The laughter could have rocked a city block when we at BNF heard that FOX was launching a business channel called FBN, an anagram of BNF!
Since we are among the precious few who have watched FOX business shows, from Neil Cavuto to the "Cost of Freedom," we know what a joke the so-called business coverage is. Melanie at the News Hounds has documented the coverage for years. Paris Hilton, strippers, sex diaries — all critical business functions.
Last week, they put a teaser video on their website. It was time to get to business and mock it with our own improved version.
Assault your weary eyes, have a good laugh and then enter the first ever BNF FBN contest.
PITCH US YOUR BEST FOX BUSINESS STORY
Like: Paris Hilton indicted for securities fraud
or: O.J. Simpson eats dinner at an expensive restaurant. Should he get a discount?
Weigh in in the comments below, and the winner gets a signed copy of the special "Outfoxed: FOX Attacks edition" coming in November.
Get ready to lose you shirt!
Hey Red State:
I work in the media, and I also work with fox affiliates–Media guy is right on! Where do you disagree??
His is a straw argument, to praphrase: ‘Fox News beats CNBC in the ratings, therefore it is more legitimate and liberal media is dead.’
First off, calling CNBC liberal simply because one of their shows is not rabidly right wing is an affront to intelligent televison viewers everywhere. You may be able to convince Rep’licans that the corporate ownership of American media still allows a fair sampling of public opinion, but the reality is that CNBC is no more liberal than General Electric (one of the world’s biggest defense contractors)’s ownership will allow. Most of this site’s readers already know this.
Second, implying that beating CNBC means Fox is best is like saying that the Toldeo Mudhens are America’s most popular baseball team because they beat the Rochester RedWings. This is a battle of little pishers, two after-thought cable TV channels, add-ons in the corporate portfolios of two of America’s biggest conservative corporate media conglomerates.
If you want to see how well Fox news actually does in national ratings, compare the Fox network news broadcasts that compete directly with the big three network news programs. That is a more direct comparison, but of course, Fox is not even competitive in most markets. You want to tell me that the Fox Morning News has a 50th of the Today Show’s share?
Finally, anyone who has ever been in media knows two things about cable TV ratings numbers: 1) the numbers fluctuate each rating period and taking a “snapshot” at any given moment in time does not reveal trends and cyclical patterns which always emerge. 2)A good media sales person can find the silver lining in any rating report. You can be 15th in the TV market, but the sales department will find some day part, some program, some demo, some quarter hour where they beat someone, and that’s when they tout: “We’re Number 1!! *
(*in non-Hispanic females age 55-64 Tuesday 3am-3:30am)
It’s all done with smoke, mirrors and creative interpretation so that corporate media can justify its advertising rates.
Finally, my biggest objection to the poster’s supposedly expert media opinion is that it is a not-so-veiled attempt to lead this discussion off on irrelevant tangents.
I imagine this “media guy” spent a year or two in small market radio (Colorado Springs, Moline, Bakersfield?) then Daddy got him an internship for a Republican congressman, and later he was hired by a rightwing DC react-tank. A DC Bigshot at the age of 27!! Waddya bet his job is to visit progressive Web sites and disrupt intelligent discourse?
I thought long and hard about replying to this jamoke because it takes up space on an otherwise useful site. I’ll refrain from taking his bait again, and I hope you all will, too.
We live in a state of corporate fascism, treating this planet as business in liquidation, exhausting its resources and destroying its environment. Man is but one species amongst billions of other species on this planet. No one gave man dominion on this planet except man himself. How egotistic has he become? Nature’s god is angry at us. Shame —Shame…
It all boils down to what Reagan did in 1988, bowing to pressure from the right, by abolishing the “Fairness Doctrine”. The fairness doctrine was the law of the land since 1932. This allowed channels like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to come to existence. Ninety two percent (92%) of radio talk show hosts now are right wingers. Public airwaves belong to the public and the fairness doctrine must be restored. Insist that the presidential candidates promise to restore the fairness doctrine and to bust the 5 media monopolies which control our thought process. Demand public finance of election.
It has been a personal citizen’s responsibility for me and likely many others that are watching and monitor Mainstream Media News today, that Americans have as never had before are tuned to the disinformation, bias, and what I would call “Open Sedition” in the highest degree of criminal actions, and Mainstream Media is getting away with it. As many others in this comment section have realized this corporate sector of the American economy has taken an abusive and in many cases a criminal political approach in delivery of information to the public.
Here the prime directive is to inform, educate and disseminate the truth through the public domain of the electromagnetic spectrum, cable, open air waves, telephone, and any mass communications that span the public domain. Were, to a large portion this is not happening deliberately.
America we are in a time of American history were you and I are going to be movers and shakers of the future on the Internet, but the Media Mongols will and are doing everything they can to prevent this, transparency is something the rich and powerful do not want. Please for all of you out there consider monitoring and documenting every possible cockeye hypocritical transfer of knowledge you can and bring it to the Internet. All these ideals will eventually draw the picture of deceit and corruption overwhelming the fraud and dollars stolen by Mainstream Media through tricks now in the art of Media Journalism to “Manipulate Context” against the American electorate.
This scourge and blatant abuse of the Public Media’s spectrum has been going on for decades. However, lately is rising to the crescendo, were hate radio Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and IMUS type individuals are contracted to fill the minds with distortion and manipulated context of ideals. If ever there was not a Conservative it is Rush Limbaugh, or an in Independent like IMUS who said he is not a bad person, yet Nixon said that too, look how those Republican goons served America.
Actually, take a hard look at what’s happening. A Journalist Robert Novak committed treason outing a CIA operative and is currently free to receive fees as a news analyst on Fox News. What is troubling here is his computer is probably loaded with all kinds of classified government documents from Cheney and his gang yet the prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald made no attempt to serve warrants to sort through these resources. Moreover, this attorney is highly and likely complicit in this whole crime. If one considers the details Patrick Fitzgerald needs to be challenge just as the attorney in the “Duke University Scandal”. Patrick Fitzgerald failed to prosecute Scooter Libby to the fullest extent; he should have raided everyone’s computer involved. That is most of Hate right wing radio, and most of Fox News. It’s obvious they are privy to classified material and use it to manipulate the political context for smear, and fraud purposes.
It is up to America to step up and take back our country. We have only ourselves to blame for the mess that this country is in by voting in extreme liberals and wimpy moderate Rupublicans.
How sick I am of hearing people complain about the cost of gas prices and yet say that they will vote for Clinton. We need to tell the Sierra Club to pound sand and start drilling our own oil.
Would you ever invite Hillary Clinton to dinner? I have been asking people this question. She is an elitist snob who would pick apart your cooking, home and apparel. This is much like Kerry and he lost. Say what you will about the Republicans, but none of the the running mates are snobs.
This websight looks like an advertisment for selling videos. They’re just as self serving as the people they speak out against.
This websight looks like an advertisment for selling videos. They’re just as self serving as the people they speak out against.
“This websight looks like an advertisment for selling videos. They're just as self serving as the people they speak out against.”
At least they don't advertise themselves as “real journalism, fair and balanced”.
Nice that they're “looking out for us”, but I didn't hear squat about the financial collapse until after it happened.
So much for their business “news”.
“This websight looks like an advertisment for selling videos. They're just as self serving as the people they speak out against.”
At least they don't advertise themselves as “real journalism, fair and balanced”.
Nice that they're “looking out for us”, but I didn't hear squat about the financial collapse until after it happened.
So much for their business “news”.