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Natali Del Conte schools Fox News [Clips]

newVideoPlayer("Del_Conti_schools_Fox_News.flv", 463, 387,""); Check out Natali Del Conte on Fox News. Del Conte not only makes her geeky solution to finding a hard-to-find Wii seem simple — "just Google Wii Tracker" — she also advises viewers to buy Wiis bundled with games and then just return the games. Sneaky sneak. [lien] [EN]

EA Calls Out Fox News Over Mass Effect Smear

Jeff Brown (left), VP of Communications for Electronic Arts, has requested that Fox News correct Monday’s disgraceful trashing of Mass Effect. As reported by Kotaku, Brown sent a letter to Teri Van Horn, producer of Fox News’ Live Desk program on which the Mass Effect hatchet job was orchestrated. From Brown’s letter: As the parent company of BioWare… EA would like you to set the record straight on a number of errors and misstatements which incorrectly characterize the story and character interactions in Mass Effect. Your headline above the televised story read: “New videogame shows full digital nudity and sex.” Fact: Mass Effect does not include explicit or frontal nudity. Love scenes in non-interactive sequences include side and profile shots . [lien] [EN]

EA calls for Fox News to correct Mass Effect story

Filed under: News, Mass Effect If you've been paying attention to any of the internets lately, you've probably heard about the recent (belated) controversy surrounding the sex scene in BioWare's Mass Effect. It was first lambasted by a little known writer for its "virtual orgasmic rape" among other things that aren't actually in the game. Said columnist later apologized for his errors (and he made more than a few) but the train kept a-rollin' and the next to attack was none other than Fox News. Fox aired a segment about the game, also making false claims about its actual contents, even running a headline that claimed "New videogame shows full digital nudity and sex." As the hordes of gamers who've actually watched the scene (NSFW) can tell you, Mass Effect does no such thing. [lien] [EN]

Fox News Infighting Over Obama: Awkward [Shouting Heads]

Fox News Channel had its own "Jane You Ignorant Slut" moment Friday when anchor Chris Wallace jumped onto Fox & Friends and said the hosts were being unfair to Barack Obama. The show had, for two hours, been replaying the Democratic presidential candidate's remarks about how his grandmother was a "typical white person," according to Wallace. The Fox News Sunday host thought that was maybe distracting people from timelier information, like the fact that Obama had just been endorsed by former presidential opponent Bill Richardson. The Fox & Friends people thanked Wallace vociferously for calling them on their shit on national television, since Fox is all about constructive, open conflict. Ha ha, just kidding, they gave him all kinds of nasty snide hell as seen in the scenes pasted together after the jump. [lien] [EN]

Barack Obama Visited The Fox News! [Cool Customers]

As promised, Barack Obama singlehandedly defeated a squadron of Fox News anchors at a game of pickup basketball and then he healed the lepers by touching them and sat down for a little chat with Chris Wallace on Sunday. The conversation was all very civilized until Wallace asked about his Muslim flag pin, which was given to him by the Weathermen back when they were Vietnam medics. Ha ha we kid! Even then President Cool maintained his legendary sangfroid. Selected Q&As after the jump. WALLACE: But when you see yourself among these [blue-collar] groups losing 70 percent to 30 percent, you aren't troubled by that? Don't you think to yourself maybe I need to have a different message or a new message? A different way of reaching out to them? OBAMA: Look, what we have done has been successful throughout. [lien] [EN]

Obama-Baiting: Fox News' 5 Worst Slurs [Race Relations]

Fox News has been accused of being a house organ of the Republican party, though that's not entirely accurate. It follows the mostly conservative "what can you do for ME" ideology of its owner, Rupert Murdoch, with a bit of the faux-populist anti-elite Nixonian media strategy of Roger Ailes, its initial guiding force. But lately, cracks and strains have become evident. The network doesn't particularly like John McCain, the Republican nominee. And Rupert Murdoch seems to have developed a little crush on Barack Obama, the Democrat. But the network's airheaded personalities just aren't comfortable embracing the black guy with the funny name. The cognitive dissonance leads, over and over again, to terribly offensive slurs followed by half-hearted apologies. Let us examine the worst of their crimes! 1. [lien] [EN]

