FOX Facts

I watch FOX News so much it makes me sick. I am infuriated and physically sick from watching it, but I can't seem to pull my eyes away. It is truly the cigarette of television. I've done some research about FOX that I will share with you; this way you can get the jist of it without exposing yourself to the carcinogenic radiation.

• The O'Reilly Factor is always taped and edited. It is one of very few news programs of it's kind that does not broadcast live.
  


• The CEO, Chairman, and President of FOX News is Roger Ailes, an Ohio University graduate. How shameful.
  


• After he began his career in broadcasting, Ailes started Ailes Communications, Inc and was successful as a political strategist for Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Sr. and in producing campaign TV commercials for Republican political candidates.


• FOX News currently leads the cable news market, earning better ratings than its chief competitors CNN and MSNBC combined.


• The BBC reported that FOX News saw its profits double during the Iraq conflict, due in part to what the report called "patriotic" coverage of the war. By some reports, at the height of the conflict, they enjoyed as much as a 300% increase in viewership, averaging 3.3 million viewers daily .
  


• John Prescott Ellis, a full cousin of George W. Bush, was one of four consultants assigned by the Voter News Service to FOX News on the night of the 2000 Presidential election; thus he was part of the team that recommended FOX News be the first to retract its call of Florida for Gore and the first to call Florida for Bush, which FOX News did at 2:16 a.m. Ellis admitted to informing Jeb and George Bush several times by telephone how projections were going on election night


• A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes reported that viewers of the Fox Network local affiliates or Fox News were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three misperceptions:
  
  * 67% of FOX viewers believed that the "US has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for both NPR and PBS).
  * 33% of FOX viewers believed that the "US has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction since the war ended". (Compared with 23% for CBS, 20% for both CNN and NBC, 19% for ABC and 11% for both NPR and PBS)
  * 35% of FOX viewers believed that "the majority of people in the world favor the US having gone to war" with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for both NPR and PBS)
  
  
• A news article in October 2004 by Carl Cameron, chief political correspondent of FOX News, contained three fabricated quotes attributed to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The quotes included: "Women should like me! I do manicures," "Didn't my nails and cuticles look great?" and "I'm metrosexual [Bush's] a cowboy." FOX News retracted the story and apologized, citing a "jest" that became published through "fatigue and bad judgment, not malice".
  


• A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in 2005 found that, in covering the Iraq War in 2004, 73% of FOX News stories included editorial opinions, compared to 29% on MSNBC and 2% on CNN. The same report found FOX less likely than CNN to present multiple points of view.
  

Now you know, friends, don't fall for it. This election was won because of Karl Rove's 3-pillar stragedy. The three pillars were Misinformation, Manipulation, and Money; without any one, the Republicans would have surely failed.