FOX NEWS REVIEW TRACKING SHEET
Fox News Host / Guest / Caller : | Glenn Beck and Friends (2 co-hosts) |
Day of week / Time slot of show: | Saturday, 6:20 to 6:30 pm |
TV Channel or Radio station letters: | WHIO radio, 1290 AM |
Reviewer Name and city: | Bill Hirt, Dayton, OH |
Review day/month/year: | Feb 12, 2011 |
Violations of “Fair & Balanced” | Violations of “We Report – You Decide” | Violations of Journalism or “News” (un-supported statements) | Mis-representing History | Anti-Christian content (disrespect, insulting, badgering, content) | Exaggerations / distortions / lies (e.g. all the democrats are saying…) | Epithets (morons, pinheads) |
Checkmark for each occurence: | ||||||
Totals: 10/10 min | 10/10 min | 24 | 14 | 24 | 24 | 3 |
Examples / Quotes: | No news reported. Nothing but lies piled on one another, insinuating Obama is evil. (Seems the pot was calling the kettle black) | 8 different international cities where Obama was maybe born | Laughter, ridicule and insinuating tone for 10 solid minutes. Not one sentence said with respect of any kind. | Communist Crazy pathetic |
Notes: (include ego-trips and obvious prejudice or bias examples) This was a full 10 minutes of banter among the hosts with nothing but dripping insults, mocking laughter, sarcasm, dis-respect about president Obama, with a theme that he is inept, doesn’t know what he is doing, is illegally in office, wants to bring communism to transform our system of government to his Muslim roots. No factual statement was apparent the entire time. No news. Comments ranged from “.. I think he was born in Saskatchiwan…” to ..” you know he was abandoned by both his father and mother as a child…” . This is just what we want all Americans to listen to on their way home from Saturday evening church services. 10 minutes of horrible, insidious lies and diatribe . . . against the leader of the free world . . . without any factual basis. This supposedly is offered on Fox News as “news” but represents nothing but malicious trash on the airwaves. It masquerades as justification of conservative and Republican leadership in the US by pointing out the evils of the liberals and Democrats. For anyone who listens to any of the content of the show, however, the exact opposite is true. The evil and trashy content of the show has no place in our public media.
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