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White House advisers say Fox News is not news

White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president's inner circle that the cable network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming "is geared toward making money."

UK supermarket pulls ad from Fox News over Beck

Upscale British supermarket chain Waitrose said Monday it was pulling its advertisements from Fox News in the U.K. after customers complained about the cable news channel's Glenn Beck program.

Look who's calling whom a liar now

Harry S. Truman banned reporters he disliked from his presidential yacht. Franklin Roosevelt placed his journalistic critics out of earshot at the back of the room during presidential press conferences.

Glenn Beck gets ceremonial key to hometown city

Glenn Beck received a ceremonial, plaque-mounted key to the city from the mayor of his hometown, as well as a minute-long standing ovation as hundreds of protesters gathered outside.

News Corp. forms new editorial unit

News Corp. said Tuesday it is forming a new portal that will allow the sharing of content between its journalism properties, which include The Wall Street Journal, The Times in the U.K. and Fox News.

Fox News columnist out after 'Wolverine' story

Fox News columnist Roger Friedman is out after posting a story of a leaked full-length work print of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

Fox News launches Web site FoxNation.com

Fox News has started a Huffington Post-style Web site in an attempt to increase the network's online reach.

Obama sets cool, casual tone for new White House

Barack Obama has gone coatless in the Oval Office. His meetings sometimes run late. He opened a session with corporate CEOs with good-natured grousing about his kids' snow days. And he gave GOP congressmen the green light to take a "whack" at him on Fox News.

Alan Colmes plays Colbert's sidekick for a day

Divorced from his longtime co-host Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes was adopted by Stephen Colbert — for a day, at least. On Monday's "The Colbert Report," Colbert introduced the Fox News commentator as his new co-host.

Bill O'Reilly to end syndicated radio show

Fox News Channel said popular cable TV host Bill O'Reilly will step down as the host of his syndicated talk radio show early next year.

Bill O’Reilly’s Web site hacked

Days after Fox News political pundit Bill O’Reilly condemned the cracking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account, his own Web site fell victim to political hacktivism. Over the weekend, over 205 plain text passwords belonging to BillOreilly.com site members spread across the Internet.

US nuclear envoy meets China in N. Korea impasse

The top U.S. nuclear envoy met with his Chinese counterpart Saturday as part of the latest round of talks aimed at breaking a deadlock over verification of North Korea's nuclear programs.

Fox: Jackson used N-word in crude off-air remarks

The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.

Rove defends defiance of congressional subpoena

Former White House adviser Karl Rove on Monday defended his defiance of a congressional subpoena, saying he's offered lawmakers other ways to question him about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department.

Report: Donaghy made 134 calls to fellow referee

Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy made more than 100 phone calls to a fellow official at the same time he was providing information to gamblers during the 2006-07 season, Fox News reported Monday.

Cancer claims ex-Bush press secretary Tony Snow

Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.

Favre tempted to hit camp to call Packers' 'bluff'

Brett Favre says he's tempted to show up at the Green Bay Packers' training camp just to call the team's "bluff."

Huckabee joining Fox News as political commentator

Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.

It was a tough TV season for Regis, ‘Trek’ alums

Nobody stays on top forever in TV. Except for Johnny Carson, but there's strong evidence he was really a comedy cyborg from Perseus 3. Even the most successful show business movers and shakers go through periods when nothing's moving or shaking.

Judge tosses school official's lawsuit against Fox News

A federal judge has thrown out a school superintendent's lawsuit against Fox News, saying the cable news channel acted unprofessionally but without malice when anchors on "Fox and Friends" reported a parody story about ham as fact last year.

Fox News employee sues over workplace bedbug bites

A Fox News employee sued the landlord of her company's office building on Thursday, claiming she got bedbug bites at work.

Networks, AP sue in South Dakota over exit polling

The three major networks, CNN, Fox News and The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal judge to strike down a South Dakota law that prevents exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.

'Fox News Sunday' Prods Obama on No-Show

Hoping to prod Barack Obama into appearing on its show, "Fox News Sunday" launched the "Obama Watch," a weekly update on the number of days the Democratic presidential candidate has failed to appear on the program.

Small Explosion at Fox News Building

A chemical used in the heating and cooling system at the building that houses Fox News fell on the floor and mixed with another substance Monday, triggering a small explosion, firefighters said.

Immigration Talk Follows McCain to Iowa

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has a message for critics of the immigration compromise he helped devise.

