FOX NEWS popularity and FOX NEWS trends

Samuel Wurzelbacher, commonly known as "Joe the Plumber," went after Joe Biden on Thursday, calling the vice president's comments on Mitt Romney's private equity record "asinine" and "elitist.""It was insulting," Wurzelbacher said during an interview with Fox News. "For Joe Biden to sit there and say who can be president, who's qualified and who isn't, is just asinine, especially with the track...

Why does MSNBC dedicate coverage to the right-wing conspiracies that it claims have no place in the national conversation?  The New Yorker's Alex Koppelman hits the nail on the head: Anger is a great motivator. Political campaigns rake in the money when their supporters are enraged at their opponents; media outlets that lean to one side or the other often do best when their audience is lookin...

Fox News viewers are less informed than those who watch other programmes, or no TV news at all, research has found.

Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera has made more troubling remarks about Trayvon Martin's appearance again, claiming that the teen's clothing was responsible for his death.

Guests on the Sunday political talk shows include Rep. Paul Ryan to discuss the budget debate on Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will face off on ABC’s This Week. Other topics across the shows include the NATO Summit in Chicago and the G-8 Summit at Camp David. Read full article >>

Velcroman1 writes, quoting Fox News: "For sale: manufacturing and office facility with 411,618 square feet, state of the art electrical, air, and power distribution systems — and a troubled past. As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Solyndra is reportedly very close to landing a buyer for its mammoth, high-tech production plant in Fremont, Calif. The listing agent recently gave Fox News a tou...

After President Barack Obama made his tepid endorsement of same-sex marriage last week, the pundits, from Fox News all the way to The New York Times, quickly pivoted from asking why to whether it will hurt him politically.

Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla says convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine is endorsing him in this year's mayoral race. Is this a plus or a minus in the race for mayor? Padilla thinks the endorsement is important. "When you have...

Who would have thought, as 2012 dawned, that a piece of cotton could become so political? First, of course, there was the shock of the Trayvon…

Washington Post story cites witnesses who said Romney bullied a student who was presumed to be gay while at prep schoolMitt Romney issued an apology over his actions at high school after it was revealed that during his senior year he had played a leading role in a bullying incident against a fellow-pupil who was assumed to be gay.After his campaign officials had insisted the presumptive Republi...

Fox is now what McCarthy would have been if he had access to the Internet and 24-hour cable TV. Odd stories like the birther movement only exist because Fox irresponsibly fans the flames, continuing to report on the discredited issue.

Rechts, das ist Fox News. Links, das ist MSNBC. Die Mitte, das ist das einst berühmte CNN. Da hilft es nur wenig, aggressiv auf Unabhängigkeit zu setzen. mehr...

“Saturday Night Live” opted to scrap a sketch mocking President Obama and replaced it with a skit taking on Fox News this weekend, according to a report from the Daily Caller.

Isn't it obvious? We gave women the right to vote. As Raw Story reports: Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist that's appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America's greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in "the ...

PESHAWAR – The US efforts to talk peace with insurgents in Afghanistan mean Washington can no longer expect Pakistan to attack all the militant factions on its side of the border, some of whom Islamabad is also reaching out to, reported Fox News on Tuesday quoting Corps Commander Peshawar Lt General Khalid Rabbani in an interview with an American news agency. In a sign of the bad blood ...

George Brannon of Mesquite, Texas has posted a warning to would-be thieves contemplating taking another one of his pieces of "right wing yard art," which include an upside-down US flag with boot marks and Obama's crossed-out face replacing the field of stars. Watch video at Fox News affiliate (Via Arbroath)

Joe Muto, better known as "The Fox Mole," has landed a six-figure book deal. He will publish the memoir, tentatively titled "An Atheist in the Fox Hole," with Dutton. Muto rose to fame in April when he began blogging anonymously for the website Gawker from inside the Fox newsroom as the "Fox Mole." Less than two days went by before his superiors had figured out that Muto was behind the Mole, an...

La filosofía híper partidista de los canales de noticias por cable estadounidenses, que se ha agudizado en años recientes, no ha sido beneficiosa para el canal de noticias original. En el horario de máxima audiencia, MSNBC tiene dos veces más televidentes que CNN y Fox News tiene cuatro veces más.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Several of Mike Wallace's former colleagues and his son, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, are gathering to pay tribute to the former fixture of the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes."...

We have to give him a lot of credit here! He gave Jimmy Kimmel a pretty solid run for his money! Although the late night talk show host was on hand at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner to provide some HIGHlarious observations and commentary regarding the recent Secret Service Prostitution scandal, Fox News, and so forth, [...]

