I rarely update posts. Yet “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast” I’ve updated twice. I find it a fascinating case study in how Fox News spins their news.
Fox News has been hypersensitive defenders of Sarah Palin. The most amusing example of this is their ridiculous attacks against Newsweek over her cover photo [...]
From TVNewser:
“We have to do more news,” Smith says. “We’ve already given up the ‘coming up’ teasing… We did that because viewers said that’s what they wanted.” “We’re not going to do more crap, we’re not going to do more titillating [stories], Hollywood-movie reviews and jokes.”
It’s hard to believe anyone at Fox News, Shep included, [...]
On June 24th I blogged on what I’ll call the “O’Reilly Rule.” Simply stated, the media covering violence in Iraq is lending support to the terrorists. To check out how Fox covers the war I watched a June 22nd Fox Report and came away unimpressed with what I saw. I promised to pay more attention [...]
It’s fair to debate whether the American media covers enough good news from Iraq. The “if it bleeds it leads” bad news versus good news coverage debate certainly predates my existence on this planet. However, it’s a different matter altogether to argue we need to filter out bad news because it undermines the war effort. [...]