As the 2012 presidential election draws ever closer, Fox News seem to be augmenting their traditional right-wing spin with a forsaking of logic. The graph shown above clearly shows the news network attempting to claim that November’s 8.6% unemployment rate is greater than March’s 8.8% and equal to April’s 9.0%. Could it be that a [...]
It is common knowledge how seriously US right wingers take their nations constitution, and now Fox News have hit upon a novel way to use it to rally their viewers to a cause: make a new section up themselves! In coverage of an ongoing legal row over whether US Supreme Court justice should recuse herself [...]
True to form, Scrapbook notes that Fox News has been continuing its role as a bastion of even-handedness. Whilst covering New York police evicting protesters from the Occupy Wall Street camp, footage was shown with a subtitle reading “Good Riddance”. “Fair and Balanced”, Fox News style.
Controversial right-wing commentator Ann Coulter caused a stir on Fox News by claiming that black Republicans were both more impressive and intelligent than their Democrat counterparts. Embarking on a Top Trumps-style comparison of black politicians, Coulter concluded: “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks.” Coulter’s impassioned comments were spurred on by her vehement [...]
Just days after filling Glenn Beck’s vacated Fox News timeslot, conservative anchor Eric Bolling has already been caught trying to rewrite the history books. On the new panel show The Five, Bolling not only declared the US “safe” under President Bush’s leadership, he said he “didn’t remember” any terrorist attacks on the US between 2000 and [...]
Virulently right-wing Fox News has reported the death of Barack Obama in a shooting in Iowa. Fortunately, however, the network appears to have been the victim of an Independence Day prank by hackers. After messages announced that the @foxnewspolitics Twitter account was in control of a group identifying itself as the “Script Kiddies”, the station announced it [...]
In a section of Shaun Hannity’s programme captioned “Big Bird Bias”, Fox News provided a platform for guests to claim that Sesame Street is partly responsible for homosexuality and … “a direct assault on our country’s moral foundation” Ben Shapiro, author of Primetime Propaganda, bemoans the liberalisation of society through mainstream media “bias”, laying the [...]
