For Fox News, ‘Bad Guy’ Michael Brown Makes Obama a ‘Three-Time Loser’
How Fox News covered the Ferguson grand jury announcement.
Press Latched On to Snowden’s ‘Dropout’ Status
Edward Snowden has been characterized as many things in recent weeks, but journalists’ discounting him as a “high-school dropout” speaks volumes about media portrayals of education.
Fox’s ‘Best Journalistic Instincts’ Are Nothing to Write Home About
New York Times media reporter David Carr (11/12/12) had some kind words for Fox News Channel‘s Election Night coverage: On Tuesday night, the people in charge of Fox News were confronted with a stark choice after it became clear that Mr. Romney had fallen short: was Fox, first and foremost, a place for advocacy or […]
Great Moments in Fox News Assassination Plotting
Last night’s O’Reilly Factor (10/13/11), with guest Megyn Kelly, talking about how to deal with Iran: BILL O’REILLY: What do we do? MEGYN KELLY: It’s a political question for President Obama and a military question for him, but it’s not really much of a legal question because legally he can do it. O’REILLY: OK. KELLY: […]
Fox News Is Outraged by Nazi Analogies—and Other Big Lies
It is bizarre to see Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly denying that pundits from her network compare people to Nazis—contrasting this reticence to Rep. Steve Cohen (D.-Tenn.), who said calling healthcare reform a “government takeover of healthcare” was “a big lie. Just like Goebbels.” In fact, such comparisons are common currency on Fox News and […]
Fox Extends GOP’s Fantasyland Railway
Noting that “Republicans and their adjunct outlets have been touting one specific lie above all others lately”–that of a fictitious “$8 billion earmark in the stimulus package to build a high-speed rail connector between Las Vegas and Disneyland”–Political Animal blogger Steve Benen reports (WashingtonMonthly.com, 3/3/09) that “yesterday, Fox News gave the story a twist, changing […]
