Reformist DAs Spark Murdoch Empire Freakout
Rupert Murdoch’s biggest outlets have spent the beginning of 2022 on a full-scale attack against progressive criminal justice reform.
Fox Sports Acknowledges That Lying to Viewers Is ‘Misleading’
Fox Sports, covering a football game between the Chicago Bears and Atlanta Falcons (9/11/11), put up a bunch of headlines about Bears quarterback Jay Cutler’s knee problems: Cutler Leaves With Injury Cutler Lacks Courage Cutler’s No Leader “These are the actual headlines from the local papers in Chicago,” announcer Daryl Johnston declared. Wow, were the […]
Murdoch’s Journal Defends Bosses on News Corp Scandal
In the wake of the News Corp scandal and the resignation of their own paper’s publisher/CEO, the editors of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal came out swinging today (7/18/11) against critics who would question the Journal‘s own standards and even “perhaps injure press freedom in general.” Today’s editorial first goes for deflection: Scotland Yard’s failure […]
Olbermann: O’Reilly’s Hacking Hypocrisy
On Tuesday FAIR documented that Fox host Bill O’Reilly called for the prosecution of media outlets that published Sarah Palin’s hacked emails in 2008—which might mean, if he were at all consistent, that O’Reilly wants to see his boss Rupert Murdoch do some hard time over the far more serious News Corp. hacking scandal. FAIR’s […]
Fox Media Show Skips Murdoch Scandal
Fox News Channel airs a weekly media criticism show called Fox News Watch. Disgraced New York Times reporter Judith Miller is one of the panelists because…well, it’s Fox. TVNewser noticed that the show posts a web video of the chatter among the panelists during commercial breaks. On this weekend’s show, they started talking about how […]
Fox News Finds ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Financier…Close to Home
Starting about a minute in,this clip from last night’s Daily Show is must-see media criticism. On the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, it is revealed thatthe Kingdom Foundation is a dangerous Saudi organization that, according to guest Dan Senor, funds radical madrassas and has also funded Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam at the […]
Glenn Beck: Some Rockefeller Was Some Form of Enemy
Mark Howard of News Corpse (9/3/09) has a look at a September 2 Fox News “sermon” in which Glenn Beck “has used his divine vision to reveal the evidence of Satan’s secret seeds” in the form of “paintings and sculptures and other works by historyâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s subversives–the artists!” As Beck “associates the evil artists with their […]
Can Shock Radio Save the Fox Business Network?
News Corpse blogger Mark Howard (8/10/09) calls the fact that “industry sources are reporting that Don Imus is in talks with the Fox Business Network to simulcast his Imus in the Morning radio program” a “de facto admission by FBN that they have failed to attract an audience capable of sustaining the network.” Howard sees […]
Owners ‘Call the Tune’ in Reported MSNBC-Fox Truce
Former TV Newser Brian Stelter’s article (New York Times, 8/7/09) about MSNBC and Fox News having “resumed their long-running feud this week after the New York Times reported that their parent companies, General Electric and the News Corporation, had struck a deal to stop each other’s televised personal attacks” states that “the deal extends beyond […]
‘No Worries’ in Fox Coverage of Murdoch Crimes
News Corpse blogger Mark Howard (7/8/09) has linked to a London Guardian “story that simply must be read”: Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. The payments secured […]
Fox: ‘Pathetically Ignorant or Desperately Dishonest’?
Doling out “a little positive reinforcement” when Fox News “actually gets something right,” Mark Howard of News Corpse (6/18/09) agrees with Sean Hannity’s declaration of “the death of journalism”–though disagreeing with the context of Fox‘s pronouncement, being their assertion that a scheduled ABC News broadcast “that would delve into the pros and cons of the […]
GOP’s Helpful Pundits Reinforce Public Fear
Noticing how “in the past week, Republican politicians and pundits have been striving mightily to invoke fear in the hearts of the American people,” News Corpse blogger Mark Howard has collected (5/25/09) some choice quotes from GOP members “blanketing the airwaves with assertions that President Obama’s policies on national security (Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, torture, etc.) […]
Selective Coverage of Selective Catholic Principles
Media critic blogger Mark Howard (News Corpse, 5/16/09) has a problem with the voluble media controversy over “the fact that Obama’s pro-choice position is in conflict with [Notre Dame] University’s Catholic principles”–namely, “neither the Catholic protesters nor the media ever threw similar tantrums when George W. Bush delivered the commencement speech in 2001, after receiving […]
Brit Hume Lives Up to His William F. Buckley Award
News Corpse blogger Mark Howard goes deep into the belly of the beast (3/21/09) with a look at some revealing comments from Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume upon receiving the William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence: “Thanks to Brent [Bozell] and the team at the Media Research Center…for the tremendous amount […]
Right-Wing Media’s ‘Fairness’ Bogeyman
News Corpse blogger Mark Howard chronicles (11/12/08) how “pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, etc.” are not just “on the wrong side of public opinion in the recently concluded election,” but “are also losing listeners and viewers who are rapidly awakening to the dishonesty and hostility wafting through the conservative media’s airwaves”: In […]
