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Since its inception, the Fox News Channel has been the subject of controversy. Critics of the channel accuse it of political bias towards the right, accusations the network has steadfastly denied .

Ownership and management

• Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, the owner of Fox News Channel. He has been a subject of controversy and criticism as a result of his substantial influence in both the print and broadcast media. Accusations against him include the "dumbing down" of news and introducing "mindless vulgarity" in place of genuine journalism, and having his own outlets produce news that serve his own political and financial agendas. According to the BBC website: "To some he is little less than the devil incarnate, to others, the most progressive mover-and-shaker in the media business" . In America, he is the publisher of the conservative New York Post tabloid and the conservative magazine of opinion, The Weekly Standard.

• Photocopied memos from Fox News executive John Moody instructed the network's on-air anchors and reporters to use positive language when discussing anti-abortion viewpoints, the Iraq war, and tax cuts, as well as requesting that the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal be put in context with the other violence in the area . Former Fox News producer Charlie Reina explained, "The roots of Fox News Channel's day-to-day on-air bias are actual and direct. They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically each morning, addressing what stories will be covered and, often, suggesting how they should be covered. To the newsroom personnel responsible for the channel's daytime programming, The Memo is the bible. If, on any given day, you notice that the Fox anchors seem to be trying to drive a particular point home, you can bet The Memo is behind it".

• CEO Roger Ailes was formerly a media/image consultant for Republican Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Controversy was generated in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on New York, when it was revealed that Roger Ailes was sending political advice via 'back channel messages' to the Bush administration through its chief political aide, Karl Rove. According to Bob Woodward, in his book Bush At War, the messages consisted of warnings that the American public would quickly lose support for the Bush administration unless it employed "the harshest measures possible" in response to the 9/11 attacks. The New York Times responded to the controversy: "Politicos who morph into journalists do themselves and their new profession no favour if they fail to shed their partisan habits...Any other network news executive might have trouble keeping his job after a similar misstep. Mr. Ailes will undoubtedly hold onto his post, given Fox's success in challenging CNN and MSNBC in the ratings."

• George W. Bush's cousin, John Prescott Ellis, was Fox News' projection team manager during the general election of 2000. After speaking numerous times on election night with his cousins George and Jeb, Ellis, at 2:16 AM, reversed Fox News' call for Florida as a state won by Al Gore. Critics allege this was a premature decision, given the impossibly razor-thin margin (we now know it was 537 of 5.9 million votes ), which created the "lasting impression that Bush 'won' the White House - and all the legal wrangling down in Florida is just a case of Democratic 'snippiness'." Others claim that, by this reasoning, Fox News and the other networks were even more premature in initially calling the state for Gore, a call made while polls were still open, possibly depressing voter turnout for Bush.

Reports, polls and studies

According to a Journalism.org survey of 547 journalists from various publications and news outlets, Fox News Channel was found to be most easily identifiable for serving a partisan ideological position:

'At the same time, the single news outlet that strikes most journalists as taking a particular ideological stance - either liberal or conservative - is Fox News Channel. Among national journalists, more than twice as many could identify a daily news organization that they think is "especially conservative in its coverage" than one they believe is "especially liberal" (82% vs. 38%). And Fox has by far the highest profile as a conservative news organization; it was cited unprompted by 69% of national journalists.'

The "signature political news show" of the Fox News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume, was found to have a strong bias in their choice of guests, overwhelmingly choosing conservatives over 'non-conservatives' to appear in interviews. This was the finding of the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), noted in a study taken across a 19 week period from June 2003 to December 2003. They found the ratio of conservative guests to liberals to be 50:6.

A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, in the Winter 03-04 issue of Political Science Quarterly, reported that viewers of the Fox Network local affiliates or Fox News were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three views which the authors labeled as misperceptions  :

• 67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. 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). However, the belief that "Iraq was directly involved in September 11" was held by 33% of CBS viewers and only 24% of Fox viewers.
• 33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. 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 favor the U.S. 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)
• Fox viewers were unique in that those who paid greater attention to news were moderately more likely to have these misperceptions than those who paid less or no attention to news.

