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Dropping the pretense
DROPPING THE PRETENSE.... Obviously, far-right activists are entitled to host "Tea Parties" next week to complain about ... whatever it is that makes them so angry. But Fox News' decision to do promotional work for the events, as if the...
VIDEO: Fox News Signs On To Tea Party Agenda, Aggressively Promoting Anti-Obama Protests
VIDEO: Fox News Signs On To Tea Party Agenda, Aggressively Promoting Anti-Obama Protests
thinkprogress.org — Organizers of the radical anti-Obama “tea party” protests have been trying to claim that the events are rising up spontaneously. Many of these organizers, such as Eric Odom, are claiming that the tea parties are being held by “ regular American[s] in ... (more) VIDEO: Fox News Signs On To Tea Party Agenda, ...
The Tea Party Movement: Who's In Charge?
politics.theatlantic.com — Here is the organizational landscape of the April 15 tea party movement, in a nutshell: three national-level conservative groups, all with slightly different agendas, are guiding it. All are quick to tell you that the movement is a bottom-up affair ... (more) The Tea Party Movement: Who's In Charge?
Fox host: ‘It’s now my great duty to promote the tea parties. Here we go!’
Fox host: ‘It’s now my great duty to promote the tea parties. Here we go!’
thinkprogress.org — Fox News host Neil Cavuto regularly claims that when he aggressively advocates for the anti-Obama “tea party” protests on air, he is simply covering them as a journalist. But Stuart Varney, Cavuto’s fill-in host, admitted this ... (more) Fox host: ‘It’s now my great duty to promote the tea ...
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Shakesville — Do the right-wingers and people at Fox News who are organizing and promoting all these anti-tax "Tea Parties" around the country next week and exhorting people to "tea-bag" their Congressional representatives actually know that there's a whole other meaning to the term " ...

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mediamatters.org 4/16/2009 — As Media Matters for America has documented , Fox News aggressively promoted the April 15 " FNC Tax Day Tea Parties" and encouraged viewers to get involved with tea party protests across the country. During the lead-up to the April 15 protests, ...
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mediamatters.org 4/20/2009 — According to the Los Angeles Times , Fox News "[n]etwork executives vigorously dispute the notion that the channel has a conservative slant. Although its popular prime-time commentators may be largely on the political right, the channel plays it ...
Eric Boehlert: Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party
mediamatters.org 10/13/2009 — Fox News has changed the rules. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News. Rupert Murdoch's cable cabal is now, first and foremost, a political entity. Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama ...
Fox News, NRO, Limbaugh run with "death book" smears
mediamatters.org 8/25/2009 — Following false accusations that Democrats' health care reform legislation would institute "death panels" for the elderly, H. James Towey claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the Obama administration revived a Veterans Health Administration ...
Fox News again declares ownership with label "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties"
mediamatters.org 4/16/2009 — Fox News again declares ownership with label "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties" Summary: For at least the second time in three days, Fox News aired on-screen text describing "tea party" protests that Fox News hosts will be attending as "FNC Tax Day Tea ...
Fox News misses the point
washingtonmonthly.com 2/12/2009 — FOX NEWS MISSES THE POINT.... Even by Fox News standards, yesterday was more embarrassing than most. In the morning, the Senate Republican Communications Center sent Fox News a press release, talking about how the economic stimulus bill grew over time....
Eric Boehlert: 30 reasons why Fox News is not legit
mediamatters.org 25 days ago — "Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information." -- Society of Professional Journalists Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, ...
What Obama’s Doing With Fox News
whatever.scalzi.com 25 days ago — I think some people are under the impression that the White House wants Fox News to disappear. Nothing, I suspect, could be further from the truth. The White House is in fact delighted that Fox News and its merry cast of commentators exists. Nor is ...
Eric Boehlert: The myth of Fox News' ratings spike
mediamatters.org 18 days ago — 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. No matter how many times ...
Interesting use of the word 'we'
washingtonmonthly.com 2/11/2009 — INTERESTING USE OF THE WORD 'WE'.... It's a good thing Fox News doesn't have any journalistic credibility, or this might be embarrassing. During the February 10 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that "the Senate is...