Fox News

Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel possessed by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at one thousand two hundred eleven Avenue of the Americas, Fresh York City, Fresh York.

Most Observed, Most Trusted

former “Fair and Balanced”

Channel twenty one (Analog)

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The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. [1] It launched on October 7, 1996, [Two] to seventeen million cable subscribers. [Three] Fox News grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become a superior cable news network in the United States. [Four] Rupert Murdoch is the current chairman and acting CEO of Fox News. [Five] [6]

Fox News Channel has been accused of biased reporting, perpetuating conspiracy theories, [7] [8] [9] and promoting the Republican Party. [Ten] [11] [12] Critics have cited the channel as detrimental to the integrity of news overall. [13] [14] Fox News employees have responded that news reporting operates independently of its opinion and commentary programming, and have denied bias in news reporting. [15] The network has also been accused of permitting sexual harassment and racial discrimination by on-air hosts, executives, and employees, paying out millions of dollars in legal settlements. [16] [17] [Legal] [Nineteen] [20] The company is presently under federal investigation for its harassment settlements and other alleged misconduct. [21] [22]

As of February 2015, approximately 94,700,000 US households (81.4% of cable, satellite & telco customers) receive the Fox News Channel. [23]

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In May 1985, Australian publisher Rupert Murdoch announced that he and American industrialist and philanthropist Marvin Davis intended to develop “a network of independent stations as a fourth marketing force” to challenge directly with CBS, NBC, and ABC through the purchase of six television stations possessed by Metromedia. [24] In July 1985, 20th Century Fox announced that Murdoch had ended his purchase of fifty percent of Fox Filmed Entertainment, the parent company of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. [25] A year later, 20th Century Fox earned $Five.6 million in its fiscal third period ended May 31, 1986, in contrast to a loss of $55.8 million in the third period of the previous year. [26]

Prior to founding FNC, Murdoch had gained practice in the 24-hour news business when News Corporation’s BSkyB subsidiary began Europe’s very first 24-hour news channel (Sky News) in the United Kingdom in 1989. [27] With the success of his fourth network efforts in the United States, [28] [29] practice gained from Sky News and the turnaround of 20th Century Fox, Murdoch announced on January 31, 1996, that News Corp. would launch a 24-hour news channel on cable and satellite systems in the United States as part of a News Corp. “worldwide platform” for Fox programming: “The appetite for news – particularly news that explains to people how it affects them – is expanding enormously”. [30]

In February 1996, after former U.S. Republican Party political strategist and NBC executive [31] Roger Ailes left cable television channel America’s Talking (now MSNBC), Murdoch asked him to begin Fox News Channel. Ailes demanded five months of 14-hour workdays and several weeks of rehearsal shows before its launch on October 7, 1996. [32]

At its debut seventeen million households were able to observe FNC; [Trio] however, it was absent from the media markets of Fresh York City and Los Angeles. Rolling news coverage during the day consisted of 20-minute single-topic shows such as Fox on Crime or Fox on Politics, surrounded by news headlines. Interviews featured facts at the bottom of the screen about the topic or the guest. The flagship newscast at the time was The Schneider Report, with Mike Schneider’s fast-paced delivery of the news. During the evening, Fox featured opinion shows: The O’Reilly Report (now The O’Reilly Factor), The Crier Report (hosted by Catherine Crier) and Hannity & Colmes.

From the beginning, FNC has placed strong emphasis on visual presentation. Graphics were designed to be colorful and attention-getting; this helped the viewer to capture the main points of what was being said, even if they could not hear the host (with on-screen text summarizing the position of the interviewer or speaker, and “bullet points” when a host was delivering commentary). Fox News also created the “Fox News Alert,” which interrupted its regular programming when a violating news story occurred.

To accelerate its adoption by cable providers, Fox News paid systems up to $11 per subscriber to distribute the channel. [33] This contrasted with the normal practice, in which cable operators paid stations carriage fees for programming. When Time Warner bought Ted Turner’s Turner Broadcasting System, a federal antitrust consent decree required Time Warner to carry a 2nd all-news channel in addition to its own CNN on its cable systems. Time Warner selected MSNBC as the secondary news channel, not Fox News. Fox News claimed that this violated an agreement (to carry Fox News). Citing its agreement to keep its U.S. headquarters and a large studio in Fresh York City, News Corporation enlisted the help of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s administration to pressure Time Warner Cable (one of the city’s two cable providers) to transmit Fox News on a city-owned channel. [34] City officials threatened to take activity affecting Time Warner’s cable franchises in the city. [35]

During the September 11, two thousand one attacks, Fox News was the very first news organization to run a news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day. The ticker has remained, informing viewers about extra news which reporters may not mention on-screen and repeating news mentioned during a broadcast; it has proven popular with viewers. [36]

FNC maintains an archive of most of its programs. This archive also includes Fox Movietone newsreels. Licensing for the Fox News archive is treated by ITN Source, the archiving division of ITN. [37]

