Hopeless: Fox News stands virtually alone in not airing Haiti benefit concert
On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now, a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. But even after receiving criticism for giving little coverage to the devastating earthquake in Haiti on its top-rated programs, Fox News did not preempt its programming and air the benefit concert, instead broadcasting regular editions of The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity.
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CNN, MSNBC, and others carry Hope for Haiti Now -- but not Fox News
CNN, MSNBC preempt prime time schedule to air MTV Network's Hope for Haiti Now. On January 22, numerous media outlets aired MTV Networks' Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, a telethon and concert "to raise funds for Haiti after last week's devastating earthquake." Beginning at 8 p.m. ET, CNN and MSNBC preempted their usual prime time coverage to air the special. According to MTV, the following media outlets also carried the benefit:
"Hope for Haiti Now" will air across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Español, HBO Latino and Canadian networks, including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television and MuchMusic. The event will be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com and Rhapsody, and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and FloTV. "Hope for Haiti Now" will also air internationally on BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International, which is available in 640 million homes worldwide. "Hope for Haiti Now" will be available non-exclusively to all terrestrial radio stations around the globe and SIRIUS XM Radio as a one-time-only radio broadcast via the MTV Radio Network and Westwood One.
MTV's press release stated of Hope for Haiti Now's proceeds:
"Hope for Haiti Now" will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation and the newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation. Proceeds from the telethon will be split among each organization's individual funds for Haiti earthquake relief. With the exception of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, each partner organization was selected for its history of operation and collaboration within the NGO community in Haiti.
Fox News airs regular broadcasts of The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity. During its 8 and 9 p.m. ET hours, while CNN and MSNBC pre-empted their programming to air the benefit, Fox News aired its regularly scheduled broadcasts of The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity. On his program, Bill O'Reilly aired segments about Sarah and Bristol Palin's "body language" during their Oprah interview, an interview with Glenn Beck about his first year at Fox News, and a segment on the "collapse" of the "far left media." Similarly, Hannity's broadcast included an interview with Karl Rove on the Obama administration's approval ratings and health care reform, as well as a segment on the Democratic Party's reaction to Scott Brown's election.
Top Fox programs devoted far less coverage to Haiti earthquake than MSNBC
Day after earthquake, MSNBC's top programs devoted significantly more time to earthquake than Fox's. 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.
After criticism, Fox still devoted scant coverage to Haiti. After receiving criticism for giving little coverage to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009 devoted scant coverage to the disaster for a second night on January 14 -- a combined total of 20 minutes and 40 seconds on January 14 -- while MSNBC's three top-rated shows devoted more than an hour and 45 minutes to discussing Haiti. The vast majority of the coverage on Fox's top-rated shows aired on The O'Reilly Factor; Beck's and Hannity's shows each aired less than four minutes of coverage of the disaster.
O'Reilly lashes out at Media Matters, LA Times' Rainey over criticism of Fox's Haiti coverage. On the January 18 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly attacked those who had criticized his coverage of Haiti -- including Media Matters and Los Angeles Times writer James Rainey -- adding: "By the way, Fox News, our coverage on Haiti has been terrific. Our correspondents have been great."
Never heard of it?
I thought so.
But it's obvious you haven't heard of MMFA's mission statement. Take a few seconds to read it, admit you were wrong, and all will be better.
MMFA does not purport to be a news site, Fox does. Your argument is invalid.
The weak person inside me says to quit today, but I won't give up the fight.
This was given to me by God, not man, and only if you would give $2 dollars out of what you would give to Haiti, we could clear up the homeless situation in the United States.
My heart goes out to Haiti in a major way and I am sympathetic, but what about here at home? I recently heard that Denver alone will bring $30 to $40M to help Haiti and we are just one city. The giving is beautiful to see, but we must help the homeless in the same way as the situation will only get worse if ignored.
