Via MediaMatters September 05, 2011 4:55 pm ET by Matt Gertz Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech. Conservatives are also attacking President Obama, who appeared at the event, for “sanctioning violence against […]
NEW YORK-Charles Rangel, a democratic congressman from New York City had a harsh verbal exchange with Fox News host Laura Ingraham over her conversation with Republican congressman Allen West, in which she referred to the Democratic Party as “the plantation.” Rangel became angry at Ingraham and referred to her as “just a pretty girl” which […]
Fox News Fox News’ news-aggregation website, Fox Nation, made an odd and many say “race-baiting” editorial decision Friday when it splashed a story about Obama’s birthday over its homepage with the headline “Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs” and a photo of Obama next to three black celebrities who attended. The report, which aggregated a […]
BROOKLYN, NY — White firefighters’ criminal pasts are often ignored when it comes to hiring decisions, a former New York Fire Department official said yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court. The sworn deposition by Patricia Kavaler, an assistant commissioner for personnel for the FDNY, was entered as evidence in a case where Black firefighters are trying […]
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams went on the Sean Hannity show to discuss the current debt crisis. Williams, who many describe as a moderate, defended President Obama from Hannity’s verbal assaults. Hannity, who is a Republican, claimed that Obama has been the “worst ideologue to ever live in that house on Pennsylvania Avenue.” He […]
NEW YORK- Dan Cooper, a former executive for Fox News, is claiming that Fox News had a “Black Ops” squad that would illegally obtain records for “enemies” of Fox News. The UK Telegraph reports: He first alleged that the records were obtained by researchers in the “brain room” in 2005 in an article on his […]
5. Col Allan. Editor Of The New York Post Col Allan is the Australian born editor for Rupert Murdoch’s flagship U.S. paper, The New York Post. Like Fox News, The Post combines tabloid journalism with racism and right-wing propaganda. Allan was at the center of the controversy of the Obama-Chimp cartoon drawn by Post cartoonist, […]
In light of the News Corporation scandal, Rupert Murdoch has been called almost every name in the book. Some have even characterized him as the devil himself. Media outlets, Fox News adversaries and liberal pundits alike have taken advantage of the media tycoon’s tumultuous fall. Certainly, the bias and somewhat racial-innuendo reporting of Murdoch’s Fox […]
It appears the Rupert Murdoch, News Corp scandal is not only stirring controversy in the U.K., as it has now spilled into American media. On his CNN show “Reliable Sources,” Howard Kurtz condemned Fox News, which is owned by News Corp, for not covering the scandal in which its sister company is being investigated for […]
Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, was arrested by British police Sunday for allegations of corruption and phone hacking. Brooks is the 10th person to be arrested in connection with an investigation of phone hacking at the News of the World, a British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch’s news conglomerate News Corporation. News Corp. […]
Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, was arrested by British police Sunday for allegations of corruption and phone hacking. Brooks is the 10th person to be arrested in connection with an investigation of phone hacking at the News of the World, a British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch’s news conglomerate News Corporation. News Corp. […]
WASHINGTON — The FBI will investigate Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Fox News parent company and owner of several newspapers world wide including the New York Post for possibly hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims. The Wall Street Journal reports (The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp): The Federal Bureau of Investigation has […]