Television Edit

FNC presents a multitude of programming, with up to fifteen hours of live broadcasting per day in addition to programming and content for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Most programs are broadcast from Fox News headquarters in Fresh York City (at one thousand two hundred eleven Avenue of the Americas), in its streetside studio on Sixth Avenue in the west wing of Rockefeller Center, sharing its headquarters with sister channel Fox Business Network. Fox News Channel has eight studios at its Fresh York City headquarters that are used for its and Fox Business’ programming: Studio B (used for Fox Business programming), Studio D (which has an area for studio audiences; and is used by Outnumbered), Studio E (used for Fox & Friends, Happening Now, Your World with Neil Cavuto, and certain editions of America’s News HQ), Studio F (used for The Story With Martha Maccallum, The Five, and America’s Election Headquarters) Studio G (which houses Fox Business shows), Studio H (Fox News Deck used for Shepard Smith Reporting and violating news coverage), Studio J (used for Fox & Friends Very first, America’s Newsroom, Hannity and Justice with Judge Jeanine) and the Web Studio (used for Fox News Live internet shows).

The remaining programs (such as Special Report with Bret Baier, On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren, and editions of America’s News HQ not broadcast from the Fresh York City studios) are broadcast from Fox News’s Washington, D.C. studio, located on Capitol Hill across from Union Station in a secured building collective by a number of other television networks (including NBC News and C-SPAN). Audio simulcasts of the channel are aired on XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.

In an October 11, two thousand nine Fresh York Times article, Fox articulated that its hard-news programming runs from “9 a.m. to four p.m. and six to eight p.m. on weekdays” and “[is] objective”; however, it makes no such claims for its other broadcasts, which primarily consist of editorial journalism and commentary. [38]

Fox News Channel began broadcasting in the 720p resolution format on May 1, 2008. [39] This format is available on all major cable and satellite providers.

Radio Edit

With the growth of FNC, the company introduced a radio division, Fox News Radio, in 2003. [40] Syndicated via the United States, the division provides brief newscasts and talk radio programs featuring personalities from the television and radio divisions. In 2006, the company also introduced Fox News Talk, a satellite radio station featuring programs syndicated by (and featuring) Fox News personalities.

Online Edit

Introduced in December 1995, [41] the Fox News website features the latest coverage (including columns by FNC television, radio and online personalities). Movie clips are also available on Foxnews.com and Foxbusiness.com. Fox News Latino is the version aimed at the Hispanic audience, albeit introduced almost entirely in English, with a Spanish section. [42]

In September 2008, FNC joined other channels in introducing a live streaming segment to its website: The Strategy Room, designed to appeal to older viewers. It airs weekdays from nine a.m. to five p.m. and takes the form of an informal discussion, with running commentary on the news. Regular discussion programs include Business Hour, News With a View and God Talk. [43] In March 2009, The Fox Nation was launched as a website intended to encourage readers to post, commenting on the news. [44] Fox News Mobile is the portion of the FNC website dedicated to streaming news clips formatted for video-enabled mobile phones. [45]

Program hosts Edit

• David Asman
• Bret Baier
• Julie Banderas
• Maria Bartiromo
• Eric Bolling
• Shannon Bream
• Tucker Carlson
• Neil Cavuto
• Steve Doocy
• Ainsley Earhardt
• Harris Faulkner
• Melissa Francis
• Jesse Waters
• Kimberly Guilfoyle
• Greg Gutfeld
• Sean Hannity
• Pete Hegseth
• Bill Hemmer
• Abby Huntsman
• Gregg Jarrett
• Kennedy
• Brian Kilmeade
• Howard Kurtz
• Martha MacCallum
• Meghan McCain
• Clayton Morris
• Arthel Neville
• Dana Perino
• Jeanine Pirro
• Elizabeth Prann
• Jon Scott
• Sandra Smith
• Shepard Smith
• Chris Wallace
• Juan Williams

Correspondents and substitute anchors Edit

Regular guests and contributors Edit

• Dr. Keith Ablow
• Mike Baker
• Dude Benson
• John R. Bolton
• Lisa Boothe
• Tammy Bruce
• Pat Caddell
• Herman Cain
• Rep. Jason Chaffetz
• Mo Elleithee[46]
• Ezekiel Emanuel[46]
• Erick Erickson
• Nigel Farage[47]
• Ari Fleischer
• Steve Forbes
• Newt Gingrich
• Bernard Goldberg
• Jonah Goldberg
• Marie Harf[46]
• Stephen Hayes
• Mollie Hemingway[46]
• Steve Hilton[46]
• Governor Mike Huckabee
• Charles Hurt
• Laura Ingraham
• Charles Krauthammer
• Dennis Kucinich
• Tomi Lahren
• John “Bradshaw” Layfield
• Rich Lowry
• Frank Luntz
• Leslie Marshall
• Dennis Miller
• Judith Miller
• Fr. Jonathan Morris
• Lt. Col. Oliver North
• Charles Payne
• Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
• Karl Rove
• Mercedes Schlapp
• Douglas Schoen
• Dr. Ben Stein
• Katherine Timpf
• Joe Trippi
• Gillian Turner
• Tyrus
• Stuart Varney
• Lis Wiehl