Here in Denver they say they don't want the homeless in public places or loitering in parks so lets fine them $200 dollars, or throw them into jail, and of course they end up in jail as they do not have the money to pay the fine, remember they are homeless and jobless.
If it was me I would go to jail just to get food and shelter. I don't know if I am angry or depressed that George Clooney could and will bring in millions to Haiti, but when I ask him in the name of God to help I cannot get a response.
Please realize the reason that we are blessed and do not have the problems that Haiti and other countries have is because we were founded in God we Trust, not in Clooney we trust.
Please think about your own back yard as that is where the homeless will eventually end up.
hopeforhaitinow.org
Give now and again later. Think of a US city of 3M in which 2/3 are now homeless with an obliterated infrastructure - say Chicago south of the Kennedy to nearly the state line - to grasp the enormity of this tragedy.
120 minutes to recognize and respond to one of the most significant disasters in the modern age - apparently too much to ask. And it's supposed to be the liberals who are so in love with death.
Also, you might take note of how many of the nets that showed it were property of the same corporations.
How many should show it? How many viewers would have given money to the cause if those 2 and a half million sheeple who watch Fox Noise had been watching the telethon?
That's okay, though. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdocj were only playing to type - we expected no less from them. I mean, how much richer do they need to get?
You can defend them, if you like. Remember, though, you are the company you keep.
You got a point there, keep watching olbermann and schultz, the biggest frauds in news.
Did you see what the liberal Miami Herald had to sat about the election coverage the other night? Check it out , you might wake up, but I doubt it.
"If you watched CNN or Fox News last night, you got a balanced analysis of how Republican Scott Brown pulled off the political upset of the century (or, if you prefer, how Democrat Martha Coakley blew a dead solid electoral lock). Yes, I said Fox News, without irony. To be sure, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity made it clear they were rooting for Brown. But their shows also included a steady parade of liberal-leaning guests -- former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, former Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, Democratic party strategist Mary Anne Marsh, NPR commentator Juan Williams and radio host Alan Colmes. And pollster Frank Luntz interviewed a panel of two dozen or so Massachusetts voters, most of them Democrats, about how they voted and why. Practically every conceivable perspective on the election was represented"
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/changing_channels/2010/01/msnbc-to-massachusetts-drop-dead.html
Read it if you dare.
What I don't do is watch commentary that is predictable and built upon lies. Fox is trash television. It has no more value than Jerry Springer. Formulaic garbage.
When they have a left-leaning voice in the studio, you can bet the person will either be too weak to make a good argument or will be interrupted and shouted down.
Your first clue should be that none of your pals have the guts to actually step out and meet anyone on neutral turf. They know they can't possibly stand up to that kind of scrutiny.
They are truly worthless liars. you are welcome to defend (and idolize) them, but I would rather read the truth than rot in front of the television waiting for your pals to actually say something I couldn't have thought of myself.
Really? Did you see O'Reilly's appearance on Marvin Kalb's PBS show? O'Reilly ate him alive. But you say you get your news from newpapers, what did you think of the Miami Herald's comments about the election coverage? I posted them.
I don't really care. O'Reilly cares. He is an egotistical little man. And, no, I didn't see him on PBS. I did see Franken tear him up, though. O'Reilly is a tiny little thing with a God complex.
He really doesn't matter as much as he thinks he does.
More people were watching Simon Cowell.
Bummer for you.
He also claimed that there was a coup in Florida, look up the word coup.
Can you point out what he was right about?
Annd how about some support for a death threat made by O'Reilly, that never happened, you made it up.
-O'Reilly to Glick, after the show
By the way, I tried to have an actual intellectual debate about the merits of Glick's and O'Reilly's arguments with her many moons ago. She actually becomes alot like her hero and degenerates into madness - anything to defend O'Reilly. Anything.