Many conservatives have criticized the PIPA poll. Ann Coulter characterized the PIPA findings as "misperceptions of pointless liberal factoids" and called it a "hoax poll". Bill O'Reilly called the study "absolute crap". James Taranto, editor of OpinionJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal's online editorial page, called the poll "pure propaganda." According to two sources, although not confirmable on the PIPA site, PIPA issued a clarification on Oct. 17, 2003 in response to the misuse of the poll's findings, and to criticisms spawned by that misuse. The reports say that PIPA stated that "The findings were not meant to and cannot be used as a basis for making broad judgments about the general accuracy of the reporting of various networks," and that PIPA also noted that the results of the poll were intended to show correlation, not causation. .

A poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports during September 2004 found that Fox News was second to CBS as the most politically biased network in the public view. 37% of respondents thought CBS, in the wake of the memogate scandal, was trying to help elect John Kerry, while 34% of respondents said they believed that Fox's goal was to "help elect Bush".

A study published by Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science at UCLA, comparing political bias from such news outlets as the New York Times, USA Today, the Drudge Report, the Los Angeles Times, and Fox News’ Special Report, concluded that Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume had an Americans for Democratic Action rating that was closest to the political center, and that Special Report was the most centrist news program on television. Groseclose used the number of times a host cited a particular think tank on his or her program and compared it with the number of times a member of the U.S. Congress cited a think tank, correlating that with the politician's Americans for Democratic Action rating .

Geoff Nunberg, a professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley and a liberal National Public Radio commentator, criticized the methodology of the study on his personal blog, and contends that its conclusions are invalid . He points to what he saw as a Groseclose's reliance on interpretations of facts and data that were taken from sources that were not, in his view, credible. Groseclose and Professor Jeff Milyo rebutted, saying Nunberg "shows a gross misunderstanding our statistical method and the actual assumptions upon which it relies" .

A common criticism is that Fox News journalists often favor the presentation of personal opinion over the basic reporting of the core facts of the story. A Project on Excellence in Journalism study showed that 68 percent of Fox cable stories contained personal opinions, as compared to MSNBC at 27 percent and CNN at 4 percent.

A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed "a striking rise in the politicization of cable TV news audiences . . . This pattern is most apparent with the fast-growing Fox News Channel."

Criticisms of pundits

• John Gibson is the host of an afternoon hour of news coverage called "The Big Story", and is frequently cited as an example of Fox News blurring the lines between objective reporting and opinion/editorial programming. Gibson angered some liberals immediately after the 2000 presidential election controversy when, during the opinion segment of his show, Gibson said: "Is this a case where knowing the facts actually would be worse than not knowing? I mean, should we burn these ballots , preserve them in amber, or shred them?" and "George Bush is going to be president. And who needs to know that he's not a legitimate president?" . An opinion piece on the Hutton Inquiry decision, in which John Gibson said the BBC had "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest" and that the BBC reporter, Andrew Gilligan, "insisted on air that the Iraqi Army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American Military" . In reviewing viewer complaints, Ofcom (the United Kingdom's statutory broadcasting regulator) ruled that Fox News had breached the program code in three areas: "respect for truth", "opportunity to take part", and "personal view programmes opinions expressed must not rest upon false evidence". Fox News admitted that Gilligan had not actually said the words that John Gibson appeared to attribute to him; OfCom rejected the claim that it was intended to be a paraphrase. (See ). Gibson has also supported Karl Rove for outing Valerie Plame, called Joe Wilson a "liar", claimed that "the far left" is working for Al Qaeda and openly admitted that he wished that Paris had been host to the 2012 Olympic Games, because it would have subjected the city to the threat of terrorism instead of London .
• Business anchor Neil Cavuto, who is also Fox News' vice president of business news and a current member of the network's executive committee, has been described as a "Bush apologist" by critics after conducting an allegedly deferential interview with President George W. Bush. Democratic strategists and politicians boycotted Cavuto's show in 2004 after he claimed, on air, that Bin Laden was rooting for John Kerry in the presidential election, critics contend, in an attempt to create a backlash among voters casting ballots for Bush, against Bin Laden's alleged pick . Cavuto has also received criticism for gratuitous footage and photos of scantily clad supermodels and porn stars on his show, Your World with Neil Cavuto .
• Brit Hume created controversy, particularly with watchdog groups such as Media Matters for America, when he made the factually incorrect claim that "U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California". In fact, a United States soldier in Iraq is actually 60 times more likely to be killed than an individual in California. . Hume also drew criticism from Media Matters, Al Franken, and Keith Olbermann when he allegedly distorted a quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt in early 2005 to make it sound like Roosevelt would have supported President George W. Bush's Social Security privatization plan.
• Alan Colmes is touted by Fox as "a hard-hitting liberal" , but he admitted to USA Today that "I'm quite moderate" and most left-wing activists consider him too weak to provide an effective balance for self-professed "arch-conservative" Sean Hannity. Liberal viewers have long found Colmes' style infuriating, particularly in contrast to the outspoken Hannity; and Colmes himself has sometimes taken more right-leaning positions, such as supporting Rudy Giuliani for mayor of New York City and defending Mississippi Senator Trent Lott after the latter made racially insensitive remarks at the 100th birthday party for the late Sen. Strom Thurmond. He has been characterized by several newspapers as being Sean Hannity's 'sidekick' . Liberal commentator Al Franken lambasted Colmes in his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, accusing him of refusing to ask tough questions during debates and neglecting to challenge erroneous claims made by Hannity or his guests.

