NEW YORK - As the most powerful man in the universe, or one of them anyway, Roger Ailes can look back on the first 15 years of his crowning achievement, Fox News Channel, with satisfaction. And he does. It was way back in February 1996 that, at the behest of News Corp. chieftain Rupert Murdoch, Ailes began creating from scratch an all-news network to challenge the venerable CNN as well as upstart MSNBC, which was set to launch that July.
A lawsuit between Fox News and former U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan has been settled. In a joint statement by the parties Friday, Carnahan's lawyers conceded that her campaign's use of a clip of a Fox News interview "exceeded that which is permitted" under federal copyright law.
David Brock, the conservative turned liberal advocate, has recently garnered a considerable amount of press coverage for his attacks on Fox News for, among many other things, allegedly taking over leadership of the Republican Party. What the news coverage has ignored is his use of tax-free funds for his organization, Media Matters for America (MMA), for these attacks - a form of government support for activities that clearly do not merit tax-exempt status and that as a result infringe on Fox News' First Amendment rights. MMA was originally established as an Internal Revenue Service Section 501(c)(3) organization, that is, an organization that can receive tax-deductible contributions to engage in educational activities. The more precise purpose was to counter alleged media bias and so to...
As a Fox News political analyst, [Juan Williams], 56, epitomizes its "fair and balanced" mantra, as both sides are (always) presented. If you watch him on the "Fox All-Stars" at 6:40 p.m. weekdays; on the reporter panel on "Fox News Sunday"; sitting in for ratings king Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reuly Factor"; or as an O'ReilJy guest espousing strong liberal views opposite a conservative journalist, you know he doesn't bite his tongue. Williams was fired by [Ellen Weiss] in a telephone call on Oct. 20. A week later, Vivian Schiller, NPR's chief executive officer and Weiss' boss - apologized for how it was handled and said she "takes full responsibility." But she also said, "I stand by my decision to end NPR's relationship with Juan Williams. Anyone who knows anything about Williams underst...
Completing a swift rise and fall from TV stardom, controversial host Glenn Beck will lose his once-popular Fox News show later this year, the network announced Wednesday. Beck's 5 p.m. program, which earned scorn from liberals for its attacks on President Obama as well as its devotion to sometimes- obscure right-wing thinkers, was a top cable draw in 2009 and a signpost for the populist tea party movement in last year's midterm elections, which dealt a ballot-box rebuke to the White House.
Two University of Missouri journalism students will make an appearance on Fox News tomorrow because they won the network's annual College Challenge. Emily Spain and Blake Hanson will split a $10,000 prize. Viewers can watch the check presentation during "Fox & Friends," which runs from 5 to 8 a.m. The duo will talk about the project later in the day during "Studio B," which is from 2 to 3 p.m.
A few words on what Fox News is. The question has, of course, been debated forever. Fox says it is, as the name would suggest, a news network. Its critics say it is actually the propaganda arm of the Republican Party and that its highest loyalty is not to accuracy, fairness or other journalistic values but to the furtherance of the party line. Not that any sentient life form should need the help, but events have recently arranged themselves such as to make painfully obvious which view is truth and which is tripe. As it happens, one of the biggest news stories of the past few weeks has been the phone hacking scandal that now ensnares media baron Rupert Murdoch. For those who somehow missed it, it involves revelations that reporters at Murdoch's News of the World British tabloid routinely...
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