Showing posts with label fox news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox news. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Were Team USA's uniforms not patriotic enough?
The video: While the rest of the country was celebrating Gabby Douglas' gold medal in the individual all-round event in women's gymnastics, a grumpy Fox News was homing in on Team USA's sartorial choices. (Watch video below.) On "America Live," guest host Alisyn Camerota bemoaned the replacement of the "famous flag-styled outfits" of U.S. gymnastic teams of yore with Douglas' pink leotards and gray track suit — not the sort of outfits, it seems, that get crowds chanting "USA!" "What's wrong with showing some pride?" responded Camerota's guest, David Webb, a Tea Party-aligned radio host. "What we're seeing is this kind of soft anti-American feeling that Americans can't show our exceptionalism." Webb went on to assert that the U.S. used to be a "very nationalistic nation," but over time has lost "that jingoistic feeling."
The reaction: "Newsflash for Webb. Isn't [athletic prowess] the best way to show 'American exceptionalism' at the Olympics...?" says Ellen at NewsHounds. Most people would agree "that the most unpatriotic thing about this story is Fox News' choice to nitpick uniform choices and cheering styles instead of celebrating American wins," says Jenee Desmond-Harris at The Root. And a tip for Webb: The U.S. may want to avoid "being jingoistic," says Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic, "a word that means, via Merriam-Webster, 'extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.'"
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Stewart's rant against Fox News
Tuesday night on the Daily Show Jon Stewart waded back into the still simmering Rush Limbaugh controversy, specifically how Fox News is working diligently to restore Limbaugh’s, ugh, good name by pointing out how Bill Maher once (Or was it more than once?) called Sarah Palin a “c*nt.” In other words, they’re playing the “well they say mean things too” card.
In essence, Stewart argued, Fox News is pleading for the debate in America to “get back to what really matters in America: whether Obama is a Sunni or a Shi’ite.” After playing a montage of clips in which Fox talking heads criticize Maher and others on the left for cloaking their sexism in comedy, Stewart responded: “Fox: shut the f*ck up…Nobody cares.” I love it when he does that.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Fox News edits a clip to replace boos with applause
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Fox News calls "The Muppets" communist
"The Muppets" was a great movie...Fox News is crazy but that's nothing new.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Fox News viewers know less than those who don't watch the news
The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that "people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government" and "6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government" compared to those who watch no news.
Overall, 53% of all respondents knew that Egyptians successfully overthrew Hosni Mubarak and 48% knew that Syrians have yet to overthrow their government.
Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."
This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
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