False reporting

On March 23 2003 the FOX News channel headline banners were rolling: "Huge chemical weapons factory found in Iraq... Reports: 30 Iraqis surrender at chem weapons plant... coal. troops holding Iraqi in charge of chem. weapons." On the next day the Dow Jones Newswires reported, that, U.S. officials had admitted that morning that the site contained no chemicals at all and had been abandoned long before Gulf War II.

A news article on the Fox News website during 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 a cowboy". Fox News retracted the story and apologized , citing a "jest" that became published through "fatigue and bad judgement, not malice."

Fox polls

Fox has come under attack for its polls. A review of its polls at the website "polling report" , specifically on the approval rating of George W. Bush, have shown that Fox consistently pulls in the highest approval ratings for the president and the lowest disapproval ratings, with a high number of "undecideds", almost always in double digits, which is a feat that no other pollster has matched. In response to these allegations, Fox News has stated that there are more Republicans in the United States than Democrats, and notes that it does not weigh its polls accordingly. Most polls, however, illustrate that Democrats have never held a smaller percentage of the population than Republicans, and generally are ahead by about 3-5% on average, which would make a huge difference in polling results if Republicans and Democrats are given equal footing.

Fox News produced three polls of presidential approval ratings between January 1st and March 2nd 2006. Out of twenty-eight national polls conducted during that period, only two showed George W. Bush with disapproval ratings below 50%, and both were Fox polls. The Fox polls showed disapproval as low as 47%, with 44% approval. This was the smallest margin of difference of any poll taken in four months, despite polls within the exact same frame of time showing disapproval ratings as high as 59% and approval typically around 40%. A poll taken by Ap-Isos on the day after Fox's poll showed ten percent higher disapproval than Fox's.

Other criticisms

• Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, a documentary film on Fox News by left wing activist Robert Greenwald, makes allegations of bias in Fox News by interviewing a number of former employees who discuss the network's practices. For example, Frank O'Donnell, a former employee identified as "Fox News producer", says: "We were stunned, because up until that point, we were allowed to do legitimate news. Suddenly, we were ordered from the top to carry Republican, right-wing propaganda", after being told what to say about Ronald Reagan. O'Donnell worked for Washington, D.C. Fox affiliate WTTG, which while a local affiliate, is not the Fox News Channel cable network. Fox News has always stressed that affiliates are separate entities from Fox News Channel, and Fox News has no editorial oversight of any Fox affiliate. The network made an official response and a review of select employees featured in the film and their employment (or non-employment) with Fox News.