FOX news reports that US has stationed a number of its most premier fighter in UAE; US Air Force states the move is routine.

Greta Van Susteren from Fox News Channel could have invited anyone she wanted to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but she chose Lindsay Lohan because she's rooting for her.Greta has been mum on her dinner guest, but she told Harvey (because…

Wurftaubenschießen ist olympische Disziplin. Fuchsjagd dagegen verboten. Entsprechend mutig sind Londons Stadtfüchse geworden - und stören ausgerechnet den Weltcup der Sportschützen.

The provocateur filmmaker now believes that the News Corp.-owned cable channel could soon be caught up in something far more nefarious than simple ideological sins.The provocateur filmmaker now believes that the News Corp.-owned cable channel could soon be caught up in something far more nefarious than simple ideological sins.

How did we get to the point where Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum could complain about the bias of Fox News and National Review?

Bislang war der Skandal um die Abhörpraktiken der Murdoch-Medien auf Großbritannien begrenzt. Doch nun droht ein Londoner Anwalt dem Weltkonzern auch in den USA mit Klage - hier gehören unter anderem das Wall Street Journal und Fox News zum Imperium. Deren Einfluss ist vielen schon länger nicht geheuer.

Fox News has sent a legal threat to Gawker for its "Fox Mole" columns, which dished dirt on the network, penned by a man claiming to have been a Fox associate producer.

He says the Murdoch/Ailes network is in the tank for Romney and biased against him – and he’s basically right

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fox News on Wednesday said it was firing an employee who had anonymously posted videos and comments about behind-the-scenes workdays at the television network, leading media website Gawker to dub him the "mole."

According to Fox News, WIPO  “shipped sophisticated computer servers to the government of North Korea, despite ongoing U.N. sanctions against the regime for its efforts to build nuclear weapons.” WIPO is the number one  provider of UDRP arbitration services handling more cases than any other provider in the world. Despite that WIPO is an agency of the U.N. empowered to deal with Intellectual P...

Geraldo Rivera doesn't do things in halves. Except, it seems, when it comes to publicly admitting wrongdoing. Last week, the attention-seeking Fox News pundit came under fire from...

Ai Weiwei sieht China in der "Welt" auf dem Weg zur Demokratie - dank Internet. Die "NZZ" berichtet: Fox News mäßigt sich. In der "Funkkorrespondenz" wendet sich der Verleger Jakob Augstein gegen Leistungsschutzrechte. In der "SZ" bekennt sich Dirigent Valery Gergiev zum Putinismus.

Ein trauriges Ostern dürfte es dieses Jahr für die Kinder in Colorado Springs im US-Bundesstaat Colorado werden. Denn wie "Fox News" berichtet, hat die Stadt das alljährliche Ostereiersuchen heuer abgesagt. Der Grund: Im vergangenen Jahr waren nicht die Kinder, sondern die Eltern ins Eier-Jagdfieber gefallen und hatten dabei über die Stänge geschlagen.

El exgobernador de Massachusetts Mitt Romney es el ganador en las primarias republicanas celebradas hoy en Illinois, según los pronósticos de las cadenas CNN, NBC y Fox News basados en el voto escrutado. Con el 12 por ciento del voto escrutado, Romney recibe el 56 por ciento de los votos; el exsenador de Pensilvania Rick Santorum, el 27 por ciento; el congresista Ron Paul, el 10%; y el expresid...

Glenn Beck still rails against his usual enemies, from the "hardcore socialist left" to "extreme Islam." Now there is a new target: mainstream television.

A Fox News clip showing a reporter sleeping on air has been circling the Internet.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum won the Republican presidential primary in Oklahoma on Tuesday, Fox News projected shortly after polls closed.

Here's a fun little exercise.  Let's say that the vice-president of a political consulting firm went on MSNBC or Fox News with the argument that no matter what the U.S. government said, Osama bin Laden wasn't actually buried at sea.  No, this wouldn't be a claim that Osama had returned as a zombie.  The VP would simply argue that based on past standard operating procedures and the desire of so...

$10 a month to get Comedy Central and ESPN streaming live on my iPhone? Woot! But I have to subscribe to Fox News and MTV to get them? Dammit. More »

IF RICK SANTORUM were right about what’s going on in America, his angry lectures and reproofs would be comprehensible. “Rick understands that our freedom to practice our faith is not just under attack through the redefinition of marriage, but in nearly every facet of the popular culture,” his campaign Web site explains. Mr. Santorum “almost threw up” when he read John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 s...

After ten months of ruthless culling, has the Republican “base”—an excitable, overlapping assortment of Fox News friends, Limbaugh dittoheads, Tea Party animals, war whoopers, nativists, Christianist fundamentalists, à la carte Catholics (anti-abortion, yes; anti-torture, no), anti-Rooseveltians (Franklin and Theodore), global-warming denialists, post . . .