"Our current president now inherited a legacy from his father and inherited a political legacy that's responsible for training militarily, economically, and situating geopolitically the parties involved in the alleged assassination and the murder of my father and countless of thousands of others"
"is that in -- six months before the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, starting in the Carter administration and continuing and escalating while Bush's father was head of the CIA, we recruited a hundred thousand radical mujahadeens to combat a democratic government in Afghanistan, the Turaki government"
He also claimed that the Turaki government was a democratic government. That was wrong too, they took power in a coup.
And if you knew what you were talking about you would also realize that the very purpose of his appearance was to explain his participation in an ad that blamed the Bush administration for 9/11.
try reading it again and then tell me what you think. If you think at all.
http://carpeicthus.livejournal.com/238893.html
Here are a few more of his words
O'REILLY: All right. You didn't support the action against Afghanistan to remove the Taliban. You were against it, OK.
GLICK: Why would I want to brutalize and further punish the people in Afghanistan...
O'REILLY: Who killed your father!
GLICK: The people in Afghanistan...
O'REILLY: Who killed your father.
GLICK: ... didn't kill my father.
O'REILLY: Sure they did. The al Qaeda people were trained there.
GLICK: The al Qaeda people? What about the Afghan people?
O'REILLY: See, I'm more angry about it than you are!
GLICK: So what about George Bush?
O'REILLY: What about George Bush? He had nothing to do with it.
GLICK: The director -- senior as director of the CIA.
O'REILLY: He had nothing to do with it.
GLICK: So the people that trained a hundred thousand Mujahadeen who were
Convinced yet, the idiot did not know what he was talking about, just like you.
How are the wingnuts supposed to have a chance if you don't let them make up all of their "facts"?
Name a few, or just one. Citations, please!
And if one reads the comments, one will find out that the TV critic and his diehard fans surely lean right.
And to top it all off, MSNBC's coverage of Tuesday's election is OFF-TOPIC.
So please don't feed this troll any more.
You can govern the success of a site by the number of references and attacks from enemies it gets. If it isn't successful, most reasonable people would ignore it. You only attack what is damaging to you
You're still off-topic with bringing up MSNBC's coverage of Tuesday's special election. And you're even more off-topic with your rant against MMFA not having a link to help. But it's especially delightful to see your hypocrisy on full display - you complain about MMFA but fail to mention the muc more obvious problems that FoxNews has in not covering THIS event. If MMFA should provide a link, which you claim they should, despite the fact that all kinds of other sites have links, then how can you excuse FoxNews for not having televised this event?
I just LOVE it when people like you dig your own holes. Please keep it up!!! Please, pretty please? Keep proving how much of a hypocrite you are.
BTW, I'm not aware that MMFA is "sinking," but if it does, it's really no concern of mine. I just enjoy reading and posting here.
You really do need to quit using Bill O'Reilly-isms, though. It's just really creepy.
Um, okay, Cryptkeeper.
Willie Brown-OK, pretty liberal guy
Susan Estrich-the woman who helped elect Bush the Elder in '88 by coming up with the idea of Dukakis riding a tank
Mary Anne Marsh-don't know her
Juan Williams-an Uncle Tom who gets more conservative every year
Alan Colmes-stereotypical spineless liberal wimp, the real-life Droopy
Oh, sure, this is the best that liberals have to offer (sarcasm)!
How many liberals at Fox have had their own again?
"Wait and see, our whinning pres will be . . ."
You have a typo in there, let me fix that for you...
"Wait and see, our winning pres will be . . ."
There you go, all fixed. Now stop your whining and go play outside for three more years.
What does that mean? I don't have ANYONE. Once again, FL, you are making an incorrect assumption that if someone is criticizing Fox that they automatically are watching MSNBC. That's not true. Over 4 million people are actually watching that trashy "reality" show Jersey Shore instead of watching Fox. Pretty funny that a trashy reality show has higher ratings than your crush, huh?
As for Pat Buchanan . . . he's actually a conservative. I don't agree with his anti-Semitic, racist views, but Pat Buchanan is much, much more a conservative than any of the overpaid entertainers on Fox.