• CNN founder Ted Turner accused Fox News of being "dumbed down" and "propaganda" and equated the network's popularity to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930's Germany, during a speech to the National Association of Television Program Executives. . In response, a Fox News spokesperson said "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network, and now his mind. We wish him well." The Anti-Defamation League, to whom Turner had apologized in the past for a similar comparison, said Turner is "a recidivist who hasn't learned from his past mistakes."

• Carl Cameron, chief political correspondent of Fox News was allowed to cover the Bush Campaign in 2000 despite the fact his wife was campaigning for Bush.

• Special Report with Brit Hume regularly features a panel of political commentators touted as an "allstar panel" and "diverse" by Fox News. The panel generally consists of three people: Fred Barnes, a self-described neoconservative hawk, Mort Kondracke, a self-described conservative Democrat (Kondracke has said that he is "disgusted with the Democratic Party" and that the only reason he isn't a Republican is because "Republicans have failed to be true to themselves as conservatives", referring to deficit spending in the Ronald Reagan administration), and Mara Liasson, a 'touted' liberal by the program. In addition, Brit Hume himself maintains a conservative point of view, even taking up that position on the Sunday night equivalent of his own panel, arguing from the conservative Republican position against other, noticeably more liberal Fox News panelists such as Juan Williams, who is rarely featured on the Special Report. Critics contend this overwhelmingly tilts the so-called "diverse" political discussions into one-sided conservative commentary.

• FOX News Channel has received criticism for seemingly gratitious airing of footage and photos of supermodels, strippers, and porn stars in revealing or suggestive poses:

1. On a March 2006 broadcast of Fox News Live, Martha MacCallum reported a story about a serial killer hunting prostitutes in Florida, a popular Spring Break party spot. During the subsequent interview, footage was shown of young women in bikinis were shown dancing and partying. Critics said this was equating the vacationing girls with the dead prostitiutes.
2. FOX News' "premiere business news show," Your World with Neil Cavuto, has faced criticism for its constant reporting of stories (in one way or another) relating to pornography. Past guests on the show have included supermodel Anna Benson and former porn star Mary Carey. In December 2005, it did a story of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and Your World was the first show to do an interview with Playboy's "Playmate of the Year" in 2006.
3. Aside from Your World, FOX News was also criticzed for its coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards for constantly removing the on-screen text to show the female reporters' revealing dresses (the removal of the texts wasn't done at any other point during coverage).

• Fox faced criticism for its perceived pushing of the War on Christmas. A notable slew of Fox news commentators, including John Gibson, Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity devoted much of the air time during the fall 2005 season to alleged acts of "anti-Christian" campaigns by the American Civil Liberties Union to have Christmas decorations removed from public display. On an episode of Fox News Watch, one Fox News pundit, Neil Gabler, attacked the network's other personalities for pursuing the story. In his words, "Fox News has been pumping the hell out of this thing."

• Various media watchdogs have noticed a trend in Fox News reporting in which Fox News reporters, anchors and writers (for its website) alter their language to immediately adopt the rhetoric of the Bush administration. For example, in 2002 the White House began referring to suicide bombings as "homicide bombings", Fox immediately changed its own language to match while other media outlets continued using the traditional phrase . The same can be said for "terrorist surveillance", referred to as NSA wiretapping by most commentators until the White House redesignated it . Stories of the War in Iraq are usually accompanied by an on-screen banner saying "War on Terror", a controversial assertion in light of Iraq's previously minimal role as a terrorist training ground. Fox News commentators such as Bill O'Reilly, Neil Cavuto, John Gibson and Brit Hume have also been found to use terms popular within conservative circles, such as "the gay agenda", "abortion on demand", "activist judges" and "secular progressives" .

