Fox News Newspaper Ad Makes False Claims About Tea Party Coverage

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

In this morning's Washington Post, on page A9, the Fox News Channel took out a full-page ad, chest-thumping about its coverage of this past weekend's Tea Party protests in Washington, DC (which were heavily promoted by Fox News). "How did, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?" the text reads. It makes one wonder: Did Fox's marketing department bother to check on its competitors' coverage before they made these claims?

The facts are these: It took me all of 30 seconds to open up TVEyes and search CNN and MSNBC for Tea Party coverage on Saturday, September 12. Here are the facts. By my rough count, on September 12, CNN ran no less than 14 reports on the Tea Party rally, beginning at approximately 7:00 a.m. During the same time period, MSNBC offered viewers four reports on the Tea Parties. This is substantially less coverage than that of Fox News, obviously, but they did provide one of the event's most iconic images:



In the local DC market, the Tea Parties also received coverage. CBS reported on the story during the six-o'clock and eleven-o'clock news broadcasts, NBC did the same during its six-o'clock and seven-o'clock broadcasts and ABC covered the Tea Parties in all three evening broadcasts. No one missed the story.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/18/fox-news-newspaper-ad-mak_n_291494.html

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Fox News: We Deceive, You Believe.

[Cush]

1. Rick Sanchez just slammed the ad on CNN

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. If I were them I wouldn't even give it air time.

That's what the marketing people at FOX News are trying to do. This is all a ploy to get more coverage for their pet event.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. They paid to run an ad trashing the other cable news networks, and then lied in the ad

How like FOX News. Funny, how they weren't out there pointing out any lack of coverage regarding anti-war protesters marching on the WH back when shrub was in office. Fair and balanced, sure, whatever.

Their agenda is showing yet again

[edbermac]

4. Maybe DU should take up a collection for an counter ad.

About all the stories that FAUX Noise missed.

Every DU'ers gross income for a year ought to cover that ad space price.