Fox’s prime time shows are silent on Stevens’ conviction.
By on Oct 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Fox’s prime time shows are silent on Stevens’ conviction.
Yesterday, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), the longest-serving Republican senator in history, was found guilty on all seven counts for failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts on his Senate disclosure forms. The story got heavy airtime on MSNBC and CNN’s prime-time programs, with Campbell Brown and Rachel Maddow each devoting multiple segments to the story. Notably silent on the issue, however, were Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, neither of whom discussed the senator’s case at all during their prime-time shows last night.
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October 28th, 2008 at 3:14 pmThe silence of the wolves in sheep’s clothing…
October 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pmI find it hard to beleive that there isnt SOME sort of legal violations resulting from the cozy relationship between fox and the bush regime.. I really, really hope that some dems have the balls to hold congressional hearings about the governments use of these private companies as propoganda organizations…….
October 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pmcampbell brown on jon stewart last night… she’s going to have a new show “no bias, no bull”… uh huh… can’t wait…
i do hope she is sincere… it would be good…
especially 8 years ago…
…
question:
how will this affect the “obama show” on wednesday, or will it?
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Buy if a democratic school board member swipe a coke out of a coke machine, it would be a breaking news special on a 24 hour loop at faux news…
October 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pmWell, when a good family friend is about to be sent to prison it’s best to not say anything…if you’re a private propaganda wing of the GOP. Then the rest of the family is kept happy, like it never happened.
That way you don’t do anything to hurt a lost cause, like say the election or that lame duck presidential administration. Nothing says lovin’ like being ignorant and foolish!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pmkaty, God will open up the skies over Philly at precisely 8:27 and let it pour for 33 minutes.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pmIn the delusional world of today’s Republicans, it just didn’t happen if it’s not reported on FAKE news.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pmcaption:
“I think I’ll dress up as the Grinch for Halloween.”
October 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pmlately i’ve written a string of letters to my daily paper, each one made a reference to fox amounting to state sponsored propaganda… had an answer to one, and this is part of what it said:
“As for Fox News, It always has a Republican and a Democrat discussing every issue. Hannity and Colmes are a conservative and a liberal. All have their say on Fox!
I watch MSNBC, CBS and other news channels to hear every viewpoint. On MSNBC, I watched Keith Olbermann give a 40 minute tirade against Bush and the Republican Party. I don’t think that’s news, that’s propaganda and misinformation!”
stoopid idjit… not a clue…
October 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pmStevens’ a complete hypocrite. He said the trial was carried out in an “unconscionable manner,” yet it is his job as a Senator to ensure due practice of the law.
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October 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pmMegan Kelly insisted to Obama spokesman Bill Burton that the channels viewers rated the coverage as non-bias. Okay!
What struck me in that ‘interview’ and most FOx ‘interviews’ of democrats or liberals is how much talking the interviewer does. Interviews by definition are meant to get information from the interviewee.
How much information can be gained if the interviewer is doing more than half of the talking? They are basically debating for an audience of entertainment television that is the laughing stock of the rest of the country.
So they higher ratings; there audience likely doesn’t read as many books, or visit as many museums, etc.
And now they don’t cover news. What a joke.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pmChoc jesus #3 says @ 3:16p
Let’s see..a (news?) network that only promotes Republican Pols, run by a former Republican organizer..hmmmm. No crime here according to DOJ. Present DOJ being a tool for Dem persecution and Republican promotion.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pmRU – the obama show is to start at 8e (i think) so he should be done in time… maybe they coordinated both shows…
October 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pmSo should the other news agencies take it that Fox doesn’t see a leading repub being convicted on the abuse of their power as news ? After all, it happens all the time ?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pmOn “Special Report” they announced the verdict and said they were going to have further details, but they didn’t.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pmShocking!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pmIf Stevens had been a Democratic Senator, FOX would have done nothing but talked about the conviction. You know it’s true. I know it’s true. They know it’s true. EVERYONE knows it’s true. Geesh. No bias there.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pmStevens does not look to happy.
He probably believes he is entitled.
We need TERM LIMITS!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pmI hope they lock that corrupt old buzzard away for the rest of his unnatural life.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pmThe photo above and watching Steven’s at work in the senate have prooved my assesment of the man..Evil incarnate…One good reason to have term limit’s and back ground check’s…..It seem’s to me these old men on both side’s of the isle should be made to retire at 70 or maybe even 65….Blessings
October 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pmFox viewers want that type of news (?) just tell them what to think and how to vote and they can be happy. Kinda of like the mommies that let the 3 year olds make the decisions.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pmNo, Annie I hope he just looses all the power that he has built up, that would be worse for sub-humans like Stevens than sitting in a comfy Fed prison.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pmSomeone in legal told Roger and Rupert that Fox could get sued if the chyron writers kept slipping a “(D)” after the name of every Republican caught diddling pages, cruising airport mens rooms or committing felonies. The solution was to just stop reporting it.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pmThis just proves…Fox is not a news station!!! Fox plays no roll in informing people when it comes to News. This is why the fairness doctrin should be reinstated.