• During the Terri Schiavo controversy in early 2005, Fox came under attack for its coverage of the affair, which had been pushed by Fox news personality Sean Hannity when he camped outside of the hospital where Schiavo lay dying after her feeding tube was pulled. Every major personality on Fox News - Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, Neil Cavuto, John Gibson - called for her feeding tube to be reinserted, claiming that opposition to such a move was motivated entirely by non-religious, secular Americans and Democratic politicians whom Gibson and O'Reilly slammed for their opposition to Republican legislation being passed to move the case to federal courts, despite polls unanimously showing public support for the tube's removal to hover around 77% , with a majority of Republicans supporting it . The main controversy surrounding Fox's coverage of the event, however, centered around the refusal of the network to inform its viewers who one of the main players of the controversy was, namely Randall Terry, a notorious figure in conservative circles for his often violent acts, calls for the murder of abortion doctors and so-called activist judges . When a Republican talking points memo went into circulation , suggesting that Republicans could use the issue to appeal to their base, Fox News personalities immediately attacked the memo and claimed that liberals/Democrats had forged the memo . Later, after the true authors were revealed, Fox did not do a followup on it.

• Critics of the network contend that Fox specializes in "political sabotage" by putting up moderate to conservative "Democrats" as token liberals against more staunchly conservative Republicans. Examples of the so-called Fox News liberal include:
  • Alan Colmes - Co-host of Hannity & Colmes who is supposed to represent the political left opposite conservative Sean Hannity, but who admitted to USA Today that "I'm quite moderate."
  • Pat Caddell - Who has called the Democratic party a "confederacy of gangsters"
  • Susan Estrich - Known for her opposition to liberal Democrats and support for the Democratic Leadership Council, and who once told Sean Hannity that she was his "biggest liberal friend."
  • Zell Miller
  • Mort Kondracke
  • The network, additionally, has been criticized for instances in which it has stated false information to its viewers when identifying political guests. A recent example includes an interview on Hannity & Colmes in which two guests were brought on, one a Republican and the other a supposed Democrat, to debate an issue. However, the Democrat, former congressman Jimmy Hayes was, in fact, a former Republican politician who, along with neither of the hosts, acknowledged the misidentification of him as a Democrat.

• Another point of contention among Fox's critics is its perceived habit of ridiculing, in some cases viciously, liberal protesters. Examples include Bill O'Reilly referring to some protesters at the Republican National Convention in 2004 as "terrorists" (though he added, "most protesters are peaceful"), and Fox News online columnist Mike Straka referring to anti-war protesters at the September, 24 2005 march in Washington, D.C. as "jobless, anti-American, clueless, smelly, stupid traitors" and "protesters from hell"

• The Simpsons has made a number of criticisms and spoofs of Fox News (and the Fox network in general). In the episode Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington, Republican and Democrat congress candidates appear on Fox News. The show's announcer opens with 'Welcome to Fox News, your voice for evil'. The Republican candidate, Krusty the Clown is shown with a halo above his head, whilst the Democrat, John Armstrong, is depicted with devil's horns and is shown upside down, with a USSR flag in the background. There is also a 'news-ticker' at the bottom of the screen including, amongst others, stories such as "Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com" and "Coming up next: Hannity & Idiot"

• Iranian-Swedish newspaper commentator Behrang Kianzad wrote in the Expressen newspaper that "there are lies, damned lies and Fox News".

In June 2004, CEO Roger Ailes responded to some criticism with rebuttal in an online column for the Wall Street Journal , claiming that Fox's critics intentionally confuse opinion shows such as The O'Reilly Factor with regular news coverage. Ailes noted that Fox News has broken stories harmful to Republicans, stating "Fox News is the network that broke George W. Bush's DUI four days before the election" as an example. The story was broken by then-Fox affiliate WPXT in Portland, Maine. However, Carl Cameron of Fox News did work with WPXT in digging up the story.

