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more about #cablenews more comments → BlinkyMcChuck: Last person to fire yourself, turn the lights out! more » BlinkyMcChuck: Ha. Soon no one will work there. Amazing! more » rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: It's these damned Internets, if only people couldn't just hop onto Google and check facts then Fox wouldn't have this problem. Which is why Rupert wa... more » MisterHippity: See, here's the thing about mistakes: People don't make them intentionally. That's why they're called "mistakes." So threatening to fire people is no... more » Go Like Hell Machine: @wadeanderson: I'm not going to reply to your entire, long comment, because I don't feel like getting in a boring argument. I'm only going to excerpt... more » Atilla the Bun: But the actual quality control memo doesn't say it will fire people who screw up. It says there will be a "zero-tolerance" policy but then says the d... more » pepelicious: So, reading between the lines here, the message is basically do a better job of not getting caught perpetrating outright lies. more » Mediahohoho: But when your sole reason for existence is to act as the propaganda arm for the conservative movement, can you ever actually be wrong? more » daveyjonesisdead: Can Gawker start a count-up clock, like those "Injury-Free for x Hours" clocks at factories? Let's see if then can make it a week. more » BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): But what about the on-purpose "mistakes" like "Foley, D" above? Oh, I know, They'll just stop covering that stuff alltogether to fair and balance it... more » AzureTexan: Also, too: "It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on." If I remember the Falafel Chronicles correctly, that's not what Bill O'Re... more » mimigoliath: The author of this memo knows where he/she works, don't they? Because I think this is setting the standard waaaaay higher than they're used to. more » Tremonius: Ah, the old bait-and-switch; who goes to work at Faux Noise expecting "accuracy" to play any part? It's like accepting a job as a secretary and findin... more » Jill7: Fox News to go "Employee-Free" in 2011? more » AzureTexan: A "mistake chain" is to Fox News what a polymer chain is to PVC — an inextricable component in its material constitution. To eliminate the chain is ... more » -
#qualitycontrol
Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
The big chiefs at Fox News aren't happy at the string of high-profile lies they got caught telling recently, so they're going to start firing people who get caught in the future, because they hate having to admit mistakes. More » -
#meaculpa
Fox News Apologizes — Again — for Being Fake
Fox News has apologized, for the second time in as many weeks, for boosting crowd sizes at wingnut events with fake footage. Somewhere, Roger Ailes is quietly and deliberately strangling a kitten. More » -
#whitelies
MSNBC Wants You to Call Your Congressman and Yell at Him, Just Like Fox News
In a New York Times story portraying MSNBC is independent and not at all like those ideologues at Fox News, Rachel Maddow says, "we're not saying ‘Call your congressman, show up at this rally!" This is not true. More » -
#talkingheads
Does John King Hate Mexicans Enough to Fill Lou Dobbs' Shoes?
No, he does not. But CNN will replace the departing Lou Dobbs with mild-mannered touchscreen jockey John King, doubling-down on the admirable straight-news strategy that has catapulted it to the bottom of the cable news race. More » -
#mistakes
CNBC's Microsoft Fail
Business Insider thought to ask CNBC if they planned on apologizing for the network's epic snafu on Friday, when reporter Jim Goldman misreported Microsoft's announced expense reductions as revenue reductions, news that "bombed" the NASDAQ. Guess what? Nope. More » -
#videuhoh
Fox Anchor Gets Feisty Over Democratic Invocation of "Fair and Balanced" Tagline
The setup: Fox Anchor Gregg Jarret's talking at Democratic New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews about constitutional powers and requirements for insurance. It slides into debating the Framers' intent. Andrews invokes Fox's "Fair and Balanced" line, and Jarret gets huffy. More » -
#pr
Shocker! Fox News' PR People Caught Lying About Something!
Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart got an e-mail from Fox News last week that he thought was funny, and posted about it on Twitter. Fox News flacks said the network never sent the e-mail. They lied. More » -
#startingover
Being a Right-Wing Pundit Isn't What It Used to Be
Amy Holmes, the affable former speechwriter for GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist who tried to represent a reasonably conservative point-of-view for CNN, has left the network and is filling in as an anchor for ABC News' unwatched digital channel. More » -
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#gasbags
Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
Keith Olbermann's hour-long, uninterrupted, endless "Special Comment" last night was actually called "The Fight Against Death." You will lose that fight, Keith. We all will. More » -
#errors
MSNBC Pulls a Trick From the Fox News Playbook
In this clip, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer reports new Gallup poll data showing that "just nine percent approve of the GOP" in Congress. She's wrong. It's MSNBC's version of Fox News putting a "(D)" after the name of every pedophile Republican. More » -
#bullies
Dylan Ratigan Is a Colossal Prick
Here's MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan behaving like your high-school gym coach this morning when his guest Mark McKinnon tried to talk about something that wasn't marked down on Ratigan's clipboard as an approved topic of conversation. -
#attendance
Keith Olbermann Will Explain Where In the World He's Been
Keith Olbermann has worked 13 days this month, leaving Countdown to be guest-hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell or David Shuster on eight nonconsecutive nights. This is after a two-and-a-half week vacation in July. He's back tonight, and MSNBC says he'll explain. More » -
#clairvoyance
Glenn Beck Is Even Wrong in the Future
Yesterday, in furtherance of his indictment of Barack Obama as an Olympics-mongering gamewhore, Glenn Beck pointed out that the Olympics suck and Vancouver lost $1 billion when it hosted them. Next year. More » -
#weekendwarriors
Just Don't Watch Cable News This Weekend, Please
Prepare for a bipartisan orgy of political posturing and apocalyptically awful punditry this weekend, as Barack Obama hits the Sunday talk shows while a bunch of Teabaggers pray for Jesus to come home at the Values Voters Conference. More » -
#idiocracyisreal
Politico's Emmy Dreams
We've long known that Politico exists for no other reason than to make money by celebrating and enabling the continuing devolution of political reporting into content-free, America-hurting cable-news idiocy. But it's still sad to see them actually admit it. More » -
#sadclowns
Leftist 'Terrorizer' of Children Is Now Glenn Beck's Official Portraitist
It's difficult to take a performance artist like Glenn Beck too seriously when he keeps breaking out of character. For instance: Time's new cover is another photo of him by Jill Greenberg, a liberal he pretends to hate. More » -
#fatcats
Roger Ailes Made More Money Than Rupert Murdoch Last Year
If you need more proof that Fox News is the only thing keeping Rupert Murdoch's empire alive, look no further: Foul propagandist Roger Ailes made $24 million last year—$2 million more than his boss, foul oligarch Rupert Murdoch. More » -
#boycotts
Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
Now we know why Glenn Beck hates Van Jones so much: Fox News' ad revenue from Beck's show has been cut in half since Color of Change launched an advertiser boycott against the show. More » -
#streisandeffect
Glenn Beck, PR Genius, Spreads the False Rumor He Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990
Some online provocateurs launched an internet meme claiming Glenn Beck killed a young girl in 1990 to parody his maddening fact-free rhetorical style. Now Glenn Beck's trying to shut down their web site, ensuring that people will write about it. More » -
#blagoplease
Rod Blagojevich, Media Joker
Lawmaker-turned-dancing machine Tom Delay astutely pointed out that politics is showbiz. And few politicians have mastered the fine art more than Rod Blagojevich, who at once relishes in and scorns the spotlight. He is, simply, the Joker of media gaming. More »
