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Fox host: Shooter at Congressional baseball practice “was essentially radicalized by the left-wing media”
Conservative media deflect from James Comey’s testimony by attacking his sexuality and gender
Source: Conservative media deflect from James Comey’s testimony by attacking his sexuality and gender
The soap opera otherwise known as Fox News continues this week, at least in the rumor mill.
Source: Fox President Bill Shine Out? Then Hannity May Follow Him | Crooks and Liars
One week after Fox News was forced to fire Bill O’Reilly after advertisers boycotted his show because of reports of serial sexual harassment, Media Matters for America released its first ad emphasizing that companies must be mindful about where they spend their advertising dollars. This ad is running on page 67 of issue 13 of The Hollywood Report
Source: “Oh, Boy”: Media Matters Bill O’Reilly Ad In The Hollywood Reporter
Memo to Sean Hannity: The Fox News employees pushed out of Fox News were sexually-assaulting conservatives, accused by conservatives and eventually ousted by conservative Rupert Murdoch.
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon.Murdoch cut ties with the host last week after multiple women’s reports of sexual harassment became public. Since then, seven black Fox News employees indicated that they plan to join a racial discrimination suit
Rupert Murdoch prizes loyalty and profits, both of which Bill O’Reilly brought him in droves, but Murdoch has also proved he is a pragmatist at his core.
Source: Rupert Murdoch’s axing of Bill O’Reilly shows his defiance turn to pragmatism
As Fox News parts ways with longtime host Bill O’Reilly, some may be tempted to claim that his departure is a sign that the network and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, care about women who have been sexually harassed. But the decision has nothing to do with the systemic toxic misogyny Fox News traffics in; it’s about the bottom line.
Source: Fox News Didn’t Care About Sexual Harassment Until You Knew About It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bill O’Reilly is off the airwaves, but it doesn’t really matter. …
Source: Top 5 Ways Bill O’Reilly gave us Trump and cheapened America
From the April 19 edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360:
Source: Rep. Maxine Waters: “Bill O’Reilly Is Not Going To Be Recorded Favorably In History”
Bill O’Reilly has joined the exit queue at Fox News – can the high-profile brand replace him?
Source: Bill O’Reilly is out – how much more turmoil can Fox News handle?
Media Matters, in partnership with global activism group Avaaz, submitted a report to U.K.’s chief broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, detailing the risks Rupert Murdoch’s desired takeover of British satellite broadcasting company Sky poses to British broadcasting standards. On March 16, U.K. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley had referred Murdoch’s take
Source: Murdoch Takeover Of Sky Would Undermine British Broadcasting Standards, Joint Report Shows
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone, a recognized advertiser pressure campaign expert who is also running the @StopOReilly Twitter account, released the following statement after Rupert Murdoch reportedly sent a memo to staff members praising them for Fox’s recent ratings success.Rupert Murdoch’s memo to Fox News staff should cause 21
Fox News’ “ongoing culture of sexual harassment, its recent payouts of tens of millions of dollars of hush money, and most egregiously, its role in ending the careers of women who complained has been well documented in American media,” and it reveals an “utter disregard for the rights of women,” according to attorney Lisa Bloom.Bl
New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman is reporting that multiple Fox News sources are saying Fox News host Bill O’Reilly could be off the air permanently.Under pressure from advertisers and the network, O’Reilly announced on the April 4 edition of his show that he was taking a “vacation.” According to Sherman, James Murdoch the CEO
Three black women are currently suing Fox News over “top-down racial harassment.” Bill O’Reilly recently made racist remarks against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the latest in the star Fox host’s long history of bigoted remarks. And it’s not just O’Reilly — the entire network is filled with bigotry. Here is a supercut showing the worst of Fox
President Donald Trump, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, and former Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes all have at least one thing in common: Multiple women have accused each of them of sexual harassment in the context of the workplace. In addition, they have defended each other over those allegations, with O’Reilly dismissing the accusations aga
Source: O’Reilly Scandal Proves That Sex Predators Stick Together
The latest gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by a Fox News contributor shows that the network and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, never sought to fix the toxic misogyny that the network has fostered, contributing to a culture of sexual misconduct by the men in power.On April 3, Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky filed
Source: New Sexual Harassment Allegations Make Clear Fox Never Attempted To Change
Sky News has apologised “unreservedly” to broadcaster Wendy Harmer and its own employee Kristina Keneally after Mark Latham made on-air claims about both women.
Source: Sky News apologises to Wendy Harmer, Kristina Keneally for Mark Latham claims
Following a bombshell report that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have violated the Logan Act, President Donald Trump called on reporters only from outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch at a February 10 U.S.-Japan joint press conference, favoring news sources that have been major supporters and receiving no questions about the Flynn report.
Source: Day After Flynn Bombshell, Trump Calls On Only Murdoch Outlets At Press Conference
The Wall Street Journal’s top financial columnist praised President Donald Trump for issuing executive orders aimed to scale back consumer protections in the financial industry because the rollbacks would boost profits for big banks, ignoring the reality that the rules were put in place to protect the public, not the banking industry.The
Source: Wall Street Journal Columnist Praises Trump’s $100 Billion Gift To Wall Street
Wall Street Journal staffers are increasingly concerned that the paper’s coverage of President Donald Trump is not critical enough and too willing to defend his actions rather than serve a watchdog role. In interviews with Media Matters, Journal reporters say that there has been pressure “to reflect pro-Trump viewpoints” in articles&
Source: Wall Street Journal Reporters Concerned About Paper’s Softer Trump Coverage
Charles Krauthammer was not amused.