Oh, honey, I'm sorry, but you are the most blissful person I've ever seen in my life. You spew complete and total nonsense that you have heard your crush say and then, when confronted, you post links which, at least 90% of the time, REFUTE the point you are trying to make.
Yes, I'm thinking that your new screen name should be "Miss Bliss."
One more time, FL . . . these are OPINION NETWORKS. You've got to quit assuming that what you are hearing on ANY of these cable networks is actually based on fact.
They're IGNORING the plight of the Haitians? How so?
Fox News' lack of interest in Haiti tho--well, that's different.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mediamatters.com/
I wonder what the gnats will do for a living when they declare bankruptcy like air America?
And you're gnats!
And Ed Schultz!
And ACORN!
And Olbermann!
And I just found out who Pavlov was!
[Repeat 81 times]
Is it possible for someone to be half-lingual?
How do you distill that down to 90 per day? Are there a little over 3000 days in December in your unique world?
Typical. She NEVER reads the links she googles and posts. I think we're going to have to up her failure rate to 95%.
You're a con artist.
Fox News so wants to wear the "legitimate" and "mainstream" label continuously fail to act as such. That's why MMFA is right to call them out.
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the solution."
-Sherlock Holmes
MMFA does not purport to be a news network, Fox does. Fox is not. Your comparison of the two is specious.
Fox isn't showing very much coverage on Haiti because they know that if they use it to trash Obama, they will be trashed. The overwhelming majority of Americans are doing what Americans do . . . come together in time of crisis to help their fellow man. They are not going to put up with the usual Fox anti-Obama propaganda [well, actually, anti-everything except Fox's agenda propaganda] being attached to this tragedy of MASSIVE proportions. They aren't reporting it because they don't know how.
Ask for a raise, FL, your crush isn't paying you enough to shill for him here. If you aren't being paid . . . wow.
Oh, faily, you just volunteer the stoopid, don't you ?. Weren't you the one outraged that MMFA didn't have links to donate to Haiti ? But when Fox deciides to blow off the event, you come running to their defense, like the obedient suckling that you are.
I'm surprised you couldn't figure out that MMFA was using some of its other Soros-funded arms of the liberal MSM that you believe exists to take care of the Haiti donations.
I think you do yourself in with your own delusional self-importance sometimes. Had you not posted this feeble defense, I'd bet nobody would have remembered who it was screeching about MMFA's lack of links.
You made it obvious.
Keep on Failin' !
Wait - when did Fox get a news channel? All I've seen is that lame comedy channel with Glenn Beck. He's not very funny.
You're all acting like Fox News is the only network on the planet.
In my opinion the telethon was like a salve on celebrity guilt. If each "celebrity" involved just kicked in a million dollars each(which most of them could do without missing it) they'd have been able to collect a lot more money for Haiti than begging some 70 year old grandma in Boise to kick in $5.
The kind of people who watch FoxNews prime time line-up don't contribute to things like Haiti relief. They'll give thousands to their churches, but won't give $10 bucks via text message on their cell phones. Believe me, I know several who refused to do just that. They wouldn't even give $10.
But I did get emails from them late last week encouraging contributions - to Scott Brown, that is - from people who don't live in Massachusetts. They were willing to help elect someone in another state, but not to help the millions of disadvantaged people in Haiti.
So why would FoxNews want to show their viewers something that their hard-little-hearts don't want to be exposed to?
This is the same reason they didn't cover it very well or very extensively in their prime time line-up right after the earthquake either - their viewers didn't want to see it. And that says it all about their viewers and about how FoxNews is NOT a legitimate news organization.
A word to you and those who would like to disparage Christian charities. Only a truly bigotted person would ignore or miss the fact that if it weren't for those "church" charities already being in place at the time of the earthquake hundreds more children would have died, possibly thousands. But you and your like go ahead and scorn those who contribute to their churches. Afterall, their donations probably are used for, heaven forbid, good.
