Surprised? Fox News dismisses phone-hacking


by Sunny Hundal    
July 15, 2011 at 6:06 pm

This, from Fox News last night this morning comes as no surprise.

To their credit, the Sky News coverage has been completely different in tone and depth.

Update: CNN also covered how Fox News has ignored the scandal (via @am4eo)


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1. Leon Wolfson

Well no, and as it’s not surprising, it’s news precisely…why?
[/tongue in cheek]

Fox and Friends is the FNC breakfast offering, and Steve Doocy (the one asking the suitably loaded questions) is one of the three regular hosts. I did look at this morning misinformation machine back when Warren Buffett had made favourable noises about health care reform:

http://zelo.tv/qd0UBv

and the way he was misrepresented was pretty bad, but all done with a straight face.

Didn’t Fox News dodge a lawsuit by claiming to be purely for entertainment purposes?

He’s deliberately confusing phone hacking, with computer hacking.

It’s just Fox News being fair and balanced again! (smile)

John Ruddy: they’re also, and much more insidiously, creating the impression for the average Fox viewer that the NotW was a victim of a hack, not a perpetrator thereof. Every single other entity and instance mentioned in the entire slot is a victim of cyber espionage or vandalism. The NotW was a perpetrator.

That was truly professional work by the Fox team, there. Very clever, in a purely craft-skills-of-propaganda sense.


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  3. Clive

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  4. Mark Hanson

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  21. Rocky Hamster

    Surprised? Fox News dismisses phone-hacking | Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/6QtXn8g via @libcon #NOTW #hacking #murdoch #foxnews

  22. Stephe Meloy

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  23. Kath Grant

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  24. Vera Valley

    Surprised? FoxNews dismiss phonehacking | Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/8nadIUL via @libcon & fail 2C distinction in Hack of murder victim

  25. Vera Valley

    FoxNews dismiss phonehacking | Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/8nadIUL via @libcon Fox FAIL 2C distinction in Hacking of murder victim(s)

  26. Vera Valley

    #FoxNews dismiss phonehacking | Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/8nadIUL via @libcon Fox FAIL 2C distinction in Hacking of murder victim(s)

  27. Vera Valley

    http://t.co/8nadIUL #NI&#NewsCorp #Hacked, stole&deleted #Dowler's messages & bent the Truth. #FoxNews Condones hacking murder victim(s).

  28. Vera Valley

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  29. Bearded Socialist

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  30. Bearded Socialist

    Surprised? Fox News dismisses phone-hacking | Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/6DGieyP via @libcon

  31. Rónán Burtenshaw

    Fox News dismisses phone-hacking http://t.co/UKvRxPZ Also see Murdoch's sop interview on Fox Business. All his "news" outlets at it.





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