Former hosts and contributors Edit

• Louis Aguirre (former morning host, now host of The Insider)
• Dari Alexander (now at WNYW in Fresh York City)
• Dr. Jennifer Ashton (now at ABC News)
• Tiki Barber (now with CBS Sports Network)
• Fred Barnes (journalist)
• Rudi Bakhtiar (now PR Director for the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans)
• Glenn Beck (former afternoon host; now on TheBlaze)
• Bob Beckel (terminated amid racist remarks)
• Lisa Bernhard (entertainment correspondent)
• Tony Blankley (deceased)
• Dave Briggs
• Scott Brown
• Eric Burns (not renewed)
• Brenda Buttner (deceased)
• Joseph A. Cafasso (stepped down over allegations he overrepresented his military record)
• Alisyn Camerota (now at CNN)
• Gretchen Carlson
• Dr. Ben Carson (joined Trump cabinet)
• Steve Centanni (retired in August 2014)
• Liz Cheney (now in public service)
• Kiran Chetry (later worked for CNN)
• Wesley Clark (now at CNN)
• Alan Colmes (deceased)
• Rita Cosby (later worked at MSNBC)
• Catherine Crier (now at TruTV)
• Monica Crowley
• S. E. Cupp (now at CNN)
• Stacey Dash (not renewed)
• Jill Dobson
• Laurie Dhue (not renewed)
• Matt Drudge
• Darby Dunn (now at CNBC)
• Donna Fiducia (no longer active in cable news industry, went into Georgia real estate)
• Rick Folbaum (now at WFOR-TV)
• Harold Ford, Jr. (now at MSNBC)
• Courtney Friel (now at KTLA-TV)
• Neal Gabler
• Major Garrett (now at CBS News)
• Alexis Glick (left Fox Business in December 2009; now at CNN)
• Mary Katharine Ham (now at CNN) [48]
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck
• E. D. Hill (now at CNN)
• Marc Lamont Hill (now at BET and CNN)
• Kit Hoover (now at TLC)
• Margaret Hoover (left network 2012)
• Page Hopkins (left network September 26, 2008; now at MSNBC)
• Carol Iovanna (now runs production company)
• Marvin Kalb (not renewed)
• John Kasich
• Terry Keenan (deceased)
• Greg Kelly (now at WNYW in Fresh York City)
• Megyn Kelly (now at NBC News)
• Mort Kondracke
• Anna Kooiman
• Bill Kristol
• Jenna Lee
• Dana Lewis (now at WSAW-TV in Wausau)
• G. Gordon Liddy
• Rachel Marsden (contributor and Crimson Eye panelist; now lives in France)
• Bill McCuddy
• Zell Miller
• Dick Morris (contributor not renewed)
• Heather Nauert
• Robert Novak (deceased)
• Bill O’Reilly (terminated amid sexual harassment allegations)
• Barbara Olson (killed in the September eleven attacks in 2001)
• Julian Phillips
• Kirsten Powers (now at CNN)
• Judith Regan
• Julie Roginsky
• Ed Rollins (not renewed)
• Rick Santorum
• Mike Schneider (left for Bloomberg Television, most recently at NJTV)
• Laura Schwartz
• Bob Sellers (now morning co-anchor at WZTV in Nashville)
• Suzanne Sena (now at HLN)
• David Shuster (left Fox for MSNBC, later worked at Al Jazeera America)
• Jane Skinner
• Tony Snow (became White House Press Secretary, deceased)
• Andrea Tantaros
• Cal Thomas (not renewed)
• Greta Van Susteren (now at MSNBC)
• Linda Vester
• George Will
• Brian Wilson (presently morning drive time host on WMAL-FM)
• Paula Zahn (left for CNN, now at Investigation Discovery)

FNC eyed a large ratings leap during the early stages of the US invasion of Iraq. According to some reports, at the height of the conflict Fox News had as much as a 300-percent increase in viewership (averaging Three.Trio million viewers daily). [49] In 2004, FNC’s ratings for its broadcast of the Republican National Convention exceeded those of the three major broadcast networks. During President George W. Pubic hair’s address, Fox News attracted 7.Three million viewers nationally; NBC, ABC, and CBS had a viewership of Five.9 million, Five.1 million and Five.0 million respectively.

In late two thousand five and early 2006, FNC spotted a brief decline in ratings. One decline was in the 2nd quarter of 2006, when Fox News lost viewers for every prime-time program compared with the previous quarter. The audience for Special Report with Brit Hume, for example, dropped nineteen percent. Several weeks later, in the wake of the two thousand six North Korean missile test and the two thousand six Lebanon War, Fox eyed a surge in viewership and remained the #1-rated cable news channel. [50] [51] Fox produced eight of the top ten most-watched nightly cable news shows, with The O’Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes ending very first and 2nd respectively. [52]

FNC ranked #8 in viewership among all cable channels in 2006, and #6 in 2007. [53] The channel ranked #1 during the week of Barack Obama’s election (November 3–9) in 2008, and reached the top spot again in January two thousand ten (during the week of the special Senate election in Massachusetts). [54] Comparing Fox to its 24-hour-news-channel competitors, in May two thousand ten the channel drew an average daily prime-time audience of 1.8 million viewers (versus 747,000 for MSNBC and 595,000 for CNN). [55]

