Andrew Beaujon
May 20, 2013
5:01 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
May 10, 2013
12:13 pm
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed's Jessica Testa
reports on the life of Jodon Romero, whose suicide following a car chase
was broadcast nationally last year by Fox News. When Romero's sister Nature asked Testa whether she'd seen the chase, she recalls, "I stumble."
Yes, I watched the chase. Yes, I saw its awful conclusion.
But I also reported on it. I wrote about Fox's mistake, and uploaded a video of Fox's mistake, and helped make Fox's mistake go viral. How do you tell a grieving sister that? Because of a "severe human error," thousands watched her brother die in real time, but because of you, hundreds of thousands watched it later?
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Joshua Gillin
Apr. 11, 2013
2:50 pm
Fox News | Huffington Post | AnnCoulter.com | New York
Fox News
has apparently taken down a column written by Ann Coulter that made a reference to killing blogger Meghan McCain in order to push Republicans to vote for gun-control laws.
The column in question, published on Fox Nation Wednesday, made the apparent joke to point out what it would take for Republicans to join Democrats in passing gun-control legislation. The post, which is still available on
Coulter's own blog, began:
Obama has been draping himself in families of the children murdered in Newtown.
MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!)
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 9, 2013
9:06 am
Denver Post |
CNN
A judge in Arapahoe County, Colo., said Fox News reporter Jana Winter
won't yet be compelled to testify. Attorneys for James Holmes, who is accused of last year's theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., want Winter to
reveal which law enforcement sources told her Holmes had sent a disturbing notebook to a University of Colorado psychiatrist.
Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. ruled Winter won't have to testify until he decides whether to admit the notebook as evidence, John Ingold reports.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 8, 2013
7:46 am
Fox News |
BuzzFeed |
Courthouse News Service
Jana Winter won't reveal which law enforcement sources told her Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect James Holmes sent a notebook to a University of Colorado psychiatrist. And she may go to jail because of it.
The Fox News reporter's
scoop last July is at the center of a
fight between the reporter and Holmes' attorneys that's now playing out in an Arapahoe County courtroom, an unbylined report on Fox's site says. The judge who approved a subpoena for her sources -- who Holmes' attorneys claim violated a gag order by sharing details about the notebook -- has since stepped down, and at a hearing April 1 Judge Carlos Samour Jr. said the motion "presented her with a 'Hobson’s Choice,' " the Fox report says:
If forced to testify, Winter would either reveal her confidential sources in the nation's highest profile trial – perhaps destroying her career as an investigative reporter – or spend up to six months in jail, according to Judge Samour.
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Mar. 6, 2013
10:57 am
Vanity Fair excerpts Zev Chafets’s biography of Roger Ailes:
For months, Roger Ailes and I had been meeting regularly at Fox News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, at his home in Putnam County, and at public and private gatherings. In that time I got a closer look at Roger Ailes than any journalist who doesn’t work for him ever has. He is plainspoken, wryly profane, caustic, and above all competitive …
[News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch often drops by Ailes’s office to joke and gossip about politics. “Roger and I have a close personal friendship,” he told me. Ailes agrees—up to a point.
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Zev Chafets, Vanity Fair book excerpt
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 27, 2013
12:10 pm
Center for Public Integrity |
OpenSecrets.org
News Corp's political action committee
gave 52 percent of its donations during the 2012 election cycle to Democratic candidates, reports Dave Levinthal. The donations provide "a notable, if not striking contrast with Fox News' conservative reputation," Levinthal writes.
In January, News America-FOXPAC gave money to five Democratic candidates and no money to Republicans, though it "contributed $15,000 in January to the National Republican Congressional Committee, which may by law accept significantly larger contributions than candidate committees," Levinthal writes.
Prominent Democrats receiving News America-FOXPAC cash last election cycle included Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, as well as House Minority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina and Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Feb. 11, 2013
2:57 pm
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Julie Moos
Feb. 6, 2013
4:58 pm
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