Lastly, not everyone wants or needs to see moping celebrities to be guilted into donating to charities. While I respect their efforts, I can't help but feel that concert also fed some egos. One or two channels were sufficient.
This is not rocket science. It IS hypocrisy though!
Secondly it's been repeatedly noted in this thread that there has been no link put up to help with the Haitian Earthquake Relief. So to settle fakeliberals nerves here with is a list of "7+ Reputable Charities Working on Haiti Earthquake Relief"
[Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/haiti-earthquake-relief-47011302#ixzz0dUGHzFjU]
Hatian Earthquake Relief Fund Sites:
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American Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=a8712721ea326210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD
The American Red Cross, which is almost three-times bigger than the next-biggest charity listed here, is providing support to Haitians affected by the earthquake. It is, however, rated as a three-star charity by Charity Navigator -- which means it "exceeds or meets industry standards and performs as well as or better than most charities in its cause." The four-star charities listed below "exceed industry standards and outperforms most charities in its cause."
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Food for the Poor Hati Earthquake Relief:
https://secure3.convio.net/ffp/site/Donation2?df_id=6280&6280.donation=form1
Food for the Poor is providing emergency relief to earthquake victims.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~World Vision Haiti Earthquake Relief:
http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1958776
World Vision is distributing relief supplies – including food, clean water, blankets and tents to children and families impacted by the earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti.
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Care Haiti Earthquake Relief:
https://my.care.org/site/Donation2?df_id=5080&5080.donation=form1
Care is sending helping to rescue people from the rubble, and providing food and water.
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UNICEF Haiti Earthquake Relief:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52423.html
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is providing immediate support, even though its own offices in Port-au-Prince were devastated by the earthquake. At this writing, the UNICEF USA donation page is down, though. - (Back up at 20:31 EST)
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Samaritan's Purse Haiti Earthquake Relief:
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/responding_to_haiti_earthquake/
Samaritan's Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water and hygiene supplies.
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Friends World Food Program Haiti Earthquake Relief:
http://www.friendsofwfp.org/site/c.hrKJIXPFIqE/b.5027069/k.8AF0/Featured_Appeal.htm
Friends of World Food Program works in the U.S. to support the U.N.'s World Food Programme, which is supplying food to Haitians during the crisis.
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Global Giving Haiti Earthquake Relief:
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/emergency-earthquake-relief-fund-for-haiti/
Global Giving has launched an emergency earthquake relief fund that will provide emergency assistance.
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I make no claims about these Relief organizations nor about the validity of the links. However I did engage each of the links and the directed to me to legitimately looking web sites.
As for Miss fake fairliberal she is as fair and balanced as Fox. That speaks volumes folks, does it not? Me thinks she is somehow a stake holder in the Faux Snooze Nutwork and ergo her pronouncements are hugely suspect.
The liberal media (according to her) are quaking in their boots with jealousy over Faux's ever dwindling numbers. (If no one has noticed Fox's mainstay prime time programming of right wing drivel has been softened (leftward. lessened or out right eliminated (think 24).
Since her points are illogical and invalid I was wondering what would happen if we quite feeding her delusions of grandeur by no longer replying to her drivel .... would this corporate boot spittle lackey dry up and blow away? Would she be demoted, fired or reassigned for her ineffectualness in controlling the dialogue on this blog? One can only hope so. Maybe her job could be outsourced too. Now wouldn't that be a fitting touch.
The country wanted a change and Obama failed to deliver, he is buying votes and dealing behind closed doors. What happened to all the transparency, what happened to C Span?
If he doesn't change he is a one term president just like Carter.
If someone had told me on January 20, 2009 that in just one year President Obama will have solved the financial, health care, war on two fronts, etc. problems that were dumped on his lap on that day, I would have thought they were out of their minds.
Maybe I am naive, but I figured he had about a 0% chance to solve all that this fast. Nevertheless, I voted for him and continue to support him, though obviously I would like to see things improve quicker than they have.
