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This topic has the potential to be a great RW article...anyone interested in tackling it?[[User:PalMD|--PalMD]][[User_Talk:PalMD|<sup>-Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice!</sup>]] 06:53, 12 August 2007 (CDT)
 
This topic has the potential to be a great RW article...anyone interested in tackling it?[[User:PalMD|--PalMD]][[User_Talk:PalMD|<sup>-Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice!</sup>]] 06:53, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

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Needs a bit of flesh - there are a lot of short sections and reams of quotes. There must be loads of stuff that could go in.

This topic has the potential to be a great RW article...anyone interested in tackling it?--PalMD-Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice! 06:53, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

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My radio man is reading the names of soldiers... who died... in Iraq. humanbe in 03:28, 2 October 2007 (EDT)

Hilarious

I clicked the link to Conservpedia's Fox News link, and I'll say this: It was the one of the funniest fucking things I have ever read. Trying to defend Fox News of being "unbiased" is like trying to make Ron Paul the Republican nominee for president.

Fucking Fox

I LOVE schadenfreude, and Fox is giving me all I can take. They hate Huckabee so much. They might pander to the Christian Right, but only so long as someone might be able win the power that they need to keep their wallets fat. FUCK THEM! --Edgerunner76 22:25, 3 January 2008 (EST)

Fox goes to court for the 'right to lie'

This external link is broken. Do we assume that Fox litigation stamped out the story, whatever it was? weaseLOIdWeaselly.jpg~ 11:55, 10 November 2008 (EST)

They really have done this!(Citation?)

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Under the "Proggramming" section, while listing ways to avoid damaging news, one thing on the list is: "When all of the above fail, just go ahead and change the party affiliation (from R to D) of the person who's in trouble.[2]". When you click the [2], all the citation says is "They really have done this!". Now, I don't like Fox, but I figure that it makes more sense to support a claim of some outright and blatant bias. If anyone could provide a credible link to this, it would certainly help. (I will look it up, but I would prefer whoever made the claim to provide some source). --Passerby25 20:23, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

Might want to search the Daily Show site, they featured it. Not sure, but it might have been Larry Craig. Or that Senator from Alaska? ħumanUser talk:Human 20:49, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
I found a couple of articles, one talking about them switching Specter's Party to Democrat(ic?), and two talking about them leaving out Larry Craig's party. One of them also had a picture of them changing Mark Foley's party affiliation. However, both were from blogs (crooksandliars.com and Mediamatters.com), and, knowing how easily photos can be edited, I would rather have a more reliable source. --Passerby25 21:03, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
Foley rings a bell. It would be nice to have a better source, although I suspect you aren't gonna get the New York Times on this. I actually saw the Daily Show ep where they pointed it out, but it was ages ago. So, um, what were the links to it at C&L and MM? ħumanUser talk:Human 22:13, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
Here is some from C&L [1], [2]. and Media Matters: [3]. Its not that I don't trust those sources, it is just I would prefer to have a more reliable source then a blog or partisan website. (I will look up the Daily Show clip later)--Passerby25 17:40, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
Thanks for the links (and the effort)! ħumanUser talk:Human 20:54, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
Yes, it was Foley, so it should be findable at the Daily Show website by an American (they don't serve Canucks) PubliusTalk 22:22, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
Can't you lie, like I did to listen to a MN radio station's stream? (the answer was 55440, IIRC). ħumanUser talk:Human 23:31, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
It's an auto-detect, and I've never had any luck getting around those. --Kels 23:26, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
This one only asks a zip code, funnily enough. ħumanUser talk:Human 23:51, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

I got the link at the Daily show, but I phailed at computer smart. When uploading I pasted in the screen cap to the upload descrip box and broke my firefox. More to follow shortly, sorry for the fuck up. ħumanUser talk:Human 23:44, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=110105 at about 2:30 or so. ħumanUser talk:Human 23:49, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
I hope that addresses your concerns, Passerby25. ħumanUser talk:Human 01:29, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

Is there anything I should know?

I've gotten into the habit of watching Sheppard Smith before The Factor comes on. I actually am starting to admire Mr. Smith as a newscaster (my plan B), especially for his quote "I don't give a rat's ass if it helps. We are America! We do not fucking torture". Is there anything bad I should know about him or is he the sole voice of reason at Fox News?--Thanatos 01:48, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Have you at least reported him to the FDA or OSHA or some such BOL for saying "fucking" on the air? Or are you paraphrasing? Better places to ask for more info: the Saloon bar or the To do list. ħumanUser talk:Human 03:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

but it's still very much foreign controlled

Not arguing, but some evidence would be nice. yummy Toast&  honey(or marmalade) 13:05, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Owned by Murdoch's News Corporation, isn't it? ħumanUser talk:Human 17:44, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Murdoch's American, as is Newscorp. yummy Toast&  honey(or marmalade) 20:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Last I heard he was Australian. Though he's US-based now, I guess, and may even have become naturalized... time to go to WP for the biased truth! ħumanUser talk:Human 20:17, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
He had to get naturalised to control Fox (I think). I put it in the article a week ago. Newscorp has also relocated its address to the US. yummy Toast&  honey(or marmalade) 21:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
He had to become a US citizen in order to own US media. Newscorp moved from Adelaide to Delaware a few years back because of exchange rate problems. They were also an order of magnitude larger than Australia's second largest company, they used to knock the stock exchange up and down by themselves. - π 22:24, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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You can reinsert this edit when we upgrade to MediaWiki 1.16. -- Nx / talk 14:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Historical news footage surfaced...

Click me hard, you wild animal. Gmb (talk)

Too funny. --UnicornTapestry (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Outfoxed

Blatant hit piece or worth watching? (Haven't seen it.) Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 08:15, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Silver

Thoughts? TyTy 21:42, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Criticism sections need actual prose rather than single sentences. ADK...I'll envision your oak! 21:44, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Agree, but this is looking pretty good. A bit of cleanup and I think silver is right on. Picon small.pngAcer Blue 05:16, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

How Fox poisoned a relationship…

I can't imagine how this might fit a RatWiki article, but it's interesting and sad: How Cable News Made Me Lose My Religion and My Mother.

--UnicornTapestry (talk) 05:44, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I suspect that it was not Fox News that effected the change in her mother's thinking, as far as broad principles are concerned. I suspect that what happened was that the mother was taught to express her previous views in terms of talking-points that raised her daughter's dander quite a bit more than the old ones about the Evils of Communism. Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 05:52, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
You want to know something interesting, LX? If you read the article there is not a single mention of communism in it. Pimobile (talk) 06:06, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
You appear to have missed the sentence that reads, "Mom indoctrinated me against communism, the dangers of alcohol and premarital sex." Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 06:08, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
How very observant of you, I only noticed the alcohol and sex part. Pimobile (talk) 06:10, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
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