Don't Let Fox News Bookers See Your Facebook, Liberals! [Overshare]

newVideoPlayer("/fnc_ivygatefacebook_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); The co-editors of Ivygate published an LA Times op-ed yesterday arguing that kids today are embarrassing and otherwise undermining themselves by oversharing online, but also arguing that social judgements about these gaffes are softening. Perhaps they spoke too soon: One of the editors, Jacob Savage found his appearance on the show America's Election Headquarters had been cancelled after allowing Fox News Channel producer Virginia Grace to "friend" him, thus unlocking a profile that listed him as "very liberal." He wasn't cancelled because the topic was no longer of interest — his op-ed coauthor still got to go on air — but because suddenly there was only room for one person. This could be because Savage is a lefty. [lien] [EN]

New MSNBC Chief Insults Fox News [Feuds]

Phil Griffin was only promoted to president of MSNBC last week, but he's already escalated the cable news network's feud with competitor Fox News Channel. That probably shouldn't be surprising given that Griffin is the chief patron of Keith Olbermann, the antagonist most detested by Fox. But Griffin's swipes at his competitor in the Kansas City Star are still startlingly raw: "You can't trust a word they say," Griffin said of Fox News. "THEY made the business decision to create an ideological network. We didn't. They were the ones that got in bed with the Bush Administration, so that most of the time, where did the Bush Administration officials come out and make their points? Fox News." Well, OK then! But isn't MSNBC adding a lot of left. [lien] [EN]

During a segment on education, Fox News misspells the word ‘education.’

During a segment this weekend, Fox News’ Brett Baier said that “the high price of gas may be costing your kids some of their education. We’ll explain here.” At the same time, though, the word education was misspelled on-screen as “eductaion.” Watch it: Spelling now joins geography on the list of subjects in which Fox News [...] [lien] [EN]

Fox News Blames Internet, Los Angeles for David Duchovny's Sex Addiction [Sex Files]

Most celebrities only announce a stint in rehab after undergoing a very public flame-out, so when David Duchovny offered last week (apropos of nothing) that he was being treated for sex addiction, gossip hounds went wild trying to figure out the reasons why. One columnist hot on the case is Fox News gadfly Roger Friedman, last seen trying to put the blame for the Harry Potter delay on star Daniel Radcliffe's magic wand. After a little digging, Friedman got to the bottom of some of the more scurrilous rumors: One of them was that he'd been caught having an affair with his tennis instructor (a woman) and that he was undergoing rehab to save his marriage. Alas, it isn't so, says a close friend [editor's note: "alas"?]. Duchovny did not check in because of an extramarital fling. [lien] [EN]

Fox News Reporter: Whose Idea It Was To Give Pennsylvania The Vote, Anyway? [VideUhOh]

newVideoPlayer("/PA_battleground.flv", 506, 423,""); Oh, MAN, I had to watch this like three times to believe it: Fox News sent a reporter to Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton today for a story on how Pennsylvania is a "battleground" state. It is not, of course, but you can prove anything on cable news with enough — which is to say, "scant" — anecdotal evidence. So the reporter went to a diner and asked for a show of hands as to who favored which candidate for president. "See, it's split!" he proclaimed when it was all done. What, your primary visual cortex? Click for the full awe-inspiringly-shameless-even-for-Fox clip. Read More: Palin, or Miss Teen South Carolina? , "If You Have The Guts To Invest In This Market Because Of Negative Headlines, Go Ahead, I'm Not Following You" . [lien] [EN]

