April 2012
51 posts
“It’s so interesting to me that people talk about night comedy being cynical. What’s more cynical than forming an ideological news network like Fox and calling it ‘fair and balanced’? What we do, I think, is adorable in it’s idealism. It’s quaint.”
—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, circa 2003
“Fox is watched by the true believers. We need to get the independents and the women.”
—Mitt Romney, on Fox’s viewer base
“The truth of the matter is, I was blackballed within the industry, that people… hiring managers see Fox News on your resumé and say, ‘This guy’s a conservative. This guy’s a nut. We don’t want him in our organization.’ I was completely blackballed within the cable news industry.”
—“Fox News Mole” Joe Muto
“Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters — Fox News — a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. Warning. Much mayhem ahead.”
—David Carr for the New York Times, circa 2008.
“I am a weasel, a traitor, a sell-out and every bad word you can throw at me… but as of today, I am free, and I am ready to tell my story, which I wasn’t able to fully do for the previous 36 hours.”
—Joe Muto, the Fox News mole, on his identification and employment termination.
“It should be sent for example to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and maybe PBS and VOA. As for Fox News let her die in her anger,..From a professional point of view, they are all on one level — except (Fox News) channel, which falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks objectivity, too.”
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Adam Gadahn, media adviser for al-Qaeda in an email to Osama bin Laden
Even al-Qaeda doesn’t think Fox News is a real news channel.
“I assume it’s because [Rupert] Murdoch at some point said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney.’ And there’s no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches Fox… In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.”
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Newt Gingrich, accusing Fox News of a Mitt Romney bias that he believes has damaged his campaign for president.
Fox definitely has a Romney bias, but I’m fairly sure that Gingrich is doing just fine destroying his campaign on his own. Fox News has responded, saying, “This is nothing more than Newt auditioning for a windfall of a gig at CNN. That’s the kind of man he is. Not to mention, he’s still bitter over the termination of his contributor contract.” Gingrich is not the fist GOP candidate to accuse Fox News of bias: Rick Santorum did so earlier this year.
“What is Gawker? Is that that pornographic website? I don’t care if they have a mole because we aren’t doing anything wrong, so it actually doesn’t matter.”
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Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, on the Fox News mole (via think-progress)
Is that that pornographic website?
“So Fox’s PR team has been telling people that they have “found” me and are presently “exploring legal options.” If Fox has smoked me out, it’s news to me. I’m still here. Back to work.”
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Fox News’ ‘mole,” in a statement to Gawker, reacting to Fox’s announcement that they have identified the leak and are exploring legal action against them.
Fox News Is Said to Have a Mole | New York Times →
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com
Fox News apparently has a leak.
The news and gossip Web siteGawker posted a column on Tuesdayfrom a person who it says is a “longstanding, current employee of Fox News Channel.” The anonymous person “will be providing Gawker with regular dispatches from inside the organization,” the Web site said.
In media circles, the column instantly raised a question: how long will it take for Fox News to plug this leak?
Employees very rarely speak out of turn at Fox News — proof, people close to the network say, of discipline and intense loyalty to the network and its chief, Roger Ailes. When it has happened before, Fox executives have taken the matter very seriously.
Dear Fox News mole, there is a place for you here. Love, RFN
“Senator, are you getting behind Mitt Romney? You didn’t mention him in your speech.”
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Unidentified reporter to Rick Santorum following his campaign suspension announcement.
Insert one last anal sex Santorum joke to end this nightmare here.
“The president’s goal is to heighten African American turnout by stoking a feeling of victimization in the African American community… I think what he is trying to do is rekindle the sense of black victimization which would impel an increased turnout.”
—Fox News political commentator Dick Morris, accusing President Obama of using Trayvon Martin’s murder as a political mobilizer for votes.
“Watching the coverage this past week has been like watching sausage made. The old line about that you’d never want to eat it if you did see it. We watched the covering of a story unfold and it was ugly to watch for its latent bias and practical conviction of George Zimmerman.”
—Fox News’ Liz Trotta, calling the media coverage of Trayvon Martin too biased against George Zimmerman. Trotta has been recently in the news for insisting that women in the military are raped too much.
March 2012
29 posts
Fox News hired a doctor to confirm that President Obama’s son would look nothing like Trayvon Martin. That’s fucking investigative journalism and science at its finest.
I found a video for those who can bare to watch.
I couldn’t even watch a full minute.
Fox News, you are so pathetic.
Lou Dobbs, you’re such a sweaty blubbery white embarrassment. How many networks have you been fired from?
Journalism!
“Females will be further distanced from their traditional feminine characteristics that (sadly, some wrongly insist) suggested they were not being real “girls” if they were extremely physically violent. Young teens and many pre-teens will be awakened to the fact that they are capable of extreme violence, given the right set of circumstances. A few psychologically vulnerable teens—who would have come to no good anyhow—may be inspired to replicate the film’s violence.”
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Dr. Keith Ablow, resident Fox News psychiatric quack, on the results of The Hunger Games, which he insists “adds to the toxic psychological forces it identifies.”
Fox News has also established The Hunger Games as a “cautionary tale against big government.”
“I apologize for the language. I don’t apologize at all for the substance of my advice. I was trying to save lives.”
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Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, sort of apologizing but not really at all for his comments that wearing a hoodie killed Trayvon Martin.
Blaming victims, saving lives: the American motto.
“I have a different take… on that. I am urging the parents of Black and Latino youngsters to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was… You’re gonna be a gangsta wannabe? People are going to perceive you as a menace. That’s what happens.”
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Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, arguing that had Trayvon Martin been dressed more appropriately, he would have not looked so suspicious and would not have been murdered.
Fox News Coverage of the Trayvon Martin Case Criticized | The Daily Beast →
thedailybeast.com
It’s an explosive story with ingredients that Fox News should be well familiar with: race, guns, and crime.
But as the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin makes national headlines, Fox’s coverage is becoming a story in its own right—from its slow start behind other networks to its attempt to shift the story onto the more comfortable turf of gun control….
“You never know motivations. But Fox has a habit in the stories they pick: they did more than 90 segments on the New Black Panther story, but they certainly don’t dedicate that kind of coverage to Trayvon Martin,” Rabin-Havt said. “I can’t tell you why they pick the stories they pick, but it does say a lot about the network.”
So, I accepted an offer from the University of Washington's doctorate program for Political Science, officially moving to Seattle in the fall! Who wants to hang out?
A plea to techie tumblrers
Hi guys. So, I’m about to embark on a big adventure, a doctorate program, and I am starting to think that I need some new equipment. First thing about me, I am super (impressively) cheap. I have one of the now rare black Macbooks from 2008, and I have done everything in my power to avoid getting a new one. My philosophy is that it works, so why bother getting another one? However, it doesn’t work all that well. The hard drive and most of the other parts have been replaced a few times, but it’s just getting old. Programs tend to crash, it’s generally slow, etc. As much as I don’t want to, I think I may need to invest in a new computer for the next 6-8 years of my education.
However, I really hate the current Apple options. The macbook air doesn’t have a cd drive, and the Macbook pro is big and so expensive. I don’t think I can justify spending that much for a laptop.
In doing quick math I have deduced that I can buy a desktop IMac (beautiful, massive screen) and a cheaper PC laptop for the same price or less than a Macbook pro. All I really use it for is blogging, Netflix, looking at pictures of cats, word processing, and maybe running statistics programs. My questions to you, Tumblr universe, are thus: is is stupid for a grad student to invest the majority of their computer fund into a desktop? Is a macbook really that much better than it’s much cheaper, equally stylish PC cousins? Have you recently given up Apple?