References

1. Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist by Tim Groseclose, UCLA, December 14, 2005
2. Rupert Murdoch: Bigger than Kane by Andrew Walker, BBC News, July 31, 2002
3. 33 internal FOX editorial memos reviewed by MMFA reveal FOX News Channel's inner workings, Media Matters, July 14, 2004
4. Journalism 101 by Rich Tucker, CNSNews.com, November 07, 2003
5. Fox News, Source Watch
6. The Fox News Daily Memo: Is the Fix In? by Jay Rosen, Press Think, October 30, 2003
7. Fox On The Run by Oliver Burkeman, "The Guardian" November 25, 2002
8. Fox executive spoke five times with cousin Bush on Election Night, CNN.com, December 12, 2000
9. 2000 Official Presidential General Election Results
10. Cousin John's calls tipped election tally by Melinda Wittstock, The Guardian, November 19, 2000
11. Moore's Myths by John R. Lott Jr. and Brian Blase, New York Post, July 12, 2004
12. Press Going Too Easy on Bush by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Journalism.org
13. Fox's Slanted Sources; Conservatives, Republicans far outnumber others by Steve Rendall, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), July/August 2001
14. PIPA / Knowledge Networks Poll Misperceptions, the Media, and the Iraq War. Program on International Policy Attitudes October 2003
15. Political Science Quarterly (PDF), The Academy of Political Science, Winter 2003-2004
16. Crazy-Like-A-Fox News Viewer by Ann Coulter, Townhall.com, May 13, 2004
17. The O'Reilly Factor, February 22, 2006)
18. Best of the Web Today James Taranto. OpinionJournal, The Wall Street Journal. October 7, 2003.
19. Study shows TV news viewers have misperceptions about Iraq war Kay McFadden. The Seattle Times, October 20 2003.
20. Best of the Web Today James Taranto. OpinionJournal, The Wall Street Journal. May 11 2004.
21. Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist December 14, 2005
22. A Measure of Media Bias by Time Groseclose and Jeffery Milyo, UCLA
23. "Liberal Bias", Noch Einmal by Geoff Nunberg, Language Log blog, July 05, 2004
24. Groseclose and Milyo respond by Mark Liberman, Language Log Blog, August 02, 2004
25. Forge Ahead Telis Demos. The New Republic, September 15 2004.
26. The State of the News Media 2005: An Annual Report on American Journalism Content Analysis. Project on Excellence in Journalism, 2005
27. Trends 2005, Media Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 2005. (PDF file)
28. Fox Reporter on Florida Ballots: Burn Them or Shred Them?, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, December 20th, 2000
29. Fox Reporter on Florida Ballots:Burn Them or Shred Them?, YAAAMS.org
30. Liar Liar by John Gibson, FoxNews.com, January 29, 2004
31. Standards Cases - Upheld cases; The Big Story: My Word, Ofcom, January 28, 2004
32. Matthews, Gingrich, Hannity, others seize on new bin Laden tape to discredit war critics, Media Matters, January 20, 2006
33. Fox's Gibson on "golden opportunity" missed: If France had been selected for 2012 Olympics, terrorists would "blow up Paris, and who cares?", Media Matters, July 8, 2005
34. Waking to Reality; Bush Numbers Drop as Americans Reject Spin (editorial), Daily Camera, June 13, 2005
35. Cavuto defended suggestion that bin Laden was wearing Kerry campaign button in videotaped message, Media Matters, November 4, 2004
37. ‘Sexed Up’ Claims Knocked Down by Brit Hume, FoxNews.com, August 27, 2003
38. Franken Accuses Hume of "Obscene...Trivializing" of Troop Deaths, Free Republic, September 26, 2003
39. Alan Colmes' Bio, FoxNews.com, October 10, 2002
40. An Aggressive Conservative vs. a "Liberal to be Determined" by Steve Rendall, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, November/December 2003
41. An Aggressive Conservative vs. a "Liberal to be Determined" by Steve Rendall, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, November/December 2003
42. Trail Tales: What's That Face?, FoxNews.com, October 1, 2004
43. PollingReport.com
44. FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rebounds Slightly, Staff Changes 'Window Dressing' by Dana Blanton, FoxNews.com, May 04, 2006