In September 2009, the Pew Research Center published a report on the public view of national news organizations. In the report, seventy two percent of polled Republican Fox viewers rated the channel as “favorable”, while forty three percent of polled Democratic viewers and fifty five percent of all polled viewers collective that opinion. However, Fox was given the highest “unfavorable” rating of all national outlets studied (25 percent of all polled viewers). The report went on to say, “partisan differences in views of Fox News have enhanced substantially since 2007”. [56] A Public Policy Polling poll concluded in two thousand thirteen that perceptions of FNC had declined from 2010. 41% of polled voters said they trust it, down from 49% in 2010, while 46% said they distrust it, up from 37% in 2010. It was also called the “most trusted” network by 34% of those polled, more than had said the same of any other network. [57]

On the night of October 22, 2012, Fox set a record for its highest-rated telecast ever, with 11.Five million viewers for the third U.S. presidential debate. [58] [59] In prime time the week before, Fox averaged almost Trio.7 million viewers with a total day average of 1.66 million viewers. [60]

In primetime and total day ratings for the week of April fifteen to 21, 2013, Fox News, propelled by its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, was the highest-ranked network on U.S. cable television, for the very first time since August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. [61] January two thousand fourteen marked Fox News’s 145th consecutive month as the number one rated cable news channel. During that month, Fox News hit CNN and MSNBC combined in overall viewers in both prime time hours and the total day. [62] In the third quarter of 2014, the network was the most-watched cable channel during prime time hours. [63] During the final week of the campaign for the United States elections, 2014, Fox News had the highest ratings of any cable channel, news or otherwise. On election night itself, Fox News’ coverage had higher ratings than that of any of the other five cable or network news sources among viewers inbetween twenty five and fifty four years of age. [64] The network hosted the very first prime-time GOP candidates’ forum of the two thousand sixteen campaign on August 6. The debate reached a record-breaking twenty four million viewers, by far the largest audience ever for any cable news event. [65]

As indicated by a Fresh York Times article, based on Nielsen statistics, Fox shows up to have a mostly aged demographic. [66] In 2008, in the 25–54 age group, Fox News had an average of 557,000 viewers, but dropped to 379,000 in two thousand thirteen while enlargening its overall audience from 1.89 million in two thousand ten to Two.02 million in 2013. The median age of a prime-time viewer was sixty eight as of 2015. [67]

Fox News Channel originally used the slogan “Fair and Balanced”, which was coined by network co-founder Roger Ailes while the network was being established. The Fresh York Times described the slogan as being both a “blunt signal that Fox News planned to counteract what Mr. Ailes and many others viewed as a liberal bias ingrained in television coverage by establishment news networks.” [68] [Sixty nine]

In August 2003, Fox sued comedian Al Franken over his use of the slogan as a subtitle for his book, Lies and the Lounging Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, which is critical of Fox News Channel. [70] The lawsuit was dropped three days later, after Judge Denny Chin refused its request for an injunction. In his decision, Chin ruled the case was “wholly without merit, both factually and legally”. He went on to suggest that Fox News’ trademark on the phrase “fair and balanced” could be invalid. [71] In December 2003, FNC won a legal battle concerning the slogan, when AlterNet filed a cancellation petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to have FNC’s trademark rescinded as inaccurate. AlterNet included the documentary film Outfoxed as supporting evidence in its case. [72] After losing early motions, AlterNet withdrew its petition; the USPTO dismissed the case. [73] In 2008, FNC used the slogan “We Report, You Determine”, referring to “You Determine 2008” (FNC’s original slogan for its coverage of election issues).

In August 2016, Fox News Channel began to calmly phase out the “Fair and Balanced” slogan in favor of “Most Observed, Most Trusted”; when these switches were reported in June two thousand seventeen by Gabriel Sherman (a writer who had written a biography on Ailes), a network executive stated that the switch “has nothing to do with programming or editorial decisions.” It was speculated by media outlets that Fox News Channel was wishing to distance itself from Ailes’ tenure at the network. [68] [74] [Sixty nine]

Alleged bias Edit

Fox News Channel has been widely criticized for biased reporting in favor of conservative political positions [75] [Ten] [76] and the Republican Party. [11] A two thousand eight examine found that Fox News gave disproportionate attention to polls that demonstrated low approval for President Bill Clinton. [77] A two thousand nine examine found that Fox News was less likely to pick up stories that reflected well on Democrats, and more likely to pick up stories that reflected well on Republicans. [78] A two thousand ten probe comparing Fox News Channel’s Special Report With Brit Hume and NBC’s Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during two thousand five concluded that “Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC”, suggesting that “if scholars proceed to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC. they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media”. [79]

