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Or could it have been because of her political views? Before you answer, let’s see if Fox censors others who say "Goddamn"… Hmmmmmm…..

This is obviously satire, but what makes it both funny and disturbing is how close this is to something like Fox News…. Missing Girl Probably Raped

What a surprise.  Fox New’s The Half Hour Comedy Hour, which was intended to be the rightwing answer to The Daily Show, has been "shelved": In a memo to senior producers this afternoon, FNC’s SVP of programming, Bill Shine announced the network "will not continue the Half Hour News Hour beyond its current 15 episode run." Shine did leave the … Read More

Looks like the Bancroft family is going to sell their controlling interest in the Dow Jones Company to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch. This means that Murdoch will control News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal. Which means…

Weekly World News ending publication While it isn’t strictly a genre publication, and it does bill itself as “The World’s Only Reliable Newspaper,” the editor has decided that this announcement does fall within SFScope’s purview: American Media has decided to suspend publication of Weekly World News, both the print publication and the web site. No reason was given at press … Read More

Someone at CNN needs to fix this dangling modifier: Toddler missing after flooding kills 5 I took that to mean that a toddler, who was missing after a flood, apparently went out and killed 5 people. UPDATE:  Well, they changed the headline.  It’s grammatically correct now, but much much worse.

"Don’t mention the war": Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The difference was more stark during daytime news hours than in prime-time opinion shows. The Iraq war occupied 20 percent of CNN’s daytime … Read More

At least O’Reilly admits it: O’REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. In that … Read More

Not making this up: A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls “a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.” The study documented six months worth, or 115 episodes, of O’Reilly’s … Read More

So Cheryl says to me that Imus has a constitutional right to say whatever he wants. She’s right; of course he does.  The First Amendment says that the government cannot impinge on your freedom of speech. However, freedom of speech does not mean you are free from the consequences of your speech.  If your 8 year old son or daughter … Read More

Just because a shooting happened in your building, doesn’t mean it is "breaking news" to the rest of us.