In the city for two appearances on Fox News, the former vice-presidential candidate and self ascribed 'Mama Grizzly' opted for minimal layering and open toe shows.

The channel would combine resources from ABC News and Univision's news division to take on established players like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.

„Die Muppets“ enthielten linkes Gedankengut und seien daher gefährlich, behauptete der US-Sender Fox News. Nun schlugen Kermit und Miss Piggy zurück.Foto: dpaMehr zum ThemaZigarren & Millionen - Darum lieben alle Rudi AssauerBILD.de-Voting - Fans sicher: Dortmund wird Meister!Syrien-Krise - Cyber-Krieg gegen Assad?Prestigio PMP5080B im Test - Großes Tablet, kleiner PreisCosta Concordia - T...

U.S. military trainers will be invited back into Pakistan "as early as April or May," but the nation has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country, Fox News reported Saturday. Relations between the two nations have been at an all-time low since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an inadvertent aerial attack by NATO in November. The Pakistani parliament is reviewing the nature of its...

A US Marine helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, with casualties expected, FOX News Channel reported, citing military sources.

Washington (dpa) - Über den Zaun des Weißen Hauses ist am Abend offensichtlich von einem Demonstranten mindestens eine Rauchbombe geworfen worden. Das berichtet der US-Fernsehsender Fox News unter Be...

ISLAMABAD – The US gave money to a Pakistani Muslim group that organised anti-Taliban rallies, but which later demonstrated in support of an extremist who killed a leading liberal politician, the US Embassy said Wednesday. The Fox News quoting American news agency The Associated Press reported that the grant highlights the difficulties facing Washington as it seeks partners to support ...

ISLAMABAD – The US gave money to a Pakistani Muslim group that organised anti-Taliban rallies, but which later demonstrated in support of an extremist who killed a leading liberal politician, the US Embassy said Wednesday. The Fox News quoting American news agency The Associated Press reported that the grant highlights the difficulties facing Washington as it seeks partners to support ...

Seconds before the correspondent Carl Cameron came on Fox News for a live report from Mitt Romney's victory party in Manchester, New Hampshire, last night, he spotted two of the candidate's top advisers dancing to the music being piped into the room.

Die grundidee der usa ist, dass es ein land ist, in dem man seine religion frei ohne zwang ausüben kann. Weihnachten wurde von der politik (weiß nicht ob congress oder senat oder beide) nach den gründungsjahren jahrelang komplett ignoriert um zu zeigen, dass man da nicht so christlich versteift drauf ist. Heute ist es ähnlich und man will so höflich/politisch korrekt/etc, wie das in den usa nun...

Lorsque Fox News avait voulu disqualifier John Kerry lors de l'élection de 2004, la chaine conservatrice répétait en boucle qu'il était Français (avec les conservateurs, l'histoire se répète toujours: maintenant c'est l'acte de naissance de Barack Obama. On connaît la...

Seven candidates have taken the stage in Sioux City, Iowa, for the final debate before the Jan. 3 caucuses.

Mitt Romney scrambled Monday to recover from a debate misstep in which he challenged a fellow White House contender to a US$10,000 bet, telling U.S. television that the sum had been merely rhetorical.

It is generally believed that many Americans have poor knowledge of geography. This theory has found another proof the other day. Fox News showed the footage of the "revolution in Moscow." The footage, which the channel aired, showed typical revolutionary events with angered protesters, armed police officers, tear gas and Molotov cocktails

NEW YORK (AP) -- Political consultant Dick Morris recently disclosed on Fox News Channel that some of the Republican presidential candidates that he talks about on the air have paid for advertisements in a newsletter he sends out to subscribers....

Fox News may dominate the British view of American news organizations, but PBS is highlighting its own style.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Italian scientist Andrea Rossi has spent the past year giving demonstrations of a device that he claims can generate large amounts of energy due to a little-understood nuclear process. His latest demonstration, performed on October 28th, has attracted some of the most mainstream media attention yet, with coverage by outlets including Fox News, Forbes, and MSNBC, among others. B...

Google has opened up its Google+ social network to businesses and other organisation with the launch of Pages. The feature was launched with profiles for a range of international organisations including Angry Birds, Barcelona Football Club, Fox News, HM and Toyota.

In a new Rolling Stone story Tim Dickinson tells how onetime Nixon henchman Roger Ailes built Fox News into the most profitable propaganda machine in history A master of dirty tricks Ailes has amassed enormous power in the Republican Party – and the country – by pioneering a new form...