Faux News: Who Says the USA Doesn't Have State TV?

[GreyhoundFan]

"‘She’s like herpes,’ a Fox News guest said of Hillary Clinton. The network apologized."

Spoiler

Conservative commentator Anna Paulina had her wires crossed on Fox News, and somehow, her Thursday segment only got worse from there.

She was brought on to discuss investigating Hillary Clinton. But Paulina opened on the southern border and a bizarre history of century-old legislation that federalizes reservist troops. Another guest tried to quell the confusion before careening back to Clinton’s emails — a favored Fox News topic.

Though his show prompted the discussion about Clinton, host Rick Leventhal said it was incredible that Clinton still captured attention.

“She won’t go away,” Paulina said. “She’s like herpes.”

A smirk fell off the face of political analyst Doug Schoen. Leventhal was stunned but recovered: “Okay, that’s news that we are breaking here,” he said. “Not appropriate.”

Paulina disappeared from the segment, which ended early, Leventhal noted. He apologized to viewers for her language.

The incident prompted an additional on-air apology from the network.

“We are all Americans, and that is the focus, and we want to reiterate that we do not condone the language that Anna Paulina just displayed here, and we apologize to Secretary Clinton for that,” Arthel Neville said. “Fox News does not condone her sentiments.”

On Saturday morning, Paulina tweeted an explanation and an apology to Fox and its viewers, but not Clinton.

A representative for Clinton did not return comment.

It’s not clear whether Paulina, who has appeared as a guest on Fox News in the past, will be invited back. A spokeswoman for the network pointed to Neville’s apology and declined to comment further.

Paulina is the director of Spanish engagement at Turning Point USA, a conservative group first built to fight a perception of liberal bias at college campuses. It has since become a safe space for young conservatives.

The group did not return a request for comment, and its website features only one mention of Paulina from an event she spoke at in October.

The only thing she's sorry about is that she may stop getting paid by Faux.

[Cartmann99]

You can watch Diamond & Silk peddle their nonsense for free on their YouTube channel, so why pay extra to see them? 

[AmazonGrace]

It sounds to me like paying extra is the whole point... 

https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/fox-news-new-streaming-subscription-service-fox-nation-will-debut-on-nov-27/

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The company’s Founders Program includes four tiers, going from basic ($60 for a one-year subscription and a “Fox Nation founder challenge coin”) to all-inclusive ($1,200 for a three-year subscription, a “Fox Nation founder tactical watch” and gift box with other Fox Nation swag like the coin, hat, glasses and a medal).

Asking for sixty dollars for one year and 1,200 dollars for three years... if anyone pays this the Fox viewers are even dumber than I thought.  https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/fox-news-new-streaming-subscription-service-fox-nation-will-debut-on-nov-27/

[fraurosena]

We need to remember that propaganda isn't the exclusive province of Faux. Sinclair is, in my opinion, even worse for their pervasive and insidious pro-presidunce propaganda.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Fox Nation can’t write"

Spoiler

Fox News, they say, is on target to snare $2.8 billion in revenues for 2018. That should be enough to hire one copy editor, whose services are sorely needed at the network’s brand-new streaming service, Fox Nation.

Commonly described as Hulu or Netflix for conservatives, Fox Nation provides not the live news that sometimes surfaces on Fox News, but commentary shows and various series headlined by conservative personalities. In addition to brand names such as Sean Hannity, Dana Perino, Brian Kilmeade and Tucker Carlson, the streaming service has drafted former ESPNer Britt McHenry, commentator Tomi Lahren and professional wrestler Tyrus. And these commentators deserve better than the written descriptions for Fox Nation programs. Have a look.

Where a Hero Was Made

Brian [Kilmeade] travels to Nashville, TN to visit The Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, where he evolved in a military to political career. Brian also discusses the controversies surrounding the former President.

Or: ….where Jackson left behind his battlefield exploits to launch a political career.

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Inside the Vice President’s Residence

Brian travels to Washington DC to visit the home of the Vice President of the United States. Second Lady Karen Pence tours Brian inside and outside of the home, which sits on the Naval Observatory, just a few miles from The White House.

Or:…Karen Pence guides Brian on a tour of the home and the property, which is located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

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Mt. Rushmore’s Secret Room

Brian travels to Mt. Rushmore in search of a secret hallway behind the Thomas Jefferson’s head. United States Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke joins Brian on the hike up. Brian also learns about the manpower behind the creation of the massive sculpture.

