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More FOX Business Agitprop Against Iran

2008-07-24T08:26:26Z

Another in a series of videos showing FOX Business Network is political propaganda masquerading as "business news." During the June 20, 2008 edition of America's Nightly Scoreboard, perpetually peppy host David Asman rubber-stamped everything former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton had to say about the recent Israeli war games and their effect on the markets. Asman didn't seem to mind that Bolton was making claims about Iranian weapons and attacks in Iraq that are not true. Isn't it time that we demanded to see the stock portfolios of some of the players in this most recent build-up to yet another bogus war?

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SHOCKING! FOX "Business" Edits Bad Reviews to Make Them Positive

2008-07-09T11:42:42Z

I was shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that the honest, upstanding folks at the FOX “Business” Network would take someone’s words out of context to completely change and distort their meaning. After all, that’s usually left to FOX Noise where they continually mangle the words of John Murtha on Haditha, Barack Obama on air strikes, and Hillary Clinton on everything else. Imagine my surprise to learn that FBN is doing the same thing! I nearly swooned!

See, the problem is that FBN sucks. If you’ve ever watched more than 30 seconds of any Noise business show, this should come as no surprise (it certainly didn’t to me). No one is giving FBN good reviews. So what does FOX or Bush or republicans do when reality contradicts what they want to be true? LIE!

That’s why FBN used this “positive” quote from the Toronto Globe and Mail in a promo:

They set out to change the face of financial news…and they darn well did.

When the real quote is:

They set out to change the face of financial news…and they darn well did. Now, please change it back….Perhaps, in time, Fox Business will find the secret formula that makes people want to drink up the financial minutia needed to fill a day's coverage on a business TV channel. But judging by yesterday's debut performance, they're not there yet.

I guess FBN didn’t want to use Variety’s review:

Based on a sampling during the net’s premiere week, the result is a parade of Stepford anchors, reporters and pundits…Neil Cavuto — the signature primetime voice — practically crawled into GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s lap to be read a no-newtaxes bedtime story. He’s followed nightly by preening gasbag David Asman, another Fox News transplant.

Or this one from Reuters:

"There are teething problems," said independent network news analyst Andrew Tyndall, who added that he found it "hard to watch." He said he found the tone of some of the reports disturbing: "They appear to have a rooting interest in prices going up. It's normally not a good sign of journalism when you're rooting for an outcome."

FBN, the "hard to watch" channel of Stepford anchors, preening gasbags, and "disturbing" journalism. WATCH IT!

h/t Crooks&Liars

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Asman Shills For Bush And War

2008-07-09T19:33:06Z

You've got to really respect the Fox News Channel for the diversity of opinion on their network. That is if you're a conservative because there is little to no diversity of opinion there. This clip proves it.

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The Best of the Cost of Freedom 9/16/2006

2008-07-09T14:29:02Z

Don't know how to invest? I make it easy! Here's the absolute best of the Fox News so-called "business block." It looks like the right-wing political index is up so it's time to buy, IMHO. But watch and you make up your own mind!

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