Condemnation For FAUX News Not Airing Hope For Haiti Earthquake International Broadcast
Last night I shouted out at the lack of compassion and decency when FAUX News did not let their conservative base know that there was a need to open up their wallets for those caught in the Haiti earthquake crisis. I mean given all the ‘compassionate conservatives’ that we are led to believe watch FAUX News…..of yeah…that is only at election sloganerring time……
The internet is filled with comment today such as this.
Fox News will not be covering the global telethon tonight. Fox News has given limited coverage to the tragedy but they are promoting a special broadcast airing tomorrow called Country in Chaos. The special will addressing the “lawlessness and looting” that plagues the country nearly a week after the earthquake. This show will be hosted by Geraldo Rivera. This is what they want to showcase in a country where