Delete.

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The Duel that Changed America

Brian travels to Weehawken, NJ to learn about the deadly duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Joined by Historian David Eisenbach, they discuss the contentious moments that lead up to Hamilton’s death.

Or: Led.

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Scandalous: Chappaquiddick

On July 18, 1969, a puzzling incident tarnished the political career of Senator Ted Kennedy and smeared another scandal into the lives of “America’s Royal Family.” The mysterious events leading up to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne continue to loom over the entire nation with many questions remaining unanswered.

A celebratory event held by the Kennedy’s on Chappaquiddick Island became a night that forever changed the little town in Massachusetts. When 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne was offered a ride home by the Senator, she was unaware that her life would come to an end. Kennedy’s car drove off of Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond, with Kopechne drowning and the Senator returning back to his hotel room unharmed. Members of the media swarmed the premises, unraveling Ted Kennedy’s multiple mistakes the night of the accident and causing his political career to fade further into an unachievable distance.

Or: “seared.” And Kennedy had a long political career, “unachievable distance” notwithstanding.

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Freedom Rising

Rebirth, Rememberance, Resurrection, Ground Zero, 9/11, September 11 2001, 10 years later

Let’s hear it for the serial comma. And speaking of comma comedy, check out this description of the Fox Nation show “Moms”:

Host, Rachel Campos Duffy sits down with some of Fox News’ favorite moms for an inside look into life’s greatest challenges, motherhood.

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More:

War Stories With Oliver North

High Tech Warriors on the Battlefield

See how the US Army trains their soldiers in the scorching deserts of New Mexico on a system that uses both an unmanned “eye in the sky.”

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And what else?

Borked

Follow Bork as he is at the center of an epic battle over control of the U.S. Supreme Court between conservative Republican President Ronald Reagan and the Democrat Senator led by Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden.

Senators work in the Senate.

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Three Days in January

Three Days in January forever makes clear that Dwight D. Eisenhower still offers vital lessons for
our own time.

Okay.

War Stories With Oliver North

On The Border: The Third Front.

Oliver North and his War Stories team traveled to the states bordering this frontline to bring you the real story behind the war for the border.

Start over on that one.

These capsules yield only one conclusion. Fox Nation is a low-budget, seat-of-the-pants web play — a cheesy attempt to capitalize on the bottomless loyalty of the Fox News watcher. Meaning: It’ll probably turn out as a smashing success, misplaced commas and all.

I love the snarky passage at the beginning about live news sometimes showing up on Faux.

[GreyhoundFan]

"When Fox News staffers break ethics rules, discipline follows — or does it?"

Spoiler

There are ethical standards at Fox News, we’re told.

But just what they are, or how they’re enforced, is an enduring mystery.

When Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro appeared on stage with President Trump at a Missouri campaign rally, the network publicly acknowledged that this ran counter to its practices.

“Fox News does not condone any talent participating in campaign events,” the network said in a statement. “This was an unfortunate distraction and has been addressed.”

Or take what happened this week.

When the staff for “Fox & Friends” were found to have provided a pre-interview script for Scott Pruitt, then the Environmental Protection Agency head, the network frowned: “This is not standard practice whatsoever and the matter is being addressed internally with those involved.”

“Not standard practice” is putting it mildly, as the Daily Beast’s Maxwell Tani — who broke the story — noted, quoting David Hawkins, formerly of CBS News and CNN, who teaches journalism at Fordham University:

“Every American journalist knows that to provide scripts or articles to the government for review before publication or broadcast is a cardinal sin. It’s Journalism 101. This is worse than that. It would and should get you fired from any news organization with integrity.”

Some news organizations publish their standards and ethics guidelines for all to see.
In 2015, for example, BuzzFeed News published its policy with a note from a top editor, Shani O. Hilton, that said the purpose was “to provide context and support for BuzzFeed News staffers in making smart, responsible, and ethical choices” — and to keep staff accountable to readers.

The Washington Post and the New York Times make their policies readily available to the public, as does NPR. The idea — the right one — is that transparency and clarity are crucially important when it comes to enforcing ethics.