PLEASE take the "fair" off your screen name.
These people live in shack homes with tin roofs... 75% of the country is out of work, and most people that do have jobs make $2.00 a day !!!
The reason our military is there is to protect the people that are there to help. http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/1/17/34504/Two-Dominican-workers-shot-in-Haiti-during-relief-effort
Way to go America... lets support this nation that shoot's at the people that are there to HELP!!!
That's why FoxNews didn't broadcast it, like I said above. They knew their typical viewer didn't want to see it, and didnt' want to help.
For a disater such as Hati has suffered and most of Television Networks showing it,it is called"symbolisim"
He will get forced to tow the line believing in those progressive concepts and serve one term. He already is praising and listening to the teabaggers.
SMH!
Your post is ridiculous and has nothing whatsoever to do with the discussion. You can't discuss issues, FL. You only discuss false talking points.
faux is news for the white natioalist aka tea baggers g.o.p etc
Imagine every channel on the planet covered an event like this. The only thing you can do to distinguish between channels would be the network logo, because 99% of the material would be regurgitated anyway.
He said a lot but one thing that stuck with me is that all these right wing commentators may find themselves out of a job soon.
Why should these corporations pay these people such large sums of money when now they can put candidates up for election and have them do their bidding at a much cheaper and less public exposure to what they want done.
They may jumping up and down now,but remember when robots took over factory jobs?
They may have a new name for those robots now called Senator or Congressman.
Part of the problem I have about people trashing FNC is that they ignore the vast majority of content it creates on a daily basis. Does FNC make mistakes? Sure they do. MSNBC and CNN do as well. Out of 24 hours of programming, MMFA posts maybe a half hour (that's just a guess don't call me a liar if that's not exactly correct) of clips in an attempt to prove FNC promotes misinformation. But what about all the actual, provable, factual information FNC produces in those 24 hours? A half hour of "misinformation" compared to 23.5 hours of normal, truthful broadcasting? That, to me, sounds like left-wing spin and honest mistakes on the part of FNC.
It's the same thing with individual conservative commentators. They'll take maybe 10 total minutes of audio Beck says (out of 4 hours of content he produces 5 days a week) throughout the day and claim it proves he's "Misinformer of the Year". Wait a minute. You found problems with only 10 minutes of what he said, but what about that other 3 hours and 50 minutes? I assume he made some good points in that other time. Doesn't that outweigh 10 minutes of left-wing spin and perhaps honest mistakes on Beck's part?
There are plenty of sources of news available these days. You just have to actually want real news.
Secondly, the opinion makers that Fox News puts on have no principles. They are nothing more than Republican supporters. They change their opinions and beliefs based on how the Republican party is faring. I would not listen to Keith Olbermann for my news, but if you want to see the difference between the two channels I would encourage you to watch the way he took the Obama DOJ to task for what he considers them covering up these possibly faked suicides in Gitmo. He is vehement in his attack on the Obama administration because he disagrees with them on principle in this case.
O'Reilly declared for the world that G-Dub would lose all credibility if his reason for going into Iraq (WMDs) turned out to be false. Of course, it did turn out to be false and O'Reilly's principles went right out the window and he continued to defend G-Dub right till the end. Beck has become an attack dog on the economic policies of G-Dub - just as soon as they were Obama's problems. When G-Dub was still president and Beck had yet to work for Fox, he thought the bailouts were not big enough. I would say, if you are going to listen to political opinions for entertainment - at least listen to someone who has an ounce of principles. Who has not chosen party over country. And, which of these mistakes of Beck's that MM points out on a daily basis can you actually defend as "honest"? That is laughable at best.
OK, then. Let's say I produce four hours of content every day. Of those four hours I produce 15 minutes of lies and distortions. These lies and distortions aren't intentional, it's just that with creating all this content so quickly I tend to overlook or misanalyze things. After all, I'm only human. How can you discount - and outright ignore - the vast majority of my good, truthful work based on a small amount of misinformation, unintentional or not?
