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Never in the history of news has a reporter asked an elected official this question. Enjoy. infoMania is a half-hour... more

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New Age Crime Fighters

Anyone can solve crimes with boring clues. But if you're solving crimes with your mind, you must be on primetime TV. ... more

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Conservatives terrified of "the coming liberal storm"

Reagan Republicans,Fox News,Rush Limbaugh, and the like are burning up the web with dire predictions about the upcoming... more

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Dennis Miller makes Bill O' blush and flutter

Dennis Miller loses decorum, making a joke that renders O'Reilly speechless. Fuck FOX.

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Mad TV canceled

Defamer is reporting that MAD TV has been cancelled. A rumor began circulating today and the folks at Defamer made a call to an... more

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Fox Bites Pastor's Daughter and 2 Others

Evening youth programs at a South Carolina church were interrupted when a fox burst in and attacked three people. The bite... more

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Fox launches Friday sci-fi block

Fox has shaken up its midseason plans, establishing a Friday night sci-fi block and giving a new drama series an "American... more

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Rabid fox attacks jogger

A woman in Arizona was bitten by a rapid fox while she was out jogging. The fox bit her arm, and hung on to it for the mile that... more

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Fox cancels ‘King of the Hill’

It seems that the long-running animated comedy “King of the Hill" is over the hill at Fox, the media reported. The... more

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Fox News hires disgraced reporter Judith Miller

Miller, who has been a willing participant in the Bush administration’s quest to peddle lies to the American public, will fit right in.
Today, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reveals that Fox News has hired former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who will be an on-air analyst and write stories for Fox's website:

"She has a very impressive résumé," says Senior Vice President John Moody. "We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped. It's certainly something she's going to be associated with for all time, and there's not much anyone can do about that, but we want to make use of the tremendous expertise she brings on a lot of other issues. ... She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for."

Miller, however, had more problems than her stories not turning out "exactly" as she had "hoped." Miller has been a willing participant in the Bush administration's quest to peddle lies to the American public. She was a key player in pushing false intelligence that led the public into the Iraq war, and was central to the Valerie Plame leak scandal.

On Sept. 7, 2002, she and fellow New York Times reporter Michael Gordon reported that Iraq had "stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb." As proof, she cited unnamed "American intelligence experts" and unnamed "Bush administration officials." Subsequently, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld all pointed to Miller's story as justification for war. On April 22, 2003, she told PBS's Newshour that WMD had already been found in Iraq: "Well, I think they found something more than a 'smoking gun.'"

In 2005, Miller went to jail for refusing to testify in the Valerie Plame scandal and reveal her conversations with Scooter Libby. Miller was often criticized for becoming too close with her Bush administration sources. While she was in jail, for example, Libby wrote to her about how much he admired her and urged her to "Come back to work -- and life."
Miller, who has been a willing participant in the Bush administration’s quest to peddle lies to the American public, will... more

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28 days ago

Obama's Alters FOX Baseball Schedule

I am proud of Fox for being fair... for once! This is a really good idea. Glad Obama is breaking from the norm and doing it. ... more

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1 month ago

Fox News Most-Watched Channel On Cable In Prime Time Weekly Ratings

***I just don't get it...Why?....How?....WTF?.... Fox News Channel was the number one network in prime time on all of... more

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WGA to writers: Avoid Ozzy's new show

WGA leaders warned members Wednesday that working on the Osbourne clan's new comedy-variety show on Fox could put their membership with the guild on shaky ground.

At issue with the WGA is the show's producers, FremantleMedia North America, who according to the union offered a "sub-standard contract" asking that writers be treated as if they were working on "half-scripted" shows, which would greatly reduce their writing fees.

The writing on the show, which has a working title "The Osbournes: Loud and Dangerous," would traditionally be covered under the guild's basic agreement, used in the past for such shows as "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Laugh-In," according to WGA West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship. But Fremantle, according to the WGA, wanted to treat other portions of the show as "reality content," which would not be covered. Fremantle indicated it would be responsible for writing that part of the show. The WGA refused.

This isn't the first Fremantle show the WGA has had issues with.

While some shows produced by Fremantle have been covered by the guild contract, there are many others, including "American Idol" and "The Price Is Right," that are not covered by the WGA contract. Over the summer, the WGA went on a bus tour, dubbed the American Idol Truth Tour, which followed the show's auditions all over the U.S. and Puerto Rico, talking with the public about what they claim are substandard working conditions for writers and other behind-the-scenes employees.

"Now it is clear that Fremantle's intention is to bring their low-cost, nonunion business model into traditional genres -- first games shows, then comedy-variety," the letter states. "Soon, no WGA-covered writing will be safe from their aggressive undermining of our contract. We cannot allow this encroachment to continue."

Fremantle's David Shall, general counsel and executive vp of business operations, accused the WGA of continuing a campaign of "defamation and negative propaganda" against the company. The WGA, Shall said, was contacted in good faith by Fremantle with the hopes of hiring WGA writers for the "nontraditional" Osbourne show, which mixes variety with reality TV.

"Unfortunately, after only a few phone conversations with our representatives, the guild chose to end discussion, ordered its membership to not write for the show and implemented their usual mendacious strategy of feeding misleading and erroneous information to the press," Shall wrote. "We are disappointed that our effort to meet the guild halfway has been summarily rejected and, as such, we don't believe the guild's membership has been served."

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7e19cce243eb21aaf0efe4dc6a5a4bc4WGA leaders warned members Wednesday that working on the Osbourne clan's new comedy-variety show on Fox could put their... more