That concept is not universally accepted at media companies: As my colleague Erik Wemple wrote last spring, CNN not only doesn’t publish its guidelines but has fought in court to keep them private. (And like every media organization, CNN has had its share of standards problems, most recently letting guests and commentators lie about climate scientists without disclosing their financial ties to the fossil-fuel industry, as Media Matters reported.)

The broadcast TV networks mostly have standards editors and written policies but don’t make them public.

As for Fox News, it’s hard to know what network standards have been breached, whether written rules exist, or who — if anyone — is in charge of that fraught subject.

On Wednesday, I asked two high-ranking Fox News executives about this: John Stack, senior vice president for news coverage, whom I had met at a recent gathering of standards editors and media ombudsmen, past and present; and Irena Briganti, executive vice president of corporate communications for Fox News and Fox Business.

Does Fox News have a written ethics policy, I asked.

If so, is it published anywhere?

Is there a Fox News standards editor, even if he or she doesn’t have that specific title?

What Fox News standard or practice, exactly, was breached in the way the Pruitt appearance was handled, and what is the nature of the disciplinary measures being taken?

Neither Stack nor Briganti responded at all.

That’s no surprise, really.

The network can’t seem to figure out whether it’s an arm of the Trump administration or a news network — or somehow, impossibly, both.

It boasts of its traditional journalists such as Shepard Smith, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier but never seems to come down hard on its blatant propagandists and bad actors. After Fox personality Laura Ingraham mocked 17-year-old David Hogg last spring, following the massacre at his high school in Parkland, Fla., the network backed her up, despite the public outcry and an advertiser boycott.

Alisyn Camerota, a former Fox News anchor now at CNN, said on air recently that members of Fox brass ‘‘know vaguely’’ that their high-profile employees aren’t supposed to be actively campaigning or helping the Trump administration with its agenda.

‘‘They’re having a schizophrenic moment over there trying to figure out what their role is going to be with the Trump presidency,’’ Boston.com quoted Camerota.

The Trump administration and Fox News are so deeply intertwined that it’s hard to know where one ends and the other begins. At a Missouri rally early this month, the jubilant high-five between Hannity and his former Fox boss Bill Shine, now White House communications czar, said it all: Go, team!

As for adherence at Fox to traditional journalistic standards — which underlie the news media’s role in holding government accountable — vague lip service is as far as it seems to go.

And let stonewalling take care of the rest.

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Cartmann99]

Well, this solves a mystery for me. One of the Trumpnuts on Twitter had a picture of Celine Dion mixed in with the usual targets of wingnut rage.

 

[fraurosena]

 

[onekidanddone]

10 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

 

Oh Tucker, Tucker, Tucker tsk tsk, did Santa fill your stocking with coal again?

[AmazonGrace]

News doesn't happen if we don't talk about it. 

 

 

[onekidanddone]

Don't look behind the curtain.

Edited December 3, 2018 by onekidanddone

[fraurosena]

Is this awesome though?

Skewed media, be it to the right or to the left, can never be a good thing. Diversity and commitment to the truth is what media needs to have.

Or is Nextar a reasonably objective organisation? 

Edited December 4, 2018 by fraurosena
tenses, tenses

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[onekidanddone]

5 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

What is it with these FoxSpews women and that damn hair style? Are they all related or cloned?

[Cartmann99]

2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Please note the placement of the chair the woman is sitting in compared to the men. The men are right up next to the table so they can rest their arms on the table and easily reach their drinks and papers. Her chair is pushed back so that she has to lean forward to reach her drink, but the viewers at home have a better view of her legs and shoes.

[onekidanddone]

1 minute ago, Cartmann99 said:

Please note the placement of the chair the woman is sitting in compared to the men. The men are right up next to the table so they can rest their arms on the table and easily reach their drinks and papers. Her chair is pushed back so that she has to lean forward to reach her drink, but the viewers at home have a better view of her legs and shoes.

It is the required FoxSpews uniform for women. Above the knee dresses where they have to keep their legs crossed.

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Cartmann99]

15 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

We need a bang head on desk reaction for times like these. 

[onekidanddone]

18 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

We need a bang head on desk reaction for times like these. 

I've been wanting one for a long time. We need to get a petition going and then protest outside of FJ HQ until we get what we want.

What do we want? Head banging reaction.

When do we want it? Now! Or really when ever Admin can get to it, cuz we know you are all real busy and stuff.