45. Fox News' Rosen misrepresented Hotline poll to suggest majority of Americans may approve of Bush, Media Matters, March 1, 2006
46. Media reach to minimize Bush's poor poll results, Media Matters, March 1, 2006
47. FOX News Channel Statement on 'Outfoxed', FoxNews.com, July 13, 2004
48. Details About Employees Featured in 'Outfoxed', FoxNews.com, July 13, 2004
49. Fox News 'propaganda' says mogul, BBC News, January 27, 2005
50. The Most Biased Name in News by Seth Ackerman, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, July/August 2001
51. Fox News Watch panelist Gabler: Fox News "pumping" Christmas "war", Media Matters, December 5, 2005
52. FOX News doctors AP reports to mimic White House terminology, Media Matters, February 23, 2005
53. Fox follows Bush's lead, renames domestic spying program as "terrorist surveillance program", Media Matters, January 31, 2005
54. O'Reilly: The ACLU is "behind all abortion on demand, euthanasia, and coming soon perhaps, infanticide for impaired babies" , Media Matters, April 20, 2005
55. Conservatives quick to opine on Brokeback Mountain's "agenda," slow to actually see film, Media Matters, January 20, 2006
56. O'Reilly, Morris falsely painted Schiavo case as battle between religious, secular Americans, Media Matters, April 1, 2005
57. O'Reilly, Morris falsely painted Schiavo case as battle between religious, secular Americans, Media Matters, April 1, 2005
58. Only on Fox: John Gibson suggested that "Republicans stand for parents' right and life, and Democrats have sided for questionable husband and dying", Media Matters, March 23, 2005
59. John Gibson's and Fox News' description of Schiavo case: "Terri's Fight", Media Matters, March 29, 2005
60. Who is Randall Terry?, Media Matters, March 21, 2005
61. Mel Martinez, Misplaced Pages
62. After GOP source of Schiavo memo was confirmed, Hume, Kristol failed to acknowledge their roles in suggesting Democrats had authored it, Media Matters, April 8, 2005
63. Dissecting a right-wing smear: How conservatives used trumped-up evidence to blame Democrats for Schiavo memo, Media Matters, April 7, 2005
64. Who is Pat Caddell?, Media Matters, September 16, 2004
65. Hannity & Colmes substitute host Estrich: progressive standard-bearer?, Media Matters, June 9, 2004
66. FOX News contributor-to-be "Democrat" Zell Miller. Media Matters, December 16, 2004
67. Kondracke: "For all I know," Iraq insurgency "designed ... to help elect John Kerry", Media Matters, September 17, 2004
68. Fox falsely labeled former Rep. Hayes as Democrat; ignored party reversal, Media Matters, January 9, 2006
69. Small Minority of Protestors Can Cause Big Trouble by Bill O'Reilly, FoxNews.com, August 26, 2004
70. Fox & Friends' Kilmeade called G8 protesters "morons without jobs," insisted new Goldberg attack book not skewed, Media Matters, July 6, 2005
71. Grrr! Protesters From Hell by Mike Straka, FoxNews.com, September 27, 2005
72. Mike Straka Believes All Demonstrators are "Jobless", News Hounds, September 27, 2005
73. Swipes at Fox on The Simpsons by Brian Petersen (Maintained by Bruce Gomes), The Simpsons Archive
74. Expressen: Räven går i Rosengård Behrang Kianzad
75. Elite, Arrogant, Condescending; The L.A. Times' editor is terrified of Fox News. How pathetic. by Roger Ailes, Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2004

External links

• Official Site
• News Corporation - Fox's parent company.
• Museum of Broadcast Communications: Ailes, Roger
• News Hounds - Watchdog blog critical of Fox News Channel.
• Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism - The critical documentary's website.
• Outfoxed streaming Dutch VPRO documentary by Tegenlicht. Introduction, several seconds, in Dutch with story itself in English and Dutch subtitles; 50 min. Broadband internet needed.
• Guardian Unlimited special report: Fox - the naked truth, October 5, 2004, Zoe Williams, The Guardian
• The Fifth Estate: Sticks and Stones, CBC - Bob McKeown investigates Fox News for The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 45 min.
• "The Most Powerful Smell in News" - Origin of the "Faux News" logo.
• SimFaux - Faux News interactive TV news network simulation.

• Fox News Channel