger or a Sarah Palin supporter and ask them if they fear Obama because he's black. They do, and the'yll say so to you. On camera.
Like these fine god-fearing bible-belt racists did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3p_g2jXh8
Peace.
Next question?
Since the other networks are regularly pummeled in the ratings...maybe these four staffers could spend their time better by advising them on show content.
Better stick to reporting conservative mis-information.
Ratings are irrelevant to any discussion about quality or lack thereof.
What this is documenting is further evidence that FoxNews isn't a legit news organization. They should have covered this breaking story. Beck's interview with Sarah Palin could have waited - there was no immediate need for that interview to be aired. And the stories that O'Reilly pushed? Most of them weren't urgent matters covering breaking news. Legit cable news shows covered the ongoing events mixed with earlier reports throughout the evening, and FoxNews didn't.
This report covers how FoxNews continues to shirk their stated goal of being a fair and balanced legitimate news organization. That's worthy of MMFA coverage.
Having the highest ratings does not in any way equate to being truthful or right or decent or of having quality!
wesley is just upset that MMfA has the temerity to call out Cluster Fox for the propaganda arm of the RNC and the right-wing tea-bagging appeasers they are!!
Not everybody teabags on MMFA. Try again when saying everybody instead of a particular person.
You catch on fast, frankeee.
It's better to look before you jump into something right off. You've become more than annoying.
MMFA is reporting on right wing mis-information. It's just that Fox is sort of like the treasure trove of mis-information. Not reporting on an event like the earthquake in Haiti, is mis-information by omission.
It's not. Appearances can be deceiving. Nice to see you opiine on these cable networks without watching them.
You remain a child.
"just as I am aware of O'Reillys and Hannitys opposite one."
???????????????????????????????????????????????
right on
Are you Carrie Prejean???
Olbermann and Maddow, conversely, are left wing shills who use truth, facts, and logic to advance theirs.
Perfect symmetry.
AMEN!
Swing and a miss, Wesley and rightON!
Secondly, I've just pointed out the lame attempt by mmfa to criticize their mortal enemy with this bit of drivel about what they don't cover...pure silliness.
Third, don't be obtuse about television and television news...it is now and has always been about ratings...and not the quality of programming.
That's why news shows have always believed the axiom that "if it bleeds, it leads"...which has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with ratings.
Lastly, I agree that good news coverage and ratings have nothing to do with one another. Surprised? You shouldn't be.
And, what you clearly suggested is that Fox does a better job because they get better ratings. In fact, I think you suggested that it was laughable that Media Matters would criticize what programming they choose when they pummel their opponents in the ratings and that Media Matters should instead make suggestions to the other news channels since they clearly need different programming because they are getting lower ratings. I don't see any other way to interpret that.
That's a whimsical and subjective view on your part. You know and I know that it doesn't matter how many awards a show piles up...it's hasta la vista baby if no one is watching...remember Phil Donahue?
And you're absolutely correct in the assumption that FOX does a better job...in the ratings game...which has nothing to do with the quality.
I can just picture it. The staffer here assigned to watch each three networks coverage last night, all at the same time, sitting there in front of three TVs, juggling three stopwatches for start and stop times on each. "dammit, did I press start on this one and is that one for Fox or CNN?, I need help here!" :)
Is this supposed to be funny? Because it isn't, especially in the age of TIVO and DVR.
You really pathetically scraped the bottom of the barrel on that one.
You it amazes me to in discussions here with some cons the generational gap,lack of history, or their lack of curiousity in examining anything in a full manner. News has become entertainment yet it hasn't always been that way but since thats all they've seen thats all they know. Never bothering to ask "how did we get here?" From wence did we come? It's like someone watching the Flintstones(dating myself)and believing that Capitalism has always existed,and not a process of human economic development. Since they have no understanding of the process of development of things they can't tell the difference between what is good or progressive to human development or what is holding it back. So you get these false equivalency arguments and black and white reasons for things.
And, I think some of this is because of the educational system and, more importantly, the values taught at home. We need civics classes back for all students. It it crucial that everyone in our society understands how the system works, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. And, it is important that parents teach their kids that they are no more important than the generations that came before them. Learn your history, you are not so important that anything that happened before you no longer matters.
Ah, the power of television.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtycdRBAbXk
Both sides do it. We already know MMA's position on FOX. What is the point of this nonsense article?
OMG! ACORN videos = major natural disaster and human tragedy? WOW.
CNN and MSNBC clearly ignored the incomprehensible human suffering and bodies lining the streets in the aftermath of Breitbart's little ACORN passion play.
Go off topic!
What the #ell ! This is not about a fake Acorn is not the news story here!
The problem is about HAITI !