Rufus Bless.

[fraurosena]

21 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

We need a bang head on desk reaction for times like these. 

Or this. 

[onekidanddone]

4 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Or this. 

 D'oh!  

OneKidAndDone hangs (bangs) head in shame. There already was one...

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"‘Stupid perjury charges’: Fox News’s Tucker Carlson spits on Mueller news"

Spoiler

Fox News host Tucker Carlson likes to boast that he runs a program that “is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink.”

On Tuesday night, Carlson welcomed Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to discuss a court filing by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team regarding the sentencing of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. According to the document, Flynn gave ample cooperation to the prosecutors and secured a sentencing recommendation of no prison time after he pleaded guilty a year ago for having lied to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition.

Once he and Herridge had finished a brief summation of the document, Carlson said, “Boy, there had better be a huge crime underlying all of this. We’re really going through a lot and so if this winds up being a bunch of stupid perjury charges, I mean, someone should be punished for it.”

And with that, Carlson switched from being the sworn enemy of lying to the sworn apologist for lying. How quickly a show’s mantra crumbles under the weight of ideological circumstance. Then again, Carlson on his program has argued that perjury really isn’t stupid. “Well, if the president lied about it or anything else under oath, yes, it is [a big deal],” argued Carlson in July whether Trump told the truth about a Trump Tower campaign meeting in June 2016 with a Russian. “That would be a big deal. Perjury is always a big deal. They don’t tell Bill Clinton’s defenders that.”

A steady critic of the Mueller investigation, Carlson sounded annoyed that he had to interrupt his regularly scheduled programming to chat with a straight-news-side employee — Herridge — about a development in the proceedings. For months and months, Carlson has been pooh-poohing Mueller’s investigation, wondering what evidence of collusion it has gathered, ripping people who have taken it seriously. After he had dispensed with the Mueller thing, Carlson did a segment on how PETA is seeking to discard idioms — “more than one way to skin a cat,” for example — that express hostility toward animals. “‘Bring home the bacon’ — I kind of like that,” said Carlson to PETA’s Ashley Byrne — just as his competitors were scrambling to make sense of the Flynn story.

Moments later, host Sean Hannity replaced Carlson’s nonchalance with his own spleen. The source of his anger, of course, wasn’t lies. Of Flynn, Hannity said at one point: “We know now he was coerced into pleading guilty only to a process crime — lying to investigators.” Ever wonder where Trump gets the idea that he can lie with impunity?

Before Mueller’s filing, Tuesday was a day of boring anticipation for cable news. Midnight was the deadline for the filing, and producers were all hyped up about it. The pregame chatter on all three major cable-news networks alternated with updates on memorial ceremonies for President George H.W. Bush and on the stock market. Fox News discussed the impending Mueller-Flynn filing extensively throughout the day, yielding an expectation that when the document finally surfaced, the network would grind out some news and analysis.

It just so happened that the news broke during “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” yet someone wanted to poke fun at vegans — an imperative that can’t possibly be rescheduled.

 

[Howl]

On 11/25/2018 at 2:18 AM, GreyhoundFan said:

Dear Anna, you hare-brained twit,  

A husband and wife is not a dynasty.  The Kennedys are a dynasty. The Bushs are a dynasty, and, uh, *scratches head, trying to THINK!*  Oh, right. The Trumps!  You know, where Trump has installed his unqualified child and his child's unqualified spouse, in influential high-level government positions where it is quite likely they have ripped off the government to enrich themselves, or in one noteworthy situation, to influence a foreign government, any foreign government,  to bail the unqualified child's unqualified spouse out of the world's worst, all time, very bad real estate investment on 666 Fifth Ave.  Fox people are the most irony impaired humans on the planet. 

 

Oh, and while I'm on the topic, it's not that the Clintons won't go away -- they are keeping very low profiles these days.   But you Fox people harp on them relentlessly.  And then you talk about prosecuting Hillary.  And then you harp on her emails.  And then you talk about her on Fox.  And Benghaaaaaaziiiiiii!  I also don't think that Big Government, whatever the f**k that is, created the Clintons, who both came from modest backgrounds, are very, very smart (brilliant) and educated themselves.

You know, the Clintons and specifically President Clinton, who (again, you hare-brained twit), balanced the Federal budget.