Dean Baker:

McClatchy Does Its HomeWork on Goldman Sachs
They have some good investigative work here, here, and here. If Fox went over Goldman with the same energy it pursued Acorn, no one in Congress would go within a mile of its lobbyists.
But Fox won’t go after Goldman, because Fox is ideologically committed to free markets, which […]

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Apologizes on air for the “lack of balance” in a Fox Report.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGefbh2osMQ

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Scalzi hits the same pitch we’ve been batting around here for a while:
Fox News isn’t the number one cable news channel because it has a broad spectrum of viewers or because the quality of its news reportage is better than those of other cable news networks or organizations. It’s the number one cable news network […]

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Via Sullivan, an interesting comment from Brit Hume in an L.A. Times piece about the Obama-Fox war:
“We may be No. 1, but there is sort of an insurgent quality to Fox News. And that’s kind of our attitude: ‘Hoist a Jolly Roger, pull out our daggers and look for more throats to slit.’
The question, of […]

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Roger Ailes - president of Fox News - mulling a run for president in 2012.
As a Republican, of course.
Fair and balanced!

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And then, as if on cue, we get this:
The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make […]

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In most news organizations there’s a line between reporting and opining.
Then there’s Fox News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRx5ethd8JU

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From comments over at Balloon Juice, and I think this is exactly it:
Murdoch has a pretty obvious plan, IMO.
News is pretty fungible in the US, and that makes it difficult to extract real money out of viewers. Murdoch is trying to change that by making his news (Fox, WSJ, etc.) ‘different’, adding value to it. […]

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Said it in the vid and the print edition: Obama is baiting Fox, and Fox News will rise to the bait.
It has:
Take a look at Fox’s own Web story on the episode. …
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Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong […]

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Hooooo-boy…
So DemocracyCorps, the firm run by James Carville, among others, and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research has just completed a study titled “The Very Seperate World of Cosnervative Republicans: Why Republican Leaders will have Trouble Speaking to the Rest of America.” It shows, among other things, that the Republican base’s dislike of Obama dwarfs the left’s hatred of […]

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Ah, but I suppose it’s only when you have 75,000 straight people marching on D.C. that it’s the BIGGEST NEWS STORY EVAH!!!

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Whew. Glenn Beck:
Corruption tops our list of concerns because we believe that government is here and it’s not helping, it’s making things worse. And you have to ask yourself: Is it intentional?
I’m not a journalist. I’ve joked that I’m a rodeo clown, but you know what? I’m not. I am a dad and I’m frankly […]

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This is actually a fantastic call:
As a proprietor of Big Government and Big Hollywood, part of the team that runs The Drudge Report, and a regular guest on Fox News, especially Sean Hannity’s show, [Andrew Breitbart] is a leader among folks who complain that the Times is a pernicious force in American life—that it ignores stories that cut against […]

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Did you know you can’t even say the pledge of allegiance in school anymore!
It’s true - Fox News tells me so!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbrXLSiyy1U

And so you see how this works, when conservatives “know” something in their “gut” to be “true.”
Fox tells us that kids are being prevented from saying the pledge! And this comports with your “gut feeling” that […]

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Hm. Via Will Bunch: A couple of activists/volunteers hand out a New York Post parody issue right outside News Corp. headquarters (News Corp., of course, being the parent firm of both the Post and our beloved Fox News).
Cops detained them and confiscated the papers - after they’d succeeded in giving one to Rupert Murdoch himself:
Lockwood says she […]

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“We covered the event. We didn’t promote the event.”
“That’s not what real news organizations are supposed to do.”
“We covered the event. I would invite you to look into the distinction between those two words.”
Come on, Rick. Fair and balanced!
CNN fell down on the job because it didn’t declare the teabag march TEH MOST IMPORTANT PROTEST […]

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Only one source, you know.

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What percentage of these teabaggers, do you think, watch Fox News, and maybe Fox News exclusively?
99 percent? 99.5 percent? OK, OK, maybe that’s overstating it.
98 percent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASS1qFAIQ8

As Hendrik Hertzberg notes here, the teabag movement is unique in American history because its leadership is entirely comprised of conservative media pundits:
The protesters do not look to politicians for […]

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So there’s this big teabag protest going on down in DC today, more of what we’ve seen. But this photo in particular, from the Washington Independent, really struck me:

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John Stosssel headed to Fox - his natural habitat.
How long ’til they sign up Lou Dobbs, maybe Elizabeth Hasselbeck? I’m sure that the more overtly conservative voices they add, the more fair and balanced they’ll be…

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