Fox adds a brunette to blonde weaponry against the President January 18, 2010 The Age There are so many blonde women on the Fox News Channel that I ploughed through the channel's website to get the exact number. Thirty-five. It means that of the 53 women who appear regularly on air for Fox, an unnaturally large proportion - two-thirds - are blonde or near-blonde. Even the non-blondes on Fox News are unmistakably Fox News, because almost all come with the same chiselled chin-lines, big hair, radioactive lip gloss and glowing conservatism. ... But this column is not about blondes, lip gloss or even glamour. It begins with the superficial because the superficial is important in this story, which is about the exercise of power. It is about the obliteration of the old lines - you could say the Botoxing - between news and opinion, objectivity and partisanship, celebrity and journalism, honesty and horse manure. ... Defeat in Massachusetts, after defeat and large swings against the Democrats in the two recent governor races, in Virginia and New Jersey, would foreshadow an electoral disaster for the Democrats if the economy does not turn around. In the November mid-term elections, they could lose their comfortable majorities in the House of Reps and even the Senate. This was inconceivable a year ago, when Obamamania gripped Washington. Fox News will do everything in its power to ensure this is exactly what happens. Since Obama became President, the network has become even more fervently pro-Republican. It got rid of its single Democrat anchor, Alan Colmes. It hired Glenn Beck, the closest thing US politics has to a TV evangelist, who preaches into the camera about America's descent into debt and socialism. It hired one of last year's Republican presidential contenders, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, as an anchor and commentator. Every day, in every way, before an ever-growing audience, Fox News beats the drum of ''socialism''. It is portraying Obama as a two-faced ideologue who is doing dirty deals to get his sweeping left-wing, big-government agenda through Congress, bankrupting the nation in the process. In this context, last week's announcement that Fox News had hired the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, was significant. She is the most glamorous, high-profile Republican woman in America. Did I mention chiselled chin-lines, big hair, radioactive lip gloss and glowing conservatism? ... In the process, Murdoch has also become the greatest patron of the Republican Party. Fox News, not the Republicans, is the leader of the opposition in America. Its most prominent and combative anchors, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, fomented the grassroots upswelling against the Obama Administration. The Republicans have been following Fox News, not the other way round. Palin was hired by Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News Channel, and the brilliant media impresario who created the network. He would not be thrilled by Palin's first week at Fox. She was vacuous, saying nothing, at length. She can only get better, and she has an adoring following among blue-collar white voters. ... And Palin is a brunette. Since I first checked the blonde quota on Foxy News in 2008, it has declined modestly from 73 per cent to 66 per cent. Perhaps this is Fox News Channel's idea of becoming more ''fair and balanced'', the phrase the network uses to define itself, without irony, despite the patent and increasing absurdity of the claim.
Of course. Everyone knows that there is no fair and balanced news station; they're either to the left or to the right.
James, how can you have a post without the pictures of them blondes? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ------------------ my sources tell me, if the democrat in Mass loses, then there will be some search lights on Fox. We shall see...
WHOA, people here think fox is fair and balanced still? I'd think after the incident where Shepard "the Frogface" Smith suggested Ralph Nader of being guilty of racism against Barack Obama, that station would have been discredited in the eyes of the intelligent people here. Either that, or the scandal where it was discovered that Fox News had edited photos of people they didn't like by yellowing their teeth and darkening their skin.
A following that votes, James! Is that what you or others are so paranoid about? ...LOL! Let's see ...from some of your terms, should I accuse you of "blue-collar-white-voter-phobia"? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Baron Max
Baron, Racism against white, poor, ignorant, people is not really racism, its the truth. The core source of Americas decline, past all the other problems like depleted oil reserves, outsourcing, government debt, is the rise of stupid lazy people, they are the reason for all this problems being problems and fox news is merely the outcome, a network for very intelligent conniving people who pray on the marching masses of morons, getting their viewership and adoration by feeding them back their own fear and stupidity.
Fox is the only one ever found to have had inacccurate reporting at one time or another? The best metric to determine which network is the most fair and balanced is how balanced the political leanings of its viewers.
I bet all of these females are wearing clothes. That's entirely unfair. To those who want to read their news in the nude, they should be free to do so. Let's make it truly fair and truly balanced.
No, just the only one to have so much of it and so blatantly one sided, perhaps you could say the national inquire is more inaccurate but at least they are not so politically biased. Well then Fox would be right out of the ring there.
It may appear that way from your perspective, but that in no way makes it a fact, just your opinion. No, Fox has the most balanced viewership, which logically means they have the most fair and balanced reporting. Thats not my opinion, its based on the facts.
first off democrat doesn't preclude one from being a right wing nut. she was only nominated given her being on fox i'd bet she votes republican. and really do you want to pin your hopes on some one who believes the human soul is a bunch of nuked space aliens thrown into a volcano?
um no this is a deminstratable fact. no this is an opinion one based on a bunch of incrediblely flawed and stupid assuptions. namely the balenced veiwership. your assuming everyone who watches fox does so for info. Your Opinion also ignores their are a lot of right wings dems who would eat up the right wing BS fox spouts and not a lot of lefty or moderate republicans who actually want good information rather than something to conform to their biases. I know plenty of lefties who watch fox to laugh at all the stupid shit they say. before you can say that matters you need to know why they are watching it.
Probably best not to become obsessed with a t.v channels slogan. We all become fair and balanced sooner or later.
Yes, the several left wing attack dogs have scoured every kibble 'n bit out there, from the one right wing, Fox, ever did and the slim pickings they found made headlines. The top dog always recieves the most scrutiny, especially when outnumbered 5 to 1 along party lines. The left hates it that fox news ratings kill CNN, MSNBC etc. and loves nothing more than a juicy story that paints Fox in a bad light. Your assuming the dems watch fox news for the comedy, I thought John Stewart monopolised that demographic of people:shrug: When does the left actually make time to watch "the news", or is it all just fun and games with no regard for the facts? I guess the later makes sense, considering the way opinions are so often stated as fact around here.
