FOX News Accused of 'Deliberately Avoiding Covering the Hacking Scandal' - NOTW Phone Hacking

[The Hitman]

Run time: 03:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7rgX3vk4I   Posted on YouTube: July 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: NOTWPhoneHacking Views on YouTube: 304   Posted on DU: July 15, 2011 By DU Member: The Hitman Views on DU: 6141

 
"Anyone want to talk about the story we're not covering?"

"Not with a ten foot poll..."

So much for the "we report" part of their slogan.

[Drale]

1. *GASP!!*

Faux News lying? My entire world view is shaken!!!

[curiousdemo]

8. I'm sure Kira

was uncomfortable covering this story as well. Her husband left CNN to join Fox News. What the Hell was he thinking....You're looking at the beginning of the end of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal as we know. :nuke:

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Good riddance.

I hope Rupert and son wind up in prison.

[blackbart99]

20. I know Curious...I know.......

I'm an atheist, but I just might try praying for this outcome. It can't hurt...can it?

Dear Lord...(if you really exist)...pretty please...we beg of thee....Give us a fucking break here!
Amen ramen noodles. Ok maybe I'd have better luck with his noodly appendage. Oh great flying
spaghetti monster.....I will eat pasta daily if you deliver us from evil. Budda....help a brother out
would ya? Allah...(for christ sake) a little help over hear. Hey L. Ron....maybe you could talk
to the alien supreme beings for us...and get us a little reprieve.

Join in everyone...and at least keep your fingers crossed. Hey Hey Rupert Bye Bye!!

[duhneece]

30. Be still, my heart...

Am I too hopeful as I agree that this COULD be the beginning of the end for Fox "news"?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Give them a break...

They're still working on the "Rupert Murdock, MSNBC Chairman" graphic.

[TrollBuster9090]

3. Hilarious! I'm glad CNN finally called them out on this. nt

[Kurmudgeon]

4. That was sweet to watch!

[AlbertCat]

5. C'mon! Like they're really a NEWS organization! Pul-leez!

:eyes:

[Raschel]

6. One said, "I'm not gonna touch it." Steven Colbert said, "Fox News, we don't touch it, you decide"

"rofl"

[AsahinaKimi]

7. Yeah in that little Fox News room if you look close enough

You can see, off to the right, at an angle, a ten TON Elephant in the room.

[chalky]

9. Seriously? "Maybe a fair question could be, 'Is CNN overcovering this?'"

I'm going to say, "HELL, NO!"

[Lars77]

10. A ten-foot turban? nt

[thereismore]

29. That's what I heard. nt

[spicegal]

11. If I had to guess I'd say that Fox is well aware that most

of it's viewers are semi literate and/or just plain ignorant, therefore won't be getting their news from any written sources. They watch Fox because they don't like to read. So, it would be safe for the Wall Street Journal, or any other Murdoch owned written publication, to have a front page story. Fox News, on the other hand, is geared toward the mindless clueless neanderthal right wing crowd, so not surprising they aren't talking about the scandal.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Well it's not exactly a place on the dial where one would tune in to...

for a grain of truth, about anything.

[Enthusiast]

14. Why would anyone want

this much media power concentrated in the hands of one man? It is just ridiculous.

[idiotgardener]

15. I wonder what Fox viewers' reaction would be.

Seriously, I wonder if they would think it's a scandal or just standard business practice.

[valerief]

28. They would think whatever they were told to think by Fox. nt

[bulloney]

16. Faux Snooze: We ignore. You deride.

[efhmc]

17. Did NOT say with a ten foot pole. She said a 10 ft turban.

[boycottfaux]

18. Duh

And faux employees are still not touching it with a
"ten-foot turbin" . .

In fact, Doocey is complaining that the media is overblowing
the story  . .

Faux would rather beat the Mr. Obama's forcing us to use
'energy-saving lightbulbs' story to death and too bad the
Casey Anthony trial is over . .

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you!

I wonder how many Fox viewers don't know this is even going on?

[boycottfaux]

22. ALL OF THEM

Faux viewers proudly exclaim "I only watch faux for the
real news' (remember the teabagger rallies?)

[WhoIsNumberNone]

25. It was a rhetorical question

But I'm sure a few of those zeebs must have found out by accident when they were visiting their loony liberal cousin or something- not to say they wouldn't have dismissed it as liberal media propaganda, but it's hard to live in a complete vacuum...

[GreenTea]

21. Slimy Republican propaganda Fox "news" - Lie, Distort & Smear!

[JAnthony]

23. Faux Snooze, still busy covering the "Wieiner" scandal, and the

President's lack of bowing down to let Boehner and the idiots run the country!

Come on, Rupert Murdoch is only about the 10th richest person in the world, now accused of crimes in the UK and being investigated by our own FBI... that' NOT NEWS!!!!! That's liberal agenda-driven partisanship!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[center rising]

24. Did anyone expect anything different??

[Beer Snob-50]

26. watched a little bit of faux last night

the big story...."president obama and his white house has refused to deal with faux news" funny, early on the same day, a white house official was on faux discussing something and the president did have an in depth discussion with bill o'reilly.

[RZM]

27. They are giving it minimal coverage

They did a piece about it on Special Report a few days ago. The host made rather lame attempt to reassure viewers that they were indeed covering it. He said something like: 'we're staying on top of this.'

A search for the phrase 'phone hacking' on the Fox News website comes up with this list:

http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=phone+hacking&submit=Search

Most of the hits are from Fox Business.