Posts Tagged ‘Faux News’

Only 1.38 percent of Fox News’ primetime viewers are African-American.

Posted: July 27, 2010 in Politics
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ThinkProgress.org While working on his article published yesterday in the New York Times highlighting the right-wing media’s “misleading coverage,” reporter Brian Stelter did some background research into cable news viewership demographics. While he didn’t include the findings in his story, he found them notable enough to publish on Twitter. The Huffington Postsummarizes the results: The New York [...]

Dear Glenn Beck

Posted: May 31, 2010 in Politics
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I found this quote today and thought you might find it insightful. “It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.”  ~Charles Osgood During your May 26th radio program, you accused President Obama of “…deciding not to honor our [...]

O’Reilly tells African-American Columbia University professor that he looks like a ‘cocaine dealer.’

Posted: May 27, 2010 in Politics
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ThinkProgress.org Last night on Fox News, during a conversation about sending military forces to the U.S.-Mexico border, host Bill O’Reilly suggested that a larger show of soldiers would “intimidate” drugs dealers from entering the country. But as he made his point about cocaine dealers, O’Reilly asserted that Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill, an African [...]

Fox News host asks Rep. Price about elections: ‘Where do we stand? How strong a position’ is the GOP in?

Posted: May 25, 2010 in Politics
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This morning, during an a segment about the upcoming midterm elections, Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) about the GOP’s prospects. But in formulating his question, Hemmer suggested that he or the broader Fox News were part of the Republican party: HEMMER: I want to know from you how you evaluate [...]