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Wed Jun 19, 2013, 06:27 PM Jun 2013

Stay classy, Faux.

Apparently reporting on Teabaggers throwing a tantrum is more important than the President's speech.

Fox News broke from other cable networks when it cut away from President Obama's speech in Berlin to host a panel previewing planned tea party protests in Washington, D.C.

Fifty years after President Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech on the front line of the Cold War, President Obama kicked off a series of German events celebrating the 1963 address with a speech of his own. MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News each covered the speech live. But while MSNBC and CNN aired Obama's remarks to their conclusion, Fox cut away early in order to discuss tea party protests planned in Washington, D.C. the same day.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/19/fox-cuts-away-from-obamas-berlin-speech-to-cove/194520

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Stay classy, Faux. (Original Post) Archae Jun 2013 OP
Why would Fox News stay on the presidents speech? Half-Century Man Jun 2013 #1

Half-Century Man

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1. Why would Fox News stay on the presidents speech?
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 06:44 PM
Jun 2013

That was actual news. And as actual news, it falls outside of the Fox News Network's jurisdiction.

The coverage of staged propaganda events by the TEA party were ordered by the higher ups to distract Fox's audience from actual news. The national infomercial that Fox news has always been is, if nothing else, consistent.

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