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"True believers."
Mitt Romney, describing Fox News viewers at a private campaign fundraiser on April 15.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
"If you’re talking about programming, we noticed that all the talk shows on the other networks basically had progressive or liberal talk show hosts. We have one conservative on FOX News, Sean Hannity."
Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman, in a speech at the University of North Carolina
We have one conservative on Fox News.
(Source: mediamatters.org)
"So for all you liberals out there hating Fox, we know you make things ups, but you’re not going to do it at my expense, or the expense of a network that was willing to hire an openly gay women before anyone else in television. Will this appear on Media Matters? Since it doesn’t fit their “We Hate Fox Meme of the Day,” likely not. And they certainly don’t want the truth about Fox to somehow sneak out amongst the hippies."
Fox News’ Tammy Bruce, remarking that her tweet claiming she can’t be a guest on The O’Reilly Factor because she is gay was, in fact, a joke.
(Source: mediaite.com)
Longtime Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce tweeted yesterday that she’s been told she’ll never guest host The O’Reilly Factor because she’s gay. Bruce did not specify whether she had received that message from the network’s personnel, but replied favorably to a fan who responded to her tweet by criticizing the network.
"Considering FDU’s undergraduate school is ranked as one of the worst in the country, we suggest the school invest in improving its weak academic program instead of spending money on frivolous polling – their student body does not deserve to be so ill-informed."
Fox News’ statement on Fairleigh Dickinson University’s study that ranks Fox News viewers as the least informed on news issues. FDU’s study is one of a long line of similar studies conducted over the past few years, the majority of which have found the same results.
Well this is nice.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com)
Fox News Figures Attack Their Own Poll Showing Obama Lead | Media Matters for America
The poll, released May 16, shows President Obama with a 7-percentage point lead over Mitt Romney, including a 22-percentage point lead among women. Despite the fact that the poll was conducted by their own employer, Fox News figures almost immediately began downplaying the results and criticizing the methodology. On the May 16 edition ofThe O’Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Dick Morrisjokedthat the poll showed that Fox News had “Democratic bias” because it surveyed registered voters, a group that Morris claimed include many who “are not going to vote.” Morris warned, “If you want to know how the election is going to come out, don’t pay attention to that.”
This morning’s edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends offered similar warnings of the poll’s untrustworthiness. After displaying some of the poll’s findings, co-host Brian Kilmeade warned viewers that it “seems like a small poll” and was conducted among “registered voters, which a lot of the experts say you can — you’ve got to factor that in.”
Fair and balanced.
