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1. May 2, 2011 06:04 PM

   “I Am Not Reporting Anything to You”

   How Fox News, CNN handled the initial Bin Laden news

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   In the event that you were not watching cable news last night, rest assured that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer handled the breaking Bin Laden news (specifically, the hour or so before the president actually announced that “justice has been done”) exactly as you imagined they would. During the longer-than-expected wait between the announcement of President Obama’s...

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2. June 27, 2011 12:03 PM

   “Are You a Flake?”

   Wallace’s bad question an announcement-day gift for Bachmann

   By Joel Meares

   Michele Bachmann officially launched her campaign today in Waterloo, Iowa, the onetime hometown from which—according to a speech Bachmann gave on the eve of her announcement—her mother dragged her, crying, in 1968. The past week has been a doozy for anyone after material for their “Media’s mean to Bachmann” PowerPoint presentation. First, there was Matt Taibbi’s excoriating and entertaining—but,...

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3. February 7, 2011 12:44 PM

   “Bill, I know football.”

   O’Reilly and Obama in the Fox Bowl

   By Joel Meares

   So, it turns out Bill O’Reilly and the president give a better pregame show than Christina Aguilera. In the fifteen-minute live chat that preceded the cheeseheads’ victory last night, O’Reilly got his first bit of face time with Obama since the president assumed office and all-in-all he used it reasonably well. O’Reilly led with Egypt in typically blunt style—“Alright, Mubarak—is...

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4. February 24, 2011 02:44 PM

   NYT’s Scoop on an Alleged Roger Ailes Coverup

   Lawyers say the Fox chief urged Judith Regan to lie to the feds about Giuliani pal Bernie Kerik

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times has an excellent scoop out today that could mean trouble for Fox News's Roger Ailes. It's sure worth following. The paper reports that former News Corporation book publisher Judith Regan (and now her former lawyers) said that Ailes asked her to lie to the feds about her relationship with Bernie Kerik in order to help Rudy...

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5. May 6, 2011 12:35 PM

   And We’re Off!

   First debate low on candidates, substance, & attention

   By Clint Hendler

   The first debate of the 2012 presidential season took place last night in Greenville, South Carolina. If you missed it, you weren’t the only one. Take Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, and Michele Bachmann—all no shows. Also absent (or at least withholding coverage) was the Associated Press, who boycotted even their print output after learning that photography...

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6. March 7, 2012 01:29 AM

   Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg

   By Ryan Chittum

   Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W. Bush was in office, and its reactions today, when Barack Obama is. 2008: 2012: Back then, gas prices were based on global supply and demand issues at Fox, but now you'd think Obama single-handedly fixes prices. It's incredibly dishonest to...

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7. March 4, 2011 06:33 PM

   Audit Notes: Fox on the Overpaid, Winkler Smiles, FT Ads

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Fox News propaganda machine has been ramped up to portray $700 a week teachers and other government employees as overpaid, violent, journalist-hating wastrels milking the public dry while letting the Chinese beat our progeny at math. Leave it to Jon Stewart to point out how this contrasts with how some of the same mouthpieces Fox News treated the multimillionaires...

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8. July 20, 2011 12:50 AM

   Audit Notes: The Murdochs at Parliament, In the Journal, and Via Fox News

   By Ryan Chittum

   How sweet would it have been if The Guardian's Nick Davies had been on the committee questioning Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks today (although Tom Watson was pretty great)? Alas, we'll have to settle for a Davies column that deftly picks apart the Murdochs' evasions after the fact. First he shows how doddering Rupert and oily James were...

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9. March 3, 2011 01:02 PM

   CNBC Pushes the Financial-Terrorism Nonsense

   "Really good information" on why "outside forces may have" caused the 2008 Crash

   By Ryan Chittum

   I took the hammer to The Washington Times the other day for a dumb story on a report that says terrorists may have caused the financial crash of 2008. Now the best thing I can say for The Washington Times's is that it isn't known for its business journalism. Neither is Glenn Beck, and as predicted, Fox News loaded the...

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10. July 22, 2011 02:00 AM

    CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal

    Questions raised about primetime anchor's tenure as a tabloid editor

    By Ryan Chittum

    It would be rather ironic if Fox News enemy CNN turns out to have a hacking-scandal-by-association problem on its hands, brought on by News Corp.'s woes and CNN’s decision to hire a former British tabloid editor to anchor an hour of primetime. That might even perk up the folks at "Fox & Friends" on the importance of this whole hacking...

