Hillsagain, studies have shown again and again that Fox Noise watchers actually come to know LESS about facts and events than people who watch NO news at all. Fox is an embarrassment to Americans who have even half a brain. Facts are facts.
The fact is that Fox Keeps You Stupid, those facts have been documented. If anyone can bear to listen to that gibberish, what is their take on the sequester. I assume they are for it since they are a paid TV station for the failed Republicon Party.
The prospectus was utterly false: America's leading cable news network has become a megaphone for rightwing propaganda
Matthew Butler guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011 13.00
In January of 1996, at a press conference announcing the formation of Fox News, Roger Ailes told assembled reporters, "We just expect to do fine, balanced journalism."
Nine months later on 6 October 1996, the network went on air.
From the start, the channel was not your standard cable news network, and it certainly didn't live up to the promise of "balance". Former Fox News President Joe Peyronnin recounted, "There was a litmus test. Ailes was going to figure out who was liberal or conservative when he came in, and try to get rid of the liberals."
As he had done with Rush Limbaugh earlier in the decade, Roger Ailes's strategy at Fox was to bring conservative talk radio to television.
Along the way, the network has built up an incredible track record of smears, bigotry and lies.
Fox's bias was clear early on, but the 2000 election was where its true colors began to show.
Its polling arm would reportedly ask questions such as "Who would be the most likely to cheat at cards - Bill Clinton or Al Gore?"
Fox News Signal via Satellite is Blocked in Mexico
The Fox News channel that transmits news in English, was blocked this Sunday for subscribers of the Sky chain in Mexico, apparently for having violate the Mexican electoral law.
Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom. As a result of that law, Canadians enjoy high quality news coverage including the kind of foreign affairs and investigative journalism that flourished in this country before Ronald Reagan abolished the "Fairness Doctrine" in 1987. Political dialogue in Canada is marked by civility, modesty, honesty, collegiality, and idealism that have pretty much disappeared on the U.S. airwaves. When Stephen Harper moved to abolish anti-lying provision of the Radio Act, Canadians rose up to oppose him fearing that their tradition of honest non partisan news would be replaced by the toxic, overtly partisan, biased and dishonest news coverage familiar to American citizens who listen to Fox News and talk radio. Harper's proposal was timed to facilitate the launch of a new right wing network, "Sun TV News" which Canadians call "Fox News North."
Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known for having mounted a Bush like war on government scientists, data collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery; false patriotism, bigotry, fear, selfishness and belligerent religiosity.
Fox News Banned From Canada - Law Forbids Lying On Broadcast News. http://www.skepticmoney.com/fox-news-banned-from-canada-law-forbids-lying-on-broadcast-news/
Canadians already have access to the main Fox network, but not the right-leaning, 24-hour news channel, with its trademarked slogan of "fair and balanced."
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) opposed the application, saying it would discourage foreign broadcasters from partnering with Canadian broadcasters.
via Reader Supported News.
Maybe I will need to move to Canada!
America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News, fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canadian regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news. They would have to change the law to let FOX news be broadcast. Sounds like a good law. Hey Congress, here is a law you can pass!
People frequently refer to a court case that Fox won, which essentially gives the media the right to lie. This came from an appellate court decision that states that the FCC's news distortion policy does not qualify as a rule, law, or regulation.
Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie.
By Mike Gaddy. Published Feb. 28, 2003
The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers. Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news. The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.
In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was "totally vindicated" by the verdict.
What does This say about Obama's economy?..So fragile that a 2% cut to the "rate of growth" will send us into a tail-spin?....A Budget "FREEZE" would be a larger cut than the sequester cuts....everyone agrees Bush's Budgets were too large, but I don't think we will ever get back to his rate of spending. A budget cut that still spends more than last year is NOT a CUT.
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The prospectus was utterly false: America's leading cable news network has become a megaphone for rightwing propaganda
Matthew Butler
guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011 13.00
In January of 1996, at a press conference announcing the formation of Fox News, Roger Ailes told assembled reporters, "We just expect to do fine, balanced journalism."
Nine months later on 6 October 1996, the network went on air.
From the start, the channel was not your standard cable news network, and it certainly didn't live up to the promise of "balance". Former Fox News President Joe Peyronnin recounted, "There was a litmus test. Ailes was going to figure out who was liberal or conservative when he came in, and try to get rid of the liberals."
As he had done with Rush Limbaugh earlier in the decade, Roger Ailes's strategy at Fox was to bring conservative talk radio to television.
Along the way, the network has built up an incredible track record of smears, bigotry and lies.
Fox's bias was clear early on, but the 2000 election was where its true colors began to show.
Its polling arm would reportedly ask questions such as "Who would be the most likely to cheat at cards - Bill Clinton or Al Gore?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/07/fox-news-15-years
The Fox News channel that transmits news in English, was blocked this Sunday for subscribers of the Sky chain in Mexico, apparently for having violate the Mexican electoral law.
http://floppingaces.net/2006/06/27/fox-news-banned-in-mexico/
Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known for having mounted a Bush like war on government scientists, data collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery; false patriotism, bigotry, fear, selfishness and belligerent religiosity.
http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/174824-fox-news-banned-canada.html
http://www.skepticmoney.com/fox-news-banned-from-canada-law-forbids-lying-on-broadcast-news/
Canadians already have access to the main Fox network, but not the right-leaning, 24-hour news channel, with its trademarked slogan of "fair and balanced."
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) opposed the application, saying it would discourage foreign broadcasters from partnering with Canadian broadcasters.
via Reader Supported News.
Maybe I will need to move to Canada!
America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News, fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canadian regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.
They would have to change the law to let FOX news be broadcast. Sounds like a good law. Hey Congress, here is a law you can pass!
http://www.skepticmoney.com/fox-news-banned-from-canada-law-forbids-lying-on-broadcast-news/
People frequently refer to a court case that Fox won, which essentially gives the media the right to lie. This came from an appellate court decision that states that the FCC's news distortion policy does not qualify as a rule, law, or regulation.
Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie.
By Mike Gaddy. Published Feb. 28, 2003
The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers. Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news.
The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.
In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was "totally vindicated" by the verdict.
http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/