Sad Fox News Uses 'Greenscreen' Tech From 19th Century [Horse Race]

newVideoPlayer("/foxgreenscreen.flv", 506, 423,""); CNN has, as Barack Obama might put it, reshaped election night for the 21st Century, with holographic reporters and John King's famous, magical touchscreen. Over at Fox News, meanwhile, outgoing anchor Brit Hume is still coming to terms with basic "greenscreen" tech, the well-established technique in which a correspondent stands in front of a monochromatic background that is filled in later with special video equipment. Presumably the network is waiting for the neighborhood tech kid to come over and make the clock stop blinking midnight on its "virtual reality" machines. Click the video at top to watch Fox's "gee whiz" moment. Read More: Fox News Accidentally Called Ohio, Does Rupert Murdoch Wish The Post Had Endorsed Obama?. [lien] [EN]

Taking one for the team - All-day Fox News live blog

After spending two years blogging about the election, often focusing on the media, I will be spending my election day taking one for the team. Come take a look at the epic Fox News Live blog over at Williamkwolfrum.com if you dare. I'd advise heading over there in about 15 hours, when I'll be completely and totally incoherent and foaming at the mouth. Update: My site has gone down momentarily, so I'll be updating here until it's back up: 4:36 p.m.: Malkin goes off on "Peggy the Moocher." Malkin is angry! 4:37 p.m.: Black Panthers!! 4:38 p.m.: There have been threats of race riots in Philadelphia! After the Phillies won there was violence! The Black Panthers are worrisome and Scary!! Malkin will always have a place on Fox News. 4:44 p.m.: Lyn Forester de Rothschild is back! She supported Hillary Clinton. [lien] [EN]

Fox News calls Iowa (Updated-Final)

[Guest post by DRJ] Fox News says Huckabee and Obama are the winners in Iowa. UPDATE 1 @ 6:45 PM PST - CNN agrees, as does NBC/MSNBC. UPDATE 2 @ 6:50 PM PST - Here’s something interesting from MSNBC: “In interviews as they entered the caucuses, more than half of all the Republicans said they were either born-again or evangelical Christians, and they liked Huckabee more than any of his rivals. Romney led handily among the balance of the Iowa Republican voters, according to the survey. About half the Democratic caucus-goers said a candidate’s ability to bring about needed change was the most important factor as they made up their minds, according to voters surveyed by The Associated Press and the television networks as they entered the caucuses. Change was Obama’s calling card in the arduous campaign for Iowa’s backing. [lien] [EN]

Fox News: populism’s win is America’s loss.

During a discussion today on the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses, Fox News’s Neil Cavuto ran a chyron asking: “Did populism win and America lose in Iowa?” UPDATE: Newshounds notes that Neil Cavuto ignored the fact that today was a terrible day on Wall Street. [lien] [EN]

Fox News edits Ron Paul out of AP story.

Fox News recently excluded anti-war conservative Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) from its New Hampshire presidential debate. Libertarian Underground reports that Fox has now edited out Ron Paul’s name from an AP story posted on its website: From the International Herald Tribune: From Fox News: (HT: Newshounds) [lien] [EN]

Fox News Will Not Correct Their Story About You [Failed Corrections]

Yesterday, Fox News reported, repeatedly, that former Democratic consultant and current CNN talking head Paul Begala was going to join the Hillary Clinton campaign. He wasn't going to do this thing,... [lien] [EN]

Scaredy Cats at Fox News Appease Paul [Myrtle Beach Debate]

Stab me stab me stab me, there’s another Fox News debate tonight — this time in fertile Myrtle Beach, SC. And after suffering hilarious Paultard riots, chases and pickup fights, Fox has... [lien] [EN]

Fox News, the most trusted name in television

Poll shows it is more trusted than the No. 2 and No. 3 combined. Sacred Heart University in Connecticut polled 800 people in the 50 states and found: “The most trusted national TV news organizations, for accurate reporting, in declining order included: Fox News (27.0%), CNN (14.6%), and NBC News (10.90%). These were followed by ABC News (7.0%), local news (6.9%), CBS News (6.8%) MSNBC (4.0%), PBS News (3.0%), CNBC (0.6%) and CBN (0.5%).” The pollsters noted that just 4 years earlier, CNN was the most trusted at 23.8% followed by Fox at 14.8%. This information was at the bottom of the press release, which was headlined: “Americans slam news media on believability.” Oh, Americans know Fox News is conservative. [lien] [EN]