It's almost like the charges of hypocrisy when Bristol Palin got pregnant. Just because she didn't practice abstinence, it somehow discounts the whole notion of abstinence being a good choice? When given a choice between having sex before marriage or not, the correct choice is clearly not having sex. The hypocrisy doesn't negate the correct choice. That may or may not be a good analogy. Ignore it if it's not.
That's hypocrisy.
Really, none of the cable "news" networks are great sources of news. They are great sources for commentary, and if it's your cup of tea, entertainment. Good places to get fired up about current events.
The problem I, and I know so many others have with FOX News, is their claim to be "fair and balanced". MSNBC may be liberal, but they embrace that fact. They don't try to con their viewers into thinking they are getting a fair, unfiltered point of view. Their slogan is "The Place For Politics", not "We Have No Bias". If Fox were to come right out and say "Fox News: Yay Tea Parties!", at least, for once, it would make them honest.
Magcynic sort of suggested a guess at a percentage, which I'd say is low, as so much of Fox is built on repetition of the same ideas over and over.
BUt, even if it was only 10% that was wrong or misleading, that's plenty to determine the message.
Another point is that, even if a source was reporting 100% facts, selecting which facts to report can drastically change what the message is.
Besides, shouldn't a "news" channel provide consistent journalistic integrity at all hours of the day?
What is this "journalistic integrity" of which you speak? That is a totally alien concept to Fake News.
Also, for you to call the propaganda that is spewed on Fox "conservative" is insulting to all true conservatives.
Of all of these orginizations how many of them have people giving opinions when the person given that opinion has been,charged with a crime,thrown out of office or left there positions under clouds of wrong doing?
It was on the FOX NETWORK!
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/
Pick on something factual. There is plenty to choose from!!
When some of you are in the process of 'working up a mad', just make sure that your energy is going for a factual cause!!
HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
/choose the RIGHT news source, sheeple!
SO why not critize CineMax or Showtime or Nike? Oh yeah becuase Media Matters only cares about trying to debunk Fox News (and fails BTW).
I care about Haiti, but whhy did the telethon have to be on over 20 channels? It would have been fine on just 4 channels ....I mean really did any one here actualy watch it start to finish???? Personally I got annoyed becuase there was nothing on, so instead I played Halo 3!!!
Oh yeah, and the MSNBC broadcast on my provider was there standard programing, unless they they switched to the concert 40 minutes in....
Nothing new. FOX Snooze had their own agenda anyway. Talking about Scott Brown's ex high school sweetheart or continued excuses to blame the democrats for something. Ohh! more Sarah Palin interviews!
SMH!
Maybe I don't want to watch some low quality, on TV, "concert". Besides I've given to my charity of choice, actually TWO charities and if I want to give more it will have NOTHING to do with entertainers. can you say doctors without borders, or the clinton/bush fund or rubicon???? Not everyone wants to watch what YOU think we should be FORCED to watch or NOT watch.... pathetic morons....
You guys are like wind-up monkeys. If you're going to be a predictable zombie, at least try to be the quickest predictable zombie.
How does it feel to have the other kids on the short bus beating you ?
We understand why it happened. People of your ilk don't want to contribute when they feel chided by all those liberal entertainers. They don't want to contribute when they think that the needy might have done something to put themselves in the needy boat (channel Pat Robertson). They don't want to contribute when it's all about black people, or when it's those dang foreigners, or when it's the right thing to do for religious people so long as the highly religious people that they don't want to help follow a different brand of religion than those folks. They don't want to be reminded that they're too hard-hearted to help, so why would they watch a show like that?
What difference does it make?
MMFA never SAID that every channel had to cover it. They only pointed out that FoxNews didn't, making them unique among the major news channels in the USA. The point of this posting was to expose FoxNews for not showing the telethon.
Jeez, your spelling is terrible. It's spelled "m-e-t-h d-e-a-l-e-r-s".