Fox News
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And an ABC News poll said that 55 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein directly supported Al Qaida. None of this opinion is based on evidence (because there isn't any). All of it is based on insinuation, auto-suggestion, and outright lies circulated by the U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "Free Press," that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. Arundhati Roy Presented in New York City at The Riverside Church May 13, 2003
Why We Should Stop Watching Fox News (8/24/2010)
Demand that News Corp.'s major shareholders renounce Glenn Beck's violent rhetoric and its dangerous consequences.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Gives GOP Governors Association $1 Million (8/17/2010)
"Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox" David Frum
Oxymoron: Murdoch Media Ethics
Fox News Ever-Expanding ethics Nightmare (4/232/2010)
Rupert Murdoch owns a worldwide media empire of newspapers, radio, satellite, and television channels including Fox. He employs many of the most strident ’personalities’ delivering misinformation: Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich are highly paid Fox News political analysts. So are Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity. These are the people that initiated and nurtured the tea party movement. Murdoch employees all. It is fair to attribute the tea party movement to Rupert Murdoch. We have seen the power of talk radio in Rwanda.
Lou Dobbs brings his Immigration Lies to Fox (8/30/2010)
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PIPA polls determined that Fox News listeners have more misconceptions than any other network. Lately they seem to be calling for armed insurrection. Fox News "War games" the Coming Civil War (2/22/2009)
Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, at an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland admitted that his news operation tried to lead America into the war in Iraq.
since 2007 when Murdoch said climate change “poses clear, catastrophic threats,” Murdoch and his media operations “have become the nation’s leading source of disinformation about climate change.” From Rolling Stones
Who'd Pay for Rupert Murdoch's Climate Change Skepticism? (12/15/2009)
Fox supports the regressive corporate (Republican) agenda that rewards the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. It is NOT ‘conservative’. The point of the Republican agenda is to motivate people to act against their own interest, allowing wealth to concentrate even further in our controlling corporate oligarchy. Roger Ailes, a Murdoch employee, runs the show at Fox. See Roger Ailes: the Real Head of the GOP (1/18/2010)
The financial sector spun out of control, industry moved offshore, bankruptcies soared, but Fox opposes remedies. Health care in the US is twice as expensive as anywhere else, offers little choice, produces outcomes slightly better than Cuba's, leaves many without service, and is a major cause of bankruptcy, but Fox opposes change. Climate decline is a major threat to the next generations, but Fox denies the problem.
Despite declining wages, longer working hours, less time off, and shrinking benefits, Fox, facilitating the Walmartization of America, opposes unions.
Fox and Friends Rationalizing Threats against Democrats (3/25/2010)
O'Reilly Finds a New Way to Be Wrong About Immigration and Crime (6/21/2010)
Demand that News Corp.'s major shareholders renounce Glenn Beck's violent rhetoric and its dangerous consequences. (7/30/2010)
Beck Attacks Social Justice (3/12/2010)
Why Glenn Beck is So Repulsive (2/26/2010)
Stossel is the latest Fearmonger at Fox News (12/16/2009)
Fox Nation Headline About Nativity Scene Ban Twists The TruthRolling Stones
Christian Right Is 'Trolling for Assassins' (11/19/2009)
Fox News Faux News (11/2009)
Fox News "war games" the coming civil war
Keith Olbermann: "...imagine if William Randolph Hearst had owned a cable television network. The first admission from the evil overlord of Fox, Rupert Murdoch, that his news operation tried to lead America into the war in Iraq. Mr. Murdoch‘s remarkable confession coming at ... annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland." (Countdown with Keith Olbermann transcript) [Editor's note: An essential update to the now-classic documentary Outfoxed!]
William
Kristol
Outside
the White House itself, no single person has championed the Iraq War with more
determination than Dan Quayle's brain PNAC's co-founder
Rupert Murdoch's mouth William Kristol.
That means the blood of over 3,000 American soldiers and 655,000 Iraqi civilians is pouring off his hands.
Of course, Kristol's record isn't just bloody, it's filled with innumerable lies, as Media Matters has documented.
