Julie Moos
June 13, 2012
11:34 am
Civility in America (PDF)
An online survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted in April found that 62 percent consider the media uncivil.
While this is considerably lower than last year’s incivility rating of 74%, it ranks among the top five most uncivil aspects of American life. A contributing reason to that perception may be that the vast majority of Americans agree that the media is more interested in controversy than facts (82%).
Cable channels were viewed as more uncivil than broadcast networks, and PBS was considered most civil.
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- "Americans tend to rate the civility levels of similar TV outlets alike -- cable news channels such as Fox News, MSNBC and CNN are perceived similarly as are broadcast news networks such as NBC News, ABC News and CBS News," says the report.
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Julie Moos
Apr. 13, 2012
7:28 am
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Jan. 5, 2012
3:47 pm
…Murdoch himself has had relatively little to do with Fox News. He is often as confounded by it as any liberal. He is frequently castigated for its rude excesses by his large circle of liberal friends (or, rather, his wife’s circle of Hollywood liberal friends). His family fulminates about it behind and in front of his back. It is, to them, their company’s biggest embarrassment – more than the hacking scandal, even. And the man who runs it, Roger Ailes, is – more than hacking – the damnedest problem for the Murdochs at News Corp. Indeed, one of the unintended and, for the Murdochs, infuriating consequences of hacking-gate is that it has made Ailes even more powerful and indispensable to the company.
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Michael Wolff in British GQ
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 15, 2011
11:17 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 14, 2011
11:55 am
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Steve Myers
Dec. 2, 2011
1:03 pm
The Daily Beast
Kelly Knaub reports that News Corp.'s building, which houses Fox News, "is guarded by a 24-hour-a-day New York Police Department security detail seven days a week, a patrol that one security expert estimated costs the city at least half a million dollars a year." Although a police spokesman suggests otherwise, Knaub says no other network receives the same level of police protection.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne, when asked why Fox News receives the protection when other media networks do not, responded in an email to The Daily Beast, “Each of the networks gets police coverage to varying extents based on threat information.” But interviews with security officials at other major networks–including CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC–revealed that the NYPD does not provide any security details to these locations. Instead, they contract security guards from private vendors, employ their own security staff and, in some cases, hire a paid detail of off-duty or retired police officers, whose cost is incurred at the network’s expense.
Her conclusion: "It appears to be fueled by the security obsession of Fox News chief Roger Ailes."
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 2, 2011
11:40 am
Fox News
The folks at Fox News are a little miffed about being left off Facebook's list of the 40 "
most-shared articles" of 2011. An
unbylined story on FoxNews.com accuses "the world's largest social network" of "acting unsocially" because its list is dominated by The New York Times, CNN, Yahoo and The Huffington Post. Fox claims it had at least a couple stories (including
how to deal with a potential zombie apocalypse) with more Facebook shares than others on the list, but says Facebook is using a "a mystery metric the company refused to share, leaving many news agencies friendless."
Update: Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich sent us a response explaining how the articles were ranked:
We included all news organizations, including Fox News, in our search, and looked for the articles with the most shares, likes and referral traffic (after the articles were shared, which were clicked the most by friends). To ensure we found the most shared articles, we took a comprehensive look at all the ways an article could have been shared (this included clicking the Like button, clicking the Share button, copying and pasting a link to a news article and posting it to the profile, and sharing a share on Facebook by clicking "Share" beneath an article after a friend posted).
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Julie Moos
Nov. 22, 2011
8:07 am
New overnight and updates on developing stories:
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Steve Myers
Nov. 21, 2011
2:41 pm
Fairleigh Dickinson University (via Political Wire)
The results of a new poll "show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all," says Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson. According to the telephone poll of 612 New Jersey adults, Fox News viewers are 18 percentage points less likely to know that the Egyptian uprising was successful, and 6 percentage points less likely to know that the one in Syria has not been. The most informed respondents, across several questions: People who listen to NPR and those who watch Sunday morning news programs and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Although Stewart doesn't spend a lot of time on the topics in the poll, Cassino says, "when he does talk about something, his viewers pick up a lot more information than they would from other news sources." ||
Related: PolitiFact tells Jon Stewart that Fox News viewers are not ‘most consistently misinformed’ |
Jon Stewart ‘apologizes’ for remark
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