Fox News gives Iraq war less attention (AP)

[sampsonblk]

Fox News gives Iraq war less attention (AP)

...Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism....

...If Fox's audience is dominated by Republicans who are disgusted about hearing bad news on Iraq, it would stand to reason that you'd want to feed them less of it. Bill O'Reilly touched upon that idea on the air one night last December, telling viewers that the lowest-rated segment of his show the previous night was when Iraq was discussed. Ratings jumped at talk about Britney Spears, he said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_en_tv/ap_on_tv_fox_s_war

[greenbriar]

1. so then is it safe to say that faux noise is the equivalent to the National Enquirer

of printed news

[Bluzmann57]

2. Of course they do

I mean Paris Hilton is in jail! This is a national emergency! The Iraq war? Just another day at the office. Ho hum.

[patrice]

3. The Conservative commentator on with Stephanopulous this a.m.

. . . don't know her name (pretty, young, Black, female) when asked about the lack of coverage concerning Pace's stepping down as JCOS this week, said she was very interested in everything PH. What's that tell us?

"Distraction, 'Conservative' is thy name."

P.S. Are those weekly talking-points meetings with Norquist still going on?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yuo mean Pace right

but I get the point

[patrice]

8. Right . . . please excuse my brain fart!

I must STOP multi-tasking!

[rodeodance]

4. the dumbing down (more) of America is in full swing.

[DFW]

6. Well, of course they are

Things in Iraq are, after all in their last throes.

Meanwhile, the baseball season is just heating up.........

[muntrv]

7. Faux Snooze new slogan: "Your celebrity circle jerk station."

[Catherine Vincent]

9. That goes to show you there isn't that much good news in Iraq to report.

Because if there were, Fox Noise would focus more on that than the bad news. But what do they do instead? They just don't report.

Talk about sticking your head in the sand....Fox style.