Research also shows that Fox News increases Republican vote shares and makes Republican politicians more partisan. [80] [81] [82] [83] A two thousand seven explore, using the introduction of Fox News into local markets (1996-2000) as an instrumental variable, found that in the two thousand presidential election “Republicans gained 0.Four to 0.7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News”, suggesting that “Fox News coaxed three to twenty eight percent of its viewers to vote Republican, depending on the audience measure”. [81] These results were confirmed by a two thousand fifteen explore. [83] A two thousand fourteen investigate, using the same instrumental variable, found that congressional “representatives become less supportive of President Clinton in districts where Fox News commences broadcasting than similar representatives in similar districts where Fox News was not broadcast.” [82] A two thousand seventeen explore, using channel positions as an instrumental variable, found that “Fox News increases Republican vote shares by 0.Trio points among viewers induced into watching Two.Five extra minutes per week by variation in position.” [80] Another two thousand fourteen paper found that Fox News viewing enhanced Republican vote shares among voters who identified as Republican or independent. [84]

Fox News publicly denies that it is biased, with Murdoch and Ailes telling have included Murdoch’s statement that Fox has “given room to both sides, whereas only one side had it before”. [85] [86] [87] Fox News host Chris Wallace has said, “I think we are the counter-weight [to NBC News] . they have a liberal agenda, and we tell the other side of the story.” [88] [89] [90] [91] In 2004, Robert Greenwald’s documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism argued that Fox News had a conservative bias and featured clips from Fox News and internal memos from editorial vice president John Moody directing Fox News staff on how to report certain subjects. [92] [93]

A leaked memo from Fox News vice president Bill Sammon to news staff at the height of the health care reform in the United States debate has been cited as an example of the pro-Republican Party bias of Fox News. His memo asked the staff to “use the term ‘government-run health insurance,’ or, when brevity is a concern, ‘government option,’ whenever possible”. The memo was sent shortly after Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised Sean Hannity on his Fox demonstrate that “If you call it a public option, the American people are split. If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it”. [94]

Surveys display that Fox News is widely perceived to be ideological. A two thousand nine Pew survey found that Fox News is viewed as the most ideological channel in America, with forty seven percent of those surveyed said Fox News is “mostly conservative”, fourteen percent said “mostly liberal” and twenty four percent said “neither”. In comparison, MSNBC had thirty six percent identify it as “mostly liberal”, eleven percent as “mostly conservative” and twenty seven percent as “neither”. CNN had thirty seven percent describe it as “mostly liberal”, eleven percent as “mostly conservative” and thirty three percent as “neither”. [95] A two thousand four Pew Research Center survey demonstrated that FNC was cited (unprompted) by sixty nine percent of national journalists as a conservative news organization. [96] A Rasmussen poll found that thirty one percent of Americans felt that Fox News had a conservative bias, and fifteen percent that it had a liberal bias. The poll also reported that thirty six percent believed Fox News produces news with neither a conservative or liberal bias, compared with thirty seven percent who said NPR supplies news with no conservative or liberal bias and thirty two percent who said the same of CNN. [97]

David Carr, media critic for The Fresh York Times, praised the two thousand twelve presidential election results coverage on Fox News for the network’s response to Republican adviser and Fox News contributor Karl Rove challenging its call that Barack Obama would win Ohio and the election. Fox’s prediction was correct. Carr wrote:

Over many months, Fox lulled its conservative base with agitprop: that President Obama was a clear failure, that a majority of Americans spotted [Mitt] Romney as a good alternative in hard times, and that polls displaying otherwise were politically motivated and not to be believed. But on Tuesday night, the people in charge of Fox News were confronted with a stark choice after it became clear that Mr. Romney had fallen brief: was Fox, very first and foremost, a place for advocacy or a place for news? In this moment, at least, Fox chose news. [98]

A May two thousand seventeen probe conducted by Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy examined coverage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s very first one hundred days in office by several major mainstream media outlets including Fox. [99] It found that, altogether, Trump received 80% negative coverage from the media, and that he received the least negative coverage on Fox – 52% negative and 48% positive. [100]

False claims about the Fresh York Times Edit

In July 2017, a report by Fox & Friends falsely said that the Fresh York Times had disclosed intelligence in one of its stories and that this intelligence disclosure helped Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, to evade capture. [101] [102] [103] The report cited an inaccurate assertion by Gen. Tony Thomas, the head of the United States Special Operations Guideline, that a major newspaper had disclosed the intelligence. [101] [104] Fox News said that it was the Fresh York Times, repeatedly running the chyron “NYT FOILS U.S. ATTEMPT TO TAKE OUT AL-BAHGDADI”. [104] Pete Hegseth, one of the demonstrate’s hosts, criticized the “failing Fresh York Times”. [104] President Donald Trump tweeted about the Fox & Friends report shortly after it very first aired, telling “The Failing Fresh York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most desired terrorist, Al-Baghdadi. Their sick agenda over National Security.” [101] Fox News later updated the story, but without apologizing to the Fresh York Times or responding directly to the inaccuracies. [104]

In a Washington Post column, Erik Wemple said that Chris Wallace had covered the Fresh York Times story himself on Fox News Sunday. “Here’s another case of the differing standards inbetween Fox News’s opinion operation,” which has given “a state-run vibe on all matters related to Trump,” compared to Fox News’s news operation, which has provided “mostly sane coverage.” [105]

