Salon.com: Fox News gets blown away

[mcscajun]

Not that we didn't know this already...but isn't it fine to see in print, in detail? (emphasis mine)

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Whereas rival CNN has torn up its regular programming and dispatched an army of staffers to the ravaged region, Fox News appears to be going through the motions on the colossal story. Rather than breaking news, Fox feeds off partisan sparks. And it's hard to get angry about a natural disaster because empathy does not lend itself to outrage -- although that hasn't stopped the high-priced talking heads at Fox from trying to turn the tsunami into a contentious issue.

Two things have become obvious to news consumers in the aftermath of the tsunami. The first is that even when faced with covering a global humanitarian crisis, Fox News is incapable of turning off its robotic partisanship, not to mention its ever-present sense of victimization. Secondly, Fox News can barely call itself a serious news-gathering operation.

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CNN has roughly 75 staffers fanned out across the region, including "NewsNight's" Aaron Brown in Indonesia, and morning host Soledad O'Brien in Thailand. At broadcast networks, "CBS Evening News'" Dan Rather and "NBC Nightly News'" Brian Williams were both sent to the region to anchor broadcasts, as was ABC's Diane Sawyer, and scores of other celebrity journalists.

But not Fox News. With its competitors dispatching their A-teams to South Asia, Fox's big guns -- O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Chris Wallace, Greta Van Susteren -- all remained safely ensconced inside East Coast studios. That's because they're not reporters but Beltway creatures of comfort, who rarely stray beyond the 202 and 212 area codes.

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/07/foxnews/index.html

[xultar]

1. Nuh-Nah Nah Nah --- Nuh-Nah Nah Nah --- HEY HEY HEY Good Bye!!

Buhwaaaaaaaaaaa!

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[mcscajun]

5. None taken...but did you read the whole article?

It's not about this week, or last week, or whether they should cover it more than the US or less than the US.

It's about Fox not being a 'news organization' but being a bitter, partisan hate-fest, and CNN showing them up in the news-gathering effort overall since the tsunami hit.

[bobbobbins]

6. no offense, but....im about to say something insanely stupid

[Skittles]

15. you and me both, bobbo

just barely holding myself in check :grrr:

[hatrack]

9. Whole S. Asian countries hate America. Every single citizen, you mean?

Therefore they don't deserve your sympathy. OK, whatever.

Whenever the next tornado cruises through your neighborhood, or you get hit by an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, or an ice storm, or a hurricane, or a heat wave, I'll try not to get all sympathetic on you.

Maybe you better pray a little harder. You need it. :eyes:

[genieroze]

14. ery importion issues being debated in the US at this very moment?

Things like da Pwesidents new puppy?

[Kosmos Mariner]

20. Hmmm......

I think you are looking for www.freerepublic.com, that's where all of the Christo-fascists hang out. :hi:


:dem:

[LisaLynne]

3. Really puts it into perspective, doesn't it?

FOX is all about anger. They can't report on something that's real news if they can't spin it. It shows that they aren't at all a real news agency, because they don't have anyone capable of getting out there and reporting on something like this.

[yellowcanine]

11. KInd of like Bill Frist lamenting the fact that we can't blame it on

anyone. At least it sounded like a lament to me. Sorry, too long past - I don't have the link.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Gosh doesn't the writer know that they are only really good at

smearing, car chases, and murder?

The policies of that corporation come from top down.

Take a look at Murdoch.

[mcscajun]

18. The Writer knows...

...and is trying to tell the rest who don't.

[fairfaxvadem]

7. It was the same thing on 9/11/01.

All the news organizations had folks on the ground, except FOX, as I recall. They were getting their stuff from other sources, and it was shortly afterwards where I read some commentary on the coverage that FOX doesn't actually have a news department or any of the "normal" reporting abilities and had to rely on others for feed in NYC and elsewhere.

Guess nothing's changed, but I'm not surprised.

[Mist]

8. I'm glad I never watch FAUX

I can't take the rage-fest of FAUX. And of course they're not reporters--just bloviators. How are they managing to feel victimized by the tsunami?

[mcscajun]

12. Don't ask me...I Never Watch Them...Never.

I just...can't do it.

[Kber]

16. My sister watches fox new regularly

as part of what she calls "Enemy Ops". On her recommendation, I've blocked the fox news channel from my cable because she thinks it would be potentially damaging if my kid accidently landed on that channel while innocently looking for the cartoon network.

Apparently they are pretty bad huh?

Seriously though, I can't stand them and take my hat off to those of you with stronger stomachs who monitor what the crazies are saying.

[mcscajun]

17. She's a brave soul, your sister...

...I have a repuke sister (yeah, I know...) who does watch Fox...if she puts it on when I visit her I just HAVE to leave early. My stomach, heart and lungs just can't take it.

[Kber]

19. Braver than me - that's for sure

She did go throuh a bit of an existential crisis right after the election when she realized that although she has lived in several states and has family in many places, the've always been "blue" states. Even the republicans she know were of the more "reasonable" type who you can talk to logically (many even voted for Kerry last year), so she was pretty shocked when the election results came back. Honestly, that's when she started watching fox and even (gulp!) listening to right wing radio sometimes. She "wants to know what they are planning so we can react better next time".

I figure she's young and strong, so I'll let her man the front lines and report back as necessary.

Sorry about your sis. Maybe she'll come to see the light some day!

[Catfight]

10. FOX is the pioneer of the decline of real TV and certainly FOX has

nothing to do with actual news reporting. It's just entertainment in the form of news, viewers who don't think like that stimulation, it's a pacifier for the mindless.

[Old and In the Way]

13. Fox has no interest in world events, unless it can promote the .

the Republican agenda.

They strictly cater to the "USA-USA-USA" crowd. Last thing they want to do is have their programees become aware that there is a world outside the US borders.

[rickrok66]

21. Fox News Overseas

I just served in Korea for two years. It is interesting how the BBC World News and CNN tailor their broadcasts for the region that they serve. Even MTV has an Asian version. Not Fox News, they still blast the same right wing in your face patriotism around the world 24 hours a day. They don't even try to alter their broadcast schedule for different time zones. It is also the same crappy stories - like Koreans or Filipinos care about Lacy Peterson or how "secularists" are destroying Christmas. Very disturbing to say the least.

[CatholicEdHead]

22. Murdoch's Network

this is even more intresting since Murdoch does have other international divisions. Yet NewsCorp of Australia and Sky News of the UK are also not getting involved to share resources (which you would think businessmen would want).

Internationally, I think that the Likud helped Israel block BBC World for Faux, as they show Israel in a better light more often that not. Murdoch also got BBC World taken off of Chinese media in a deal for his own news division.