See the video
Fox News -- home of outrageous smears, falsehoods -- promotes "tea parties"
protesting "journalistic malpractice"
October 17, 2009 9:01 am ET
Stewart: Fox News Is The Meanest Sorority in the World (3/12/2010)
Blessed are those who Possess Colt Peacemakers
FOX wants war with Iran.
"It's almost too ridiculous to believe, but it's shockingly real. We've already compiled over 4 hours of FOX footage just in the last few months... the same images, sound effects, yelling and threatening that led the U.S. to invade Iraq is happening right now to sell a war with Iran. They are saying the exact same things!! Here is the video evidence, side-by-side with what they said about Iraq."
Broadcasters who foment human rights abuse, violence, or war should lose their license. Until that happens, we can boycott their advertisers.
If you listen to Fox News, or most talk radio, you are getting Republican propaganda, misinformation, hate speech, and other distractions that include considerable spam (advertising). Since it is all corporate, by now you are used to it.
Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers (8/20/2009)
Republicans sponsored a huge scam on America. Their regressive agenda, virulently anti-union, pushed wages down, made pensions a thing of the past, fostered predatory lending for almost everyone, found nothing wrong with obscene CEO salaries or taxpayer funded bonuses for failed banks, made healthcare a profiteering industry, and even attempted to privatize Social Security. The result of deregulation, privatization, tax cuts for the wealthy has been a new gilded age, a huge downsizing of the middle class, a financial sector that devoured the rest of the economy then pretty much collapsed, and made the US military larger than the rest of the world's combined. Most Corporations paid NO taxes though, and they were free to use the environment as their very own dump.
Fox, News Corp, and other right-wing media not only enabled the disaster, they continue to sell the regressive Republican agenda. It has made a lot of people poor for the benefit of a very wealthy few. (It's called corruption and is one of the symptoms of a banana republic.) When Corporations control the government, that is the very definition of fascism. This may be a Weimar moment.
8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization (10/24/2009)
Fox News Caught Repeatedly Cropping, Manipulating Video (5/5/2009)
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Not Only Is Fox's Glenn Beck a Bigot, He's Also a Lunatic (1/23/2009)
Petition Against FOX'S Hate-Filled Smears:
Murdoch Agrees With Beck That Obama Is A Racist
Tough New White House Line on FOX News: It's War (10/12/2009)
Muslim Madness (8/21/2010)
Fox accuses White House of trying to impose Sharia law in US
No, this isn't an April Fool's joke. Fox is seriously accusing
the Obama administration of seeking to impose Sharia law in the United ...
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Fox Attacks Unions
Fox hosts make it clear they are simply against unions. When they insist
that union bosses - not employers - are intimidating workers, or when they
declare that unions that drive up wages and benefits are harmful for Big
Business, it's clear whose side they're on - and it's not the American
worker's.
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Democratic party leaders wisely decided that Fox is incapable of hosting a Presidential debate. Anyway, based on their prior performance, media should be kept off the stage in any candidate debates. Private, for-profit electioneering is corrosive of the political process.
Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, was Nixon's media adviser.
Environment
Fox attacks the environment. (video)
How much can you learn from Fox News ? You should know how Fox reported on BGH...or on Obama
What If Fox News Actually Wants Mob Violence? (3/21/2010)
Republicans use CIA propaganda tools domestically
Thanks to the terrific work of the News Hounds, we bring you Fox and ole' Billy O'Reilly attacking decency. Yes, you read that right. The self-righteous, pompous, bloviators who deign to lecture on how we should behave in our personal lives, are in fact exploiting women, pandering to the lowest common denominator and pushing smut out on the airwaves on a daily basis! Watch the video: http://foxattacks.com/decency?utm_source=rgemail
Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'reilly.com
Clarence Thomas and Rupert Murdoch
Jon Wiener | Rupert Murdoch paid Clarence Thomas $1.5 million for his new memoir. Doesn't that create an "appearance of impropriety"?
The White House Takes on the Press (10/8/2009)
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Video
OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (a documentary you can watch on-line.)
Bibliography
Fair and Balanced, My Ass: an unbridled look at the bizarre reality of Fox News: Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer
War at the Wall Street Journal: Sarah Ellison (Excerpt Vanity Fair 6/2010)
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff
Lies (and the Lying Liers who tell them) a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right: Al Franken
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations: Al Franken