Even as fox reports about Haiti and Haitians it is heavy of the negitive side. LOOTING, hanging out as spectators at rescue sites, and having no one in charge!
FOX NEX just gave the weather report for Haiti.
*uck it it is just HOT there right now, What they need is a good rain for 7 days... THAT WOULD BE NEWS TO COVER FOR fox news.
A FOOT NOTE:
On the night of the Earth Quake --- The late broadcasts of Rachel Maddows and Larry King were both live .. all about HAITI. fox news still had not bothered to pick up the STORY! Fox ran rebroadcsts of thier big three!
I AM SMOKING P*SSED!!!
MSNBC received some criticism on Tuesday night for running two hours of Keith Olbermann's show where the unfolding disaster was not addressed.
Does 24/7 coverage of the carnage and suffering do anyone any good? Yes, we need to know and can be updated but if you want 24/7-then go there. There are many things going on here that need to be looked at too.
Relentless coverage 24/7 , of Fort Hood, the Miracle on the Hudson, and the shooting in St. Luois , just name a few. I left out the PantyBomber , Fox had O'Reilly and Beck on in rerun! The PantyBomber was not news to be covered by anything more than a news crawer on 12/25/09.
do what to go out for a BEER!
To say " Typical liberal bias smear"
a P.S.
Keith Olbermann did open his program about Haiti!
The offer for BEER still stands, YES or NO ?
Is NBC News Using Haiti Quake to Justify Obamacare?
Links to an article from their good buddies at Newsbusters.
Otherwise, they have a neutral presentation of the Pat Robertson--who is, in fact, the devil's spawn. Many of the comments differ from Robertson to the extent that they people of Haiti deserve it because they are poor and corrupt.
Your text to link here...
Heaven help anyway if Rush and Robertson were in fact in charge of anything.
Yeah, I, too, saw uberdouche try to interject U.S. politics into the disaster. Thankfully, congressman Weiner quickly and kindly told him he essentially was talking out his a@@. Uberdouche couldn't resist, but the good congressman advised that his effort was futile. . .
Do you have PitBull in you?
You do like/love to go on the Attack!
A Drunk , Typical liberal bias smeaer is asking you!
If you do not what go out for a beer, I can take you to HAITI to get your hands really dirty!
Where to start? There's a lot of things wrong with the USA, but I would have to put Fox News somewhere near the top of the list. Why Americans continue to let let a propaganda arm of the neo-con movement masquerade as a "Fair and balanced" news organization is beyond me. If I were Obama I'd have instructed the FCC to pull the Fox News broadcast licence the day I took office. Cite their hate speech, cite their lies, cite their misinformation, and then deny them a broadcast licence. If the neocons want to bitch about it, they can go to Fox News and... not be on the air because their licence is pulled.
I say: Make an issue out of Fox News, shine a big light on all their bull, and let them defend their history in a court of law if they want to fight for the privilege to broadcast. Don't just let them get away with all their bull.
Is there really more NEWS coming out of Haiti?
The news is that a catastrophic quake leveled a struggling country.
News will come - a unique rescue story, statistics, reaction/action/inaction
by home government.
But, help is on the way. Pounding these photos and finger-pointing reports
hour after hour is exploitive.
I like Fox, think Beck needs some communication skills, O'Reilly has his faults
but can be surprisingly fair, Shep did tons for the people of New Orleans. It's not
about Fox, it's about both sides and their followers ditto-ing the same thing, intellectually
blind. Here's a story no, not one news org. covered yesterday:
Millions Starve to Death on Daily Basis in Darfur
what about?
40,000 Americans Die Every Year Due to Lack of Insurance
Sarah Palin Continues to Sidestep Every Question Regarding Her Intelligence
There are a million news stories a day. The people of the US should not forget Haiti,
as they didn't New Orleans or people in the tsunami's path. But ongoing efforts are
not daily news stories. 60 minutes and the print pubs will share those.
Love you all - but let's be smart. (please forward to Media Matters)
If you don't like a particular program turn the damn thing off! All you kool aid drinking people do all day is blog about Fox and especially O'Reilly, throwing him in with Hannity and Beck, both of which are opinion programs where Bill's is not. Most of you don't bother to even watch, you just pick up what one blogger says and take it for the truth.
Personally I would rather see reporters down there and know what is going on, as horrid as it is, rather than get it second hand from another source.
Fox also has a very long list and are adding to it as soon as they vet it of charities safe to donate if you wish to do so.
Do NOT be knocking Fox! They'll have more people down there than the rest have actual reporters!
@Pong**** I respect your views, MSNBC is a left wing media outlet. Cris Mathews rambles on and Kieth can be over the top at times. But Maddow is one of the only news personalities that tells the truth all the time(besides John Stewert of course). And the reason Republicans can't stand her is because she got your master Dick Army fired.
