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From: Cliff on 24 Apr 2010 08:21
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201004230046
"Media Matters: Fox News' ever-expanding ethics nightmare"
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Another week, another handful of ethical scandals that should permanently sink
Fox's claim of being a legitimate news organization.

To recap: Last week, they gave us twin scandals starring Fox News stalwarts Bill
O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. "Furious" Fox News execs pulled Sean Hannity from his
planned show filming/fundraiser for the Cincinnati Tea Party after numerous news
veterans and watchdogs called foul.

O'Reilly spent last week reminding us of his willful ignorance by repeatedly
falsely asserting that "no one" on Fox promoted the falsehood that "jail time"
was a penalty for not buying insurance under the health care reform bill. He was
outrageously wrong.

Though Howard Kurtz reported that Fox plans to "keep a tighter rein on Hannity
and others" in the wake of the tea party scandal, we remain skeptical. Fox has a
long history of promising change in the wake of damaging ethics scandals, then
failing to deliver on those promises.

Indeed, despite cancelling Hannity's tea party event, Fox News has yet to cancel
a planned appearance by Fox Business host John Stossel at a paid event for a
nonprofit organization with very close ties to the energy industry. If history
is any indicator, Fox will hold its breath and hope that everyone forgets about
the Stossel fundraiser.

Of course, this being Fox News, Stossel's planned fundraiser wasn't even the
cable channel's biggest ethics scandal this week.

While a great deal of attention has deservedly been given to Rupert Murdoch's
statement that Fox News "shouldn't be promoting the tea party," the rest of his
comment -- "or any other party" -- is equally notable. So, how's Fox's
supposedly frowned-upon promotion of that "other party" -- the GOP -- going? In
a word: lucratively.

As we detailed last week, Fox News hosts and contributors have raised millions
of dollars for Republican candidates and causes using PACs, 527s, and 501(c)(4)
organizations.

In a follow-up report this week, we detailed the massive scope of Fox's
fundraising for the GOP:

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In recent years, at least twenty Fox News personalities have endorsed, raised
money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or causes, or against Democratic
candidates or causes, in more than 300 instances and in at least 49 states.
Republican parties and officials have routinely touted these personalities'
affiliations with Fox News to sell and promote their events.
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From: Chief Egalitarian on 24 Apr 2010 11:31


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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/air-america-bankruptcy-li_n_432048.html

Too bad for Err America indeed

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