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FOX NEWS CRIES CENSORSHIP Friday, May 7 2004 Fox News is claiming that an Atlanta billboard company is censoring a sign that it rents across the street from CNN's Atlanta offices. The company has used the sign since 1999 to needle CNN about its falling market share among news viewers and chide it about apparent missteps. It had recently wanted the sign changed to read: "Now That CNN's Ratings are Gone With the Wind, Our Work on This Board Is Done. We Love (more) WALLACE CHASTISES KOPPEL FOR READING LIST OF WAR DEAD Thursday, May 6 2004 Chris Wallace, who jumped from ABC to Fox News last year, has joined the critics of last week's Nightline broadcast in which anchor Ted Koppel read aloud the names of the 721 U.S. servicemen who have died in Iraq. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Wallace said that he was "offended" by the program, adding, "I take Ted at his word that he did not intend the show to be a ratings stunt (more) |
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The editor of the Los Angeles Times has leveled a scathing attack against Fox News Channel, charging that the cable news network practices "pseudo journalism" and is intent on manipulating its audience. Delivering the annual Ruhl Lecture at the University of Oregon last Thursday, editor John S. Carroll cited a study that showed that 80 percent of the people who watch Fox News Channel believed either that: weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq; a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda had been demonstrated; or most of the world approved of the U.S. action in Iraq. "How in the world could Fox have left its listeners so deeply in the dark?" Carroll asked, according to Friday's edition of the Oregon Daily Emerald, the university's student newspaper.