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Murdoch Agrees With Beck: Obama Is a Racist
Source: Media Matters for America

Today, Media Matters for America denounced Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, who recently declared that Glenn Beck was "right" when he called President Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

Engage and criticize: Obama's split media strategy
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The same president who aggressively harnesses the power of the press to promote his agenda has taken to lacing his comments with criticisms of the media, with no bigger target than the gabby culture of cable television. President Barack Obama's critique is biting: The media pref …

Glenn Beck Loses Arbitration Over Online Accusation That He "Raped and Murdered A Young Girl In 1990"
Source: thresq.com

Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost a claim that a website called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was registered in bad faith and in violation of his trademark rights.

How Is The Fort Hood Attack "Terrorism?" If Attacking Military Troops Is "Terrorism" Isn't War Itself "Terrorism?"
Source: Salon.com

The incomparably pernicious Joe Lieberman said yesterday on Fox News that he intends to launch an investigation into "the motives of [Nidal] Hasan in carrying out this brutal mass murder, if a terrorist attack, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11."  Hasan's attack was carri …

Glenn Beck Meets Internet, Loses
Source: Gawker

Maybe Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, and maybe he didn't.

News Corp. willing to make its websites invisible to Google
Source: digitaljournal.com

Rupert Murdoch, owner of the News Corporation, announced in a Sky News interview that he's thinking of removing his websites from Google's indexing spiders that crawl the Internet...

SNL Spoofs Fox News: 2009 Elections -The End of an Era
Source: Crooks and Liars

This is freakin hilarious! A must watch if you haven't seen it.

Fox News Boston's marijuana hit piece on Barney Frank
Source: Examiner

Fox News Boston must be high if they think America cares about marijuana any more.

The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down
Source: The New York Times

Some interesting observations in this opinion piece. Not all of them good for Democrats. FOX News election coverage and the Confederacy of Dunces.

SNL: Fox News Election Recap.
Source:

A fitting parody of Fox News after election night.

Rupert Murdock a Perspective

Rupert Murdoch of News Corp / Fox News Admits Manipulating the News for Agenda - Admits he supported the Bush Agenda in Iraq - He is part of the Bilderburg group - This is why Fox News had an agenda against Ron Paul in the 2008 Presidential Election.

An All-Out Attack on 'Conservative Misinformation'
Source: The New York Times

Media Matters says it does not coordinate its efforts with the Obama campaign — the campaign has its own media-criticism Web site, FightTheSmears.com — though some Democratic operatives have, at the least, suggested potential items to Media Matters over the years.

Comparing Fox and CNN Through a Funhouse Mirror
Source: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Once you've given up trying to defend the idea that Fox News' "Fair and Balanced" slogan can be understood as anything other than irony, the fallback position is generally that everyone else is just as biased.

Chapter 10 of Mein Kampf

"A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth" --- Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Propaganda, 1933- 1945 Goebbels was just articulating a concept put forth years earlier in chaper 10 of Mein Kampf:

The cold, hard facts about Fox News
Source: WorldNetDaily News

I spoke at a recent town-hall forum. The many issues discussed included the Obama administration's attack on Fox News. Later, one of the audience members came up to me and sneered, "Well, even you must admit that Fox News is biased in favor of Republicans."

FOX News Ratings Spike Not True
Source: Crooks and Liars

Fact: The breathless claim that Fox News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is bogus hype -- hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed.

Yet Another FOX News Lie
Source: newsbusters.org

The article speaks for itself. FOX News lies yet again.

Who Are You Calling a Narcissist, Rush?
Source: The New York Times

I had a four-hour dinner once with Rush Limbaugh at the "21" Club in Manhattan, back in the days when I was still writing profiles as a "reporterette," to use a Limbaugh coinage.

Let's wish him well! Glenn Beck had an appendicitis attack
Source:

FNC host Glenn Beck had an appendicitis attack during his radio show today. Chris Balfe, President of Mercury Radio Arts, Beck's production company, confirmed that Beck had his appendix removed today at an undisclosed hospital.

Media Matters & President Obama in Lockstep
Source: American Thinker

"Here's my big question: If a Republican President were acting in lockstep with a billionaire-financed 527 group in the rhetorical assassination of independent media organizations and individuals, wouldn't this be really hard-news news?"

Michelle Bachmann And Fox News Team Up
Source: airamerica.com

Fox News' Gretchen Carlson took some time to talk with her former nanny, Michele Bachmann, about the Congresswoman's planned "Town Hall" meeting against Health Care reform that will be held Thursday on the steps of the Capitol Building.

Hillary Clinton goes on Fox News - Pakistan Discussed
Source: FOXNews.com

I was surprised to see Hillary on Fox News! I've got to say, Hillary did a good job in Pakistan and explains the situation well in this interview.

The myth of Fox News' ratings spike | Media Matters for America
Source: Media Matters for America

Fact: The breathless claim that Fox News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is bogus hype -- hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed. It's just not true.

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