And unknown1 your just an idiot.
The only thing you can ever come up with is namecalling and saying Stalin, Hitler,ect...
People are here for intelligent debate and your doing your side a big injustice with your mindless dribble
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, EMTALA) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency health care treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions.
45,000 is the factual number (rounded, of course) of Americans who die every year due to lack of access to health care. We are not talking only about emergency treatment. That number (45,000) is a verifiable statistic that news articles, politicians, and the health care industry itself agree on. It includes many U.S. citizens who cannot afford the health insurance peddled by firms whose main concern is to report profits on Wall Street. They are our neighbors who were denied expensive, possibly lifesaving treatments by the very companies they had paid premiums to for years or decades. They are people who lost everything they owned because they fell gravely ill and they exceeded the lifetime cap their insurer places on benefits it pays out, so they tried to pay for treatment on their own until their family was financially ruined and then they died anyway. FOR LACK OF HEALTH COVERAGE - NOT BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T GET AN AMBULANCE RIDE!
Not sure how you managed to miss this one:
http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-lack-health-coverage
And besides, Haitians are not real Americans.
No one should be surprised that the first news station on my Sirius car radio and my Tivo remote is BBC.
Bill O'Reilly is an embarrassment to journalism in America.
Which is why we watch MSNBC. Sick of the unfeeling blowhards on Faux.
That is because FOX Snooze is not a news channel it is a political machine of the loony right-wing. Not at all for the common sense people in this country. Whether if your views or right or left. If you have common sense you should know where FOX Snooze stands.
I suggest you read my post one more time. Regardless who watch FOX Snooze they know where they stand. The loony right think they tell the truth. The loony left watch it to have a one sided view point to believe any one who has a right political view is wrong. I have a left view, but I know anybody who is a true conservative would not believe that garbage that FOX Snooze spits. Whereas I know when MSNBC gets out of line. It is all about going to other news outlets to form your opinion via the internet, books, or newspapers.
Who are you to define what a 'true conservative' is?
While we're at it lets get down to fundamental liberalism and conservatism, democrats and republicans, and discuss the label changes over the last few hundred years.
Conservative policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems.
Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for the government to solve people's problems.
Didn't it use to be the opposite?
You may consider yourself conservative, but I bet you have liberal views about certain issues. I myself I am a little more extreme in my views then liberals. I balance myself in a progressive view. I want change. Liberals favor free-market capitalism. I as a progressive favor a mixed economy. Now I am conservative in some views. Like: Gun rights, and late term abortions, but I do lean progressive and think women should have the right to choice, but to a certain level of preganacy.
I do not care for the MSM. They are bought by bogus corporations. Who chose what they want to show to viewers AND NOT REAL TRUE ISSUES!
However, lets not get into abortion. It's too long and drawn out of a topic, and I'm a staunch Catholic with a die-hard pro-life view.
You are absolutely, 100% correct about the MSM. It's all bullcrap.
Exposed Rush for his distain of the Haitians people in their time of need ,and his HATE for President Obama!
Exposed Robertson for his Understaning of the Teaching of the Son of GOD to bring aid and comfort HAITI and her people !
Exposed Maddows who Politicies the disaster!
All three were WRONG!! WRONG!!
The sad thing is that all day on Fox NEWS 1/15/10, Fox will only use the Maddows part of the segment!
WATCH AND SEE, if I am wrong with this prediction!
If it wasn't clear before, it's LOUD AND CLEAR now!
Apparently MSNBC gets a high from it. And some day after MSNBC gets their way and all wealth has been redistributed, where is all this aid money going to come from the next time?
Tea bagger
This site is nothing but an MSNBC love fest. Your days are numbered, come Tuesday the beginning of the end is upon you.
Tea bagger
Oh? And what happens Tuesday? You gonna go 'rogue' on us?
Golly gee, yet another under the breathe threat from a right-winger??
The humanity of it all...
On a side note, I've already posted my opinion of Pat Robertson's Haiti comments. I'm wondering if there's any buzz around the Kool-Aid cooler on Danny Glover's comment.
Quote: "When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin'?”
Looks like Glover thinks the earthquake would have been avoided if we only HAD signed a pact with the Devils of Copenhagen.
Way too much potential for helping Obama and/or blacks.*
* If you ever hear PC people try to call them African-American, please inform them that they are idiots.
Way too much potential for helping Obama and/or blacks.*
* If you ever hear PC people try to call them African-American, please inform them that they are idiots.
Believe me, they are there, waiting for the slaughter. mayham, and most importanly to prove Rush Limbaugh right.