Al Jazeera’s English-language news network has just hit Australian screens, but neither the PM nor his pals have been willing to make an appearance. Come on Kevin, you’ll do Rove, but not one of the world’s largest news networks?
Cable news networks
The war is over: Obama to appear on Fox News
The White House appears to have called a cease-fire in its war with Fox News, with news President Obama is scheduled to give an interview to the network next week.
Sesame Street vs. Fox News
Is Sesame Street anti-Fox? That’s what conservative pundits reckon, but as Mediaite point out, it’s more like the other way around, with Fox taking several stabs at the beloved kids’ show over the years.
Why is the media siding with Fox against Obama?
Fox News isn’t generally on great terms with the rest of the mainstream media, but since coming under attack from the White House, journalists are suddenly siding with their own — even if that means sticking up for the very people who routinely attack them.
Why is the White House throwing red meat to Fox’s angry white men?
The public don’t expect cable news networks to be unbiased or accurate, so the White House’s war on Fox News is futile, and just makes the station even more popular with its core conservative constituency, says Louis Menand.
White House vs. Fox News: why Obama can’t win
Fox News may have baited them, but Barack Obama — who has always tried to depict himself as above petty partisan squabbling — should never have allowed the White House to bite, writes David Carr.
White House vs. Fox News: Fox is “not really news”, says Axelrod and Emanuel
The White House war (or retaliation, depending on how you see it) on Fox News continues, with both White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declaring on Sunday talkshows that the network is “not really a news station” and its content is “not really news.”
Balloon Boy: everything that’s wrong with news
The relentless, farcical coverage of the “Balloon Boy” non-story by the likes of CNN and Sky shows everything that’s wrong with 24-hour news networks: too much airtime and nothing to fill it.
White House vs. Fox News: round two
The White House’s attacks on Fox News continue, with a spokesperson accusing the network of being an “arm of the Republican Party” and waging a “war” on Obama.
Fox: the most, and least, trusted name in news
In a new study about trust in news media, Americans named Fox News as the most trustworthy source of TV news. They also named it the least trustworthy. Confused? Mediaite explains.
Journalism 101: Learn everything from television
Being a journalist is easy. Just watch how cable news programs do it. Spruik dead people a lot, develop ‘ethics’ and then find a hilarious hook for every story.
The mind-expanding journalism of Al Jazeera
Arabic news channel Al Jazeera is riveting, says Robert Kaplan. Unlike the BBCs, CNNs and Foxes of the world, it provides a truly global perspective that transcends its biases.
How two corporations silenced a media fued
The on-air media feud between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and FOX’s Bill O’Reilly went on for years until a cease fire was called, but it wasn’t the two hosts who called a truce: it was a deal brokered between the stations’ parent companies, General Electric and News Corp.
Cable news reaches new lows with “beer summit” countdown
US cable news networks love a good gimmick — especially if it involves the shameless use of over-the-top graphics and animations — but MSNBC and CNN took the cake today, with both networks running live countdown clocks to Obama’s over-hyped “beer summit”.
Vanity Fair tortures intern with cable news hell
Thomas Kaplan is Vanity Fair’s summer intern. Instead of tackling the usual work-experience tasks of filing and coffee-making, he has been given a special brief: watch 24-hour cable news channels for four days straight. Oh, and they’re broadcasting the whole thing live.
US08: The conservatives just keep shouting louder
The shouting of teh conservatives is no coincidence or accident – it’s a way of pretending that the discourse is still conducted from the back of that flatbed outside the corner store, writes Guy Rundle from Austin, Texas.
The Atlantic / Thursday, 22 October 2009
So what if Fox News is conservative? asks Matthew Cooper. That’s no excuse for the White House to completely shun it: “If the White House can reach out to the Iranians and North Koreans, for gosh sakes, they can talk to Shepard Smith.”