Fox is nothing more then a propanganda machine for the white house. What will they do when President Obama occupies the white house????
This should be “news” on all the other News orginizations. It’s time to call out the propaganda new network.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pmHa! Just as I predicted.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:49 pmYou wouldn’t expect Fox and Friends to cut into their non-stop coverage of breaking rumors about ACORN, just report this little story.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pmJeebus Christ!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pmLooks like the old coot could use a good bowel movement or maybe the puppies he had for lunch didn’t agree with him.
Does anyone else remember when the news actually reported the NEWS and you could not tell what the political affiliation of the reporter was?
What a sad state the 4th Estate is in today.
Why back in the days, when I used to walk to school, uphill, in the snow, both ways……. lol.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:52 pmThat’s because they can’t figure out how they can make Obama look bad by reporting on Stevens. Fair and Balanced MY A$$. If Stevens had been a Democrat, it would be on Faux 24×7.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pmAnother news story you will never see reported on Faux are the stories about the Republicans disenfranchising voters all across this nation. It’s much more important that they report there is a chance that Mickey Mouse may be voting this election because of ACORN.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pmI heard Mickey Mouse is going to write in a vote for the animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:02 pmI stomached my way through that hack Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday and not even a mention of it.
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the expression “Don’t pi$$ on my head and tell me that it’s raining!”, but it seems to me that people that that watch Faux News and listen to that radio pap prefer to be pi$$ed on than be told the truth. It’s one thing to be ignorant, but it’s another thing to choose to be that way.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:03 pmNeither the web sites of ABC news or Fox news have any stories about Ted Stevens or McCain’s reaction to it (around Noon PST today). Just about every other major media outlet found this newsworthy (NBC, MSNBC, CBS, NYTimes, Washington Post, etc.). I think a dispassionate reading would find that the felony conviction of a sitting Senator and the reaction of the Presidential contenders to it is newsworthy.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pmwait for fox to
identify teddy as:
ted stevens (d)
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it’s their favorite mistake.
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thank you.
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October 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pmSurprise!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pmFox reports – you decide.
Fair and balanced — yessiree!
Without the potential of cleavage, Fox doesn’t cover the story.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pmPut this MUDDAFUGGA in prison, and let him talk his way out being Big-Bo’s beotch. I twitter with delight seeing this SCUMBAG scowl. What a poster child for RIGHTWING ARROGANCE. PUT HIM IN A JUMPSUIT ALREADY!!!!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pmHe will eventually be a 60Minute piece from prison. I can see him now with a bandana tied around his head, talking prison speak.
That’s because Billo and Hannity aren’t newsmen or journalists. They are rabid mouth pieces for right wing slop.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:27 pmFox mouthpieces are just a bunch of cowards.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pmFOX News is silent on anything that forces them to accept their own folly.
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October 28th, 2008 at 4:33 pmperhaps the bobblyheads over at faux are taking the flailin palin perspective on things, “i am sooooo glad of being cleared of any criminal or ethical wrongdoing”.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:49 pmFAUX News doesn’t bring up news items that are damaging to Republicans. Even when that’s all the political news there is, they just switch over to 24-hour coverage of either a black celebrity on trial, or a missing white female.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:04 pmRight hate America reverses the media bias,… calls it drive by liberal media. And the sad thing is the kool-aid drinkers actually buy it.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pmAn Obama administration will bring back the Fairness Doctrine… the righties are crying and complaining, with this doctrine, they will be put out of business.
Isn’t this carrying on enough proof to the kool-aid drinkers of how lopsided the corporate media has become?
What we have now, 95% of the radio air waves controlled by repukes, is not ethical and soon to be illegal.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:26 pmNevar Says:
caption:
“I think I’ll dress up as the Grinch for Halloween.”
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I think Mr Geisel patterened the Grinch AFTER Sen Stevens
October 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm>This just proves…Fox is not a news station!!!
No, its not. THey have asserted, in a court of law, that they have both the legal and constiutional right to KNOWINGLY lie to people and call it “news”.
So far they’ve been sucessfull in court, but its only reached the florida appelate court so far…
October 28th, 2008 at 5:44 pmDoes anyone watch fraud for news?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:42 pmThe other broadcast agencies have a hard enough time getting anything straight.
Fraud doesn’t even try.
If it doesn’t fit in thier blender fraud doesn’t bother with it.
Look at the people they have reading scripts. Their faces will not allow truth. Ever noticed that?