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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fox News’
Only 1.38 percent of Fox News’ primetime viewers are African-American.
Posted: July 27, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Faux News, Fox News
O’Reilly tells African-American Columbia University professor that he looks like a ‘cocaine dealer.’
Posted: May 27, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Faux News, Fox News, O'Reilly, Racism
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 PoliticsTags: Faux News, Fox News
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 [...]
Taxes At Their Lowest Rate Since 1950. Why Is The Tea Party Complaining Again?
Posted: May 11, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Taxes, Tea Party
Despite protests from Tea Party activists regarding high taxes, a USA Today analysis of federal data has found that “Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman’s presidency.” Federal, state, local, property, sales, and other taxes “consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950.” USAToday ThinkProgress.org [...]
Fox Politicizes Clinton’s Heart Surgery, Suggests He Wouldn’t Have Received Treatment Under Health Reform
Posted: February 12, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Fox News, Heart Surgery, President Clinton
This morning, Fox & Friends covered President Bill Clinton’s hospitalization by asking if the President would have been treated for his heart problems “if the health care reform had gone through.” “Would he have gotten those stents?” host Brian Kilmeade asked in-house health reform expert Peter J. Johnson Jr. Johnson admitted that “under a lot of protocols [...]
