News Hounds Media Digest #198

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News Hounds Media Digest #198
7/14/08 to 7/20/08


Brave New Films wants you to help Send Karl Rove to Jail.


Melanie: Fox builds a segment based on a lie and gets caught, on-air no less (finally).

http://tinyurl.com/6oaz6a

Melanie: In this scratch-your-head segment, Fox claims offshore drilling could actually HELP the environment.

http://tinyurl.com/6yj448

Deborah:  Bill O'Reilly exposed his warped 1950s view of women and birth control.
http://tinyurl.com/5ph5ca

Deborah:  Bill O'Reilly and Monica Crowley speculate about Michelle Obama's "diminished" role in her husband's campaign.
http://tinyurl.com/5cbmg8

Chris:  The FOX Friends are busily tearing down Barack Obama's  fact-finding mission in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as a photo op and rally, and complaining  about the mainstream media coverage. 
http://tinyurl.com/5r2r58
http://tinyurl.com/6pflcr

Chris:  The Obama camp's characterization of the New Yorker magazine cover as "offensive and tasteless" was met with - what else? - derision on FOX, where it was suggested he should stop being so thin-skinned and laugh it off.  The media's alleged fear of teasing him because of his quick rebuttals is revealed to be another falsehood from FOX Friends as reader dd lists jokes made at his expense just in the past week.
http://tinyurl.com/62ozk4

Priscilla: On Friday night's (July 18th) Grapevine, there was yet another segment that purported to show that the world's most renowned scientists are wrong about global warming.
http://tinyurl.com/5clu24

Priscilla: Sean Hannity on American Racism
http://tinyurl.com/558nje

Outrageous Quote w/e 7/12/08:  Lanny Davis' "Fox has made the right decision because Democrats are looking at Fox as a fair and balanced network. Certainly the way they covered the presidential campaign on the Democratic side was one of the reasons that caused me to want to be here at Fox and and having Howard along side, ah, with people like Karl Rove, I think raises the level of Fox's dialogue."   Vote for this week's at
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/07/21/outrageous_quote_of_the_week_71908.php


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