TeleSur | – – The paper is worried about objectivity, said WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker. The Wall Street Journal would …
Source: Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It
From all the recent hand-wringing about “fake news,” you would think that the hand-wringers had never stood in a supermarket checkout line, surrounded by 72-point headlines about alien abductions and miracle cures.
Source: Fake News Is Not the Real Media Threat We’re Facing | The Nation
The bid by 21st Century Fox is against the public interest
Politicians already kowtow to the News Corp owner. Someone must stand up to his bullying and stop the spread of his brand of toxic vitriol
“This is yet again a threat to media plurality.”
Source: Murdoch’s New Sky Bid Should Be Probed, UK Opposition Politicians Say | The Huffington Post
Fox reached a preliminary deal to acquire full control of Sky Plc for $19 billion, a long term objective of Rupert Murdoch.
Source: 21st Century Fox bid for Sky values UK company at $31b
Exclusive: Jim Rudder, who has spent most of his career working for Sky, has been brought in to help deliver Guthrie’s plans for the ABC
Source: Michelle Guthrie appoints Murdoch consultant to restructure ABC | Media | The Guardian
Exclusive: At the centre of the story is a mystery email, a single tweet and an opinion piece in The Australian.
Source: Student Doubles Down With Fresh Defamation Claims Against Labor MP – BuzzFeed News
Fox News host Megyn Kelly waited until after the election to reveal that Donald Trump had inside information from Fox News about the question she would ask him at the first Republican primary debate, and to confirm that during the campaign former network chairman Roger Ailes was shilling for more positive coverage of the now president-elect.
Source: Now That The Election Is Over, Megyn Kelly Reveals The Pro-Trump Conspiracy At Fox
Fox co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle claimed that President-elect Donald Trump never advocated in favor of blocking Muslims from entry into the United States. In December of 2015, Trump read off a policy proposal calling for the “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims coming into the U.S. Trump doubled down in July, arguing that he is “looking at” ban
Source: Fox Host Claims Trump “Never Said He Was Blocking Muslims From Coming To The Country”
The Trump campaign has no problem with the false reports, since they’re helping him VIDEO
The New York Times described The Daily Caller, the right-wing website run by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, as “relatively moderate.” If The New York Times believes The Daily Caller to be “relatively moderate,” anti-Semitic, sexist, racist, anti-LGBT commentary must be what passes for moderation in the right-wing media sphere these days.
Source: Why Did The New York Times Call The Daily Caller “Moderate”?
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Last Friday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull took time out of his busy(?) schedule to launch a book written by Chris Mitchell, former chief editor of Murdoch’s newspaper, The Australian. Malcolm’s speech was, according to him, “uncontroversial” but it was interesting nevertheless – not for any scandalous revelations but for the embarrassing sycophancy peppered with self-promotion…
Source: Get used to it Malcolm – Murdoch is losing his grip – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron repeated a false claim pushed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a policy speech in Aston, PA, intended to outline the candidate’s newly-proposed reforms to child care and maternity leave. Trump attacked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for producing no such policy proposals — a lie w
Source: Fox Falls For Trump Lie: Clinton’s Child Care Plan Has Been Available For More Than A Year
New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman shed light on the tensions between former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, the head of Fox’s parent company 21st Century Fox, that resulted from Ailes “putting Fox so squarely behind the candidacy of Donald Trump.” The revelation was part of a report detailing Ailes’ ouster from Fox News af
The Murdoch apparently press has no trouble identifying homophobia in Muslim clerics. But some other religions seem to get a free pass, writes Michael Brull. A few months ago, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invited some Muslims to Kirribilli House for an Iftar dinner. The Murdoch press, led by the Australian, responded with a volley ofMore
Source: Gay Abandon: News Corp Embraces Double Standards On Religious Homophobia – New Matilda
Media outlets have increasingly turned to chryons (or on-air graphics) to combat Donald Trump’s lies in real time. This media tactic has become an important tool given their inability to pushback on lies that are consistently repeated by the Trump campaign. On the April 4 edition of MSNBC Live, MSNBC aired live footage from a Donald Trum
Source: Cable News (Except Fox) Increasingly Using On-Air Graphics To Combat Trump’s Lies
The Partnership for a New American Economy, a pro-immigration advocacy organization that News Corp. executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch co-chairs, is launching an initiative to push for immigration reform in 2017. But Murdoch is also backing the 2016 presidential bid of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who is strongly anti-immigrant.Accord
Source: Rupert Murdoch (Who Is Supporting Trump) Helps Launch New Immigration Reform Initiative
Roger Ailes biographer and New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman is reporting statements from six more women detailing alleged sexual harassment by Ailes.Earlier this week, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit in civil court in New Jersey accusing Ailes of repeatedly sexually harassing her, dismissing her complaints
Source: An Additional Six Women Detail Alleged Sexual Harassment By Fox News Chief Roger Ailes
Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry has made a career out of following Hillary Clinton around on the campaign trail – and trying to get a rise out of her on anything and everyth…
Source: ‘Anti-Hillary’ Fox News Host In Hot Water, Mistress Comes Forward With ‘Career Ending’ Texts
For years, Fox News has profited from its vicious, divisive rhetoric — and now a steep price is being paid