Climate switch Edit

A two thousand eleven examine found that Fox News “takes a more dismissive tone toward climate switch than CNN and MSNBC”. [106] A two thousand eight probe found that Fox News emphasized the scientific uncertainty of climate switch more than CNN, less likely to state that climate switch was real, and more likely to interview climate switch skeptics. [106]

Shepard Smith has drawn attention for being one of few voices on Fox News to forcefully state that climate switch is real, that human activities are a primary contributor to it and that there is a scientific consensus on the issue. [107] [108] His acceptance of the scientific consensus on climate switch has drawn criticism from Fox News viewers and conservatives. [109] [110]

Donald Trump wiretapping claim Edit

On March 14, 2017, Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News commentator, claimed on Fox & Friends that British intelligence agency GCHQ had wiretapped Donald Trump on behalf of Barack Obama during the two thousand sixteen United States presidential election. [111] [112] On March 16, 2017, White House spokesman Sean Spicer repeated the claim. [111] When Trump was questioned about the claim at a news conference, he said “All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for telling that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it.” [113] On March 17, 2017, Shepard Smith, a Fox News anchor, acknowledged that the network had no evidence that Trump was under surveillance. British officials said the White House was backing off the claim, but the White House did not release a public statement voicing regret. [113] Napolitano was later suspended by Fox News for making the claim. [114]

Encouragement of violence against protesters Edit

In January 2017, the Daily Caller published a movie which encouraged violence against protesters. [115] [116] [117] The movie was subsequently reposted by Fox Nation, an offshoot of Fox News’ website. [115] The movie in question demonstrated a car plowing through protesters, with the headline “Here’s A Reel Of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Attempting To Block The Road” and set to a cover of Ludacris’ “Stir Bitch.” [115] The movie drew attention in August two thousand seventeen when a white supremacist plowed his car through a group of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. [115] After the movie attracted attention, Fox News deleted it from its website. [115] [117]

Murder of Seth Rich conspiracy Edit

On sixteen May 2017, the same day that other news organizations were extensively covering Donald Trump’ revelation of classified information to Russia, [118] Fox News ran a lead story about a private investigator’s uncorroborated claims about the murder of Seth Rich, a DNC staffer. [119] [120] [121] The private investigator asserted that he had uncovered evidence that Rich was in contact with Wikileaks and that law enforcement were covering it up. [119] The killing of Rich has given rise to conspiracy theories in rightwing circles that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party had Seth Rich killed allegedly because he was the source of the DNC leaks. [119] U.S. intelligence agencies had determined that Russia was the source of the leaks. [122] In reporting the investigator’s claims, the Fox News report re-ignited right-wing conspiracy theories about the killing. [119] [121]

Other news organizations exposed that the investigator was a Donald Trump supporter and had according to NBC News “developed a reputation for making outlandish claims, such as one appearance on Fox News in two thousand seven in which he warned that underground networks of pink pistol-toting lesbo gangs were raping youthful women.” [119] [123] The family of Seth Rich, the Washington D.C police department, the Washington D.C. mayor’s office, the FBI, and law enforcement sources familiar with the case, rebuked the investigator’s claims. [119] [120] The family said, “We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to pack the void and divert law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth’s murderers.” [119] The spokesperson for the family criticized Fox News for its reporting, alleging that the outlet was motivated by a desire to deflect attention from the Trump-Russia story: “I think there’s a very special place in hell for people that would use the memory of a murder victim in order to pursue a political agenda.” [118] The family has called for retractions and apologies from Fox News for the inaccurate reporting. [124] [125] Over the course of the day, Fox News altered the contents of the story and the headline, but did not issue corrections. [126] [127] When CNN contacted the private investigator later that day, the investigator said that he had no evidence that Rich had contacted Wikileaks. [121] The investigator claimed that he only learned about the possible existence of the evidence from a Fox News reporter. [121] Fox News did not react to inquiries by CNN, and the Washington Post. [121] [120] Fox News later on twenty three May retracted its original report, stating that the original report did not meet its standards. [128]

Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, wrote that the promotion of the conspiracy theory demonstrated how Fox News was “remaking itself in the picture of fringe media in the age of Trump, blurring the lines inbetween real and fake news.” [129] Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations said that while intent behind Fox News, as a counterweight to the liberal media was laudable, the culmination of those efforts have been to create an alternative news source that promotes hoaxes and myths, of which the promotion of the Seth Rich conspiracy is an example. [130] Fox News was also criticized by conservative outlets, such as the Weekly Standard, [131] National Review, [132] [133] and conservative columnists, such as Jennifer Rubin, [134] Michael Gerson, [135] and John Podhoretz. [136]

Obama administration conflict with Fox News Edit

In September 2009, the Obama administration engaged in a wordy conflict with Fox News Channel. On September 20, President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, and Fox coverage of Obama’s health-care proposal. [137] [138]