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11. December 10, 2010 07:42 AM

    Frank Luntz Rides Again

    The wordsmith and the public option

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using the phrase “public option” to describe a proposal hotly debated during the health reform debate. That option, proposed by Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker and embraced by some—but not all—of the progressive advocates, would have injected a real element...

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12. April 7, 2011 11:53 AM

    Glenn Beck Going Back to Silversmithing?

    Beck explains why he's jumping off the horse

    By Joel Meares

    First: a confession. I have not been a particularly diligent media reporter where Glenn Beck is concerned. In fact, I don’t think I have ever watched an episode or even a few minutes of his 5 p.m. Fox News program since its debut in 2009. My only experience with Beck, other than reading about him, was back in 2006...

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13. August 19, 2011 03:48 PM

    Jon Stewart On Fox’s Reverse Class Warfare

    Meantime, the Journal notes leading GOP candidates want to raise taxes... on the poor

    By Ryan Chittum

    Yesterday, The Daily Show had one of Jon Stewart's greatest takedowns of Fox News—which is saying something. The jumping-off point is Warren Buffett's recent New York Times op-ed in which he pointed out, as he has numerous times over the years, that billionaires like himself pay lower tax rates than their secretaries and called for tax increases on millionaires. That...

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14. September 18, 2012 03:28 PM

    Mitt Romney and the Lucky Duckies

    A gaffe created in the Fox News/WSJ editorial page echo chamber

    By Ryan Chittum

    Who are the 47 percent, why were Mitt Romney's comments on them so wrong, and how did Romney come to such a misunderstanding of the country? First, for background here's Romney's quote: All right, there are forty-seven per cent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a...

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15. April 25, 2012 03:53 PM

    Murdoch vs. Muto

    The "Fox News mole" is being charged for leaking to Gawker as Fox's corporate parent remains under fire for ethics violations

    By Kira Goldenberg

    Let me get this straight: Even as Rupert Murdoch’s media empire remains under official scrutiny for an allegedly extensive phone-hacking scandal, News Corp.-owned Fox News is going after a former employee for leaking internal information. That former employee is “Fox News Mole,” Joe Muto, who had been leaking inside details about Fox to Gawker (reportedly for money), but who lasted...

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16. January 20, 2011 03:05 PM

    New Survey Says Fox Least Trusted

    But there are more questions to be asked

    By Joel Meares

    Public Policy Polling yesterday released its annual study of people’s trust in TV news, and the results are sure to please Fox News detractors. Last year, 49 percent of respondents said they trusted Fox News Channel; this year just 42 percent do. Last year, 37 percent said they distrusted Fox; this year, 46 percent of respondents said they did. The...

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17. June 29, 2012 03:00 PM

    News Corp.’s digital divergence

    While print media converges on TV news

    By Felix Salmon

    There’s no secret why Rupert Murdoch is breaking News Corp into two pieces. Amy Chozick explains: News Corporation had evolved into a successful entertainment company with a newspaper problem, several people close to the company have said. “The idea this was this integrated media company isn’t true,” said one of those people, who was briefed on News Corporation’s strategy but...

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18. March 17, 2011 02:08 PM

    Pew’s Spin Through the Online Midterm News Cycle

    Survey shows where we got our 2010 campaign news

    By Joel Meares

    Reading through comment streams during last year’s midterms, one often had to ask: Where are people getting their “information” from? Thanks to Pew, we now know. Pew’s Internet and American Life Project released a new survey today titled “The Internet and Campaign 2010”. The study examines the way that American adults used the Internet during last year’s midterm campaigns....

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19. January 14, 2011 12:58 PM

    Play With The 2010 News Cycle Thanks To Pew

    How did Fox, NBC, NPR fill the year's "newshole"?

    By Joel Meares

    Forgive us for not noting this sooner—our attention has been devoted to the Giffords shooting and debates that followed. But a big hat-tip to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism for their interactive project “The 2010 Year in the News.” The tool allows you to compare and contrast the media’s coverage of 2010’s biggest stories, newsmakers, and...

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20. January 18, 2011 03:42 PM

    Roger Ailes in a Strange Light

    Esquire’s big, perplexing profile

    By Joel Meares

    Esquire’s Roger Ailes profile, available online today, is a strange and fascinating read—a kind of nuanced, satirical “F-you” to a subject who pleads for understanding but couldn't care less if you understand him or not.* Written by the reliable Tom Junod in the voice of a snarly Glenn Beck-like figure, it is part profile, part attack, part philosophical musing. (So...

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