In late September 2009, Obama senior advisor David Axelrod and Roger Ailes met in secret to attempt to sleek out tensions inbetween the two camps. Two weeks later, White House officials referred to FNC as “not a news network”, communications director Anita Dunn stating that “Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party”. [139] [140] President Obama observed, “If media is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing, and if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another”. [141] White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel stated that it was significant “to not have the CNNs and the others in the world basically be led in following Fox”. [142]

Within days, it was reported that Fox had been excluded from an interview with administration official Ken Feinberg, with bureau chiefs from the White House press pool (ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN) coming to Fox’s defense. [143] A bureau chief stated, “If any member had been excluded it would have been the same thing, it has nothing to do with Fox or the White House or the substance of the issues”. [144] Shortly after the story broke, the White House admitted to a low-level mistake, telling that Fox had not made a specific request to interview Feinberg. Fox White House correspondent Major Garrett responded by stating that he had not made a specific request, but that he had a “standing request from me as senior White House correspondent on Fox to interview any newsmaker at the Treasury at any given time news is being made”. [145]

On November 8, 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that an unnamed Democratic consultant was warned by the White House not to emerge on Fox News again. According to the article, Anita Dunn claimed in an e-mail to have checked with colleagues who “deal with TV issues” and had been told that nobody had been instructed to avoid Fox. Patrick Caddell, a Fox News contributor and former pollster for President Jimmy Carter, said he had spoken with other Democratic consultants who had received similar warnings from the White House. [146]

On October Two, 2013, Fox News host Anna Kooiman cited on the air a fake story from the National Report parody site, which claimed that President Obama had suggested to keep the International Museum of Muslim Cultures open with cash from his own pocket. [147] [148] [149]

White supremacist rally in Charlottesville Edit

Various Fox News hosts and contributors defended President Trump’s remarks that “many sides” were to blame for violence at a gathering of hundreds of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia. [150] [151] Some Fox News hosts and contributors criticized Trump. [152] [151] In a press conference on fifteen August, Trump used the term “alt-left” to describe counterprotesters at the white supremacist rally, a term which had been used in Fox News’ coverage of the white supremacist rally. [150] Several of Trump’s comments at the press conference mirrored those appearing earlier on Fox News. [153]

Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham suggested a partial defense of Trump, telling that Trump was right to point out “the evil of a far left that is attempting to rip down both history and intimidate free speech in the country.” [150] On the day of Trump’s press conference, Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity focused their shows on criticizing liberals and the media. [152] The next day, Hannity focused his demonstrate on the racist past of the Democratic Party, as well as “left-wing acceptance of black radicalism”. [151] Fox News host Tucker Carlson also covered historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, Mohammed, Simon Bolivar and Plato, who wielded marionettes on his showcase, and said that individuals who desired to eliminate confederate monuments would want to eliminate statues of Abraham Lincoln next. [150] [152] [154] Carlson also questioned whether it was a disturbance of the Very first Amendment for businesses to deny services to white supremacists. [151] A guest on Tucker Carlson’s display equated individuals who want to eliminate confederate monuments to “Weimar thugs” and the Taliban. [152] A guest on Fox & Friends equated the confederate flag with the rainbow flag, telling they “represent the exact same thing,” and the hosts of Fox & Friends did not provide a response to the guest’s remarks. [155] [156] The Fox & Friends host, Pete Hegseth, blamed the media for the violence at the white supremacist gathering. [157]

According to Dylan Byers of CNN, Fox News’ coverage on the day of the press conference “was strenuous with “whataboutism”. The average Fox viewer was likely left with the impression that the media’s criticism of Trump and leftist protestors’ toppling of some Confederate statues were far greater threats to America than white supremacism or the president’s apparent defense of bigotry.” [152] Byers wrote, “it showcased that if Fox News has a line when it comes to Trump’s presidency, it was not crossed on Tuesday.” [152]

The Fox News Channel feed is available internationally via a number of providers, while Fox Extra segments provide alternate programming. [158]

Fox Extra Edit

Primarily, U.S. advertisements were substituted on FNC with viewer e-mail and profiles of FNC anchors set to music. In 2002, these were substituted with international weather forecasts. In 2006, the weather forecasts were substituted with Fox Extra (originally Fox News Extra, prior to the international launch of Fox Business) segments, narrated reports from Fox on a diversity of topics. These reports generally concern lighter issues unrelated to current news events, and the segments are repeated. FNC also shows international weather forecasts when Fox Extra segments run brief. In the United Kingdom, after a period when local commercials were inserted into violates, Fox Extra now fills most violates.

Australia Edit

In Australia, FNC is broadcast on the superior pay television provider Foxtel, which is 50% wielded by News Corp Australia, the Australian arm of News Corp and the sister company of 21st Century Fox which wields FNC. Local cable news channel Sky News Australia is wholly possessed by News Corp Australia [159] and is therefore FNC’s de facto sister channel, albeit has formal partnerships with FNC competitor CNN as well as both ABC News and CBS News. [160]

Brazil Edit

Since 2002, FNC has been broadcast to Brazil; however, commercials are substituted with Fox Extra. It is available in packages of Vivo TV.

Canada Edit

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) application to bring Fox News to Canada due to concerns that Fox News U.S. and the Global Television Network were planning to create a combined American-Canadian news network. In 2004, after a Fox News U.S. executive said there were no plans to create a combined channel, the CRTC approved an application to bring Fox News to Canada. [161]

France Edit

Fox News is available on cable through French internet provider Free on Ass-pipe 352. As of Spring 2017, the channel was no longer found on the provider Orange’s lineup.

Indonesia Edit

In Indonesia, It is available in Channel three hundred thirty five in pay TV provider Indovision.

Ireland Edit

Fox news has been eliminated as of 30/08/2017 due to its right-wing content.

FNC is carried in the Republic of Ireland by Sky, which is 40-percent possessed by FNC’s parent company, 21st Century Fox. It is run as a sister channel to Sky’s own news channel, Sky News. FNC is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard-encrypted channel; during major news stories, it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free-to-air. As of September 2006, the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its cracks. These run under the brand of Fox News International. Due to the collective ownership of Fox and Sky, both channels share bureaus and reporters for violating news stories worldwide.

Israel Edit

In Israel, FNC is broadcast on Channel one hundred five of the satellite provider yes, as well as being carried on Cellcom TV. [162] It is also broadcast on channel two hundred on cable operator HOT. [163]

Italy Edit

In Italy, FNC was launched on the now-defunct Italian digital satellite television platform Stream TV in 2001. Part of its programming was translated into Italian and broadcast on the defunct Italian news channel Stream News. In 2003, it moved to SKY Italia, with U.S. commercials substituted by Fox News Extra segments. It is available to Four.6 million subscribers and 160,000 hotel rooms. SKY TG twenty four is a sister channel to Fox News.

Netherlands Edit

In the Netherlands, Fox News has been carried by cable providers UPC Nederland and CASEMA, and satellite provider Canaldigitaal; all have dropped the channel in latest years. At this time, only cable provider Caiway (available in a limited number of towns in the central part of the country) is broadcasting the channel. The channel is also carried by IPTV provider KNIPPR.

Fresh Zealand Edit

In Fresh Zealand, FNC is broadcast on Channel eighty eight of pay satellite operator SKY Network Television’s digital platform. It was formerly broadcast overnight on free-to-air UHF Fresh Zealand TV channel Prime (possessed by SKY); this was discontinued in January 2010, reportedly due to an expiring broadcasting license. [164] Fox News’ former parent company News Corporation has a stake in both SKY and Prime.

Pakistan Edit

In Pakistan, Fox News Channel is available on PTCL Wise TV and a number of cable and IPTV operators.

Philippines Edit

In the Philippines, Fox News Channel was available on cable operator Fate Cable channel twenty one (analog)/channel one hundred twelve (digital) Now on SkyCable Channel one hundred twelve it is available only on digital platform. And now on Skycable available on High Definition Channel 211. It is also seen on Cignal Digital TV channel 131.

Scandinavia Edit

Inbetween two thousand three and 2006, in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries, FNC was broadcast sixteen hours a day on TV8 (with Fox News Extra segments substituting U.S. advertising). Fox News was dropped by TV8 and substituted by German news channel Deutsche Welle in September 2006.

Singapore Edit

In Singapore, FNC is broadcast on channel seven hundred two on pay cable operator StarHub TV digital platform. It also broadcasts its sister channel, Sky News.

South Africa Edit

In South Africa, FNC is broadcast on channel four hundred five of pay satellite operator TopTV’s digital platform. [165]

United Kingdom Edit

FNC was also carried in the United Kingdom by Sky, a satellite television network which is 40-percent possessed by FNC parent 21st Century Fox. It is run as a sister channel to Sky’s own Sky News. FNC is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard-encrypted channel; during major news stories, it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free-to-air. As of September two thousand six [update] , the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its cracks. These run under the brand of Fox News International. Beginning in winter 2011, most violates resumed Fox Extra. Due to the collective ownership of Fox and Sky, Fox News (and Fox Business) and Sky News share bureaus and reporters for cracking news stories worldwide.

On August 29, 2017, Sky dropped Fox News; the broadcaster stated that its carriage was not “commercially viable”, as the channel had an average viewership of less than Two,000 viewers per-day. The company stated that the decision was unrelated to 21st Century Fox’s proposed acquisition of the remainder of Sky plc, which is presently undergoing a review by regulators. The potential co-ownership had prompted concerns from critics of the deal, who felt that Sky News could fall under a shift to an opinionated format with a right-wing viewpoint, similar to Fox News; the channel has violated the Ofcom codes a number of times, including broadcasting analysis of the Brexit vote while polls were still open (a disturbance of British election laws; during the two thousand seventeen general election, Fox News was blocked by Sky during the polling period to prevent the airing of prohibited content), and violations of a requirement for all news programming to demonstrate due impartiality. [166] [167] [168]

Other countries Edit

Fox News is carried in more than forty other countries. Albeit service to Japan ceased in summer 2003, it can still be seen on Americable (distributor for American bases), [169] Mediatti (Kadena Air Base) [170] and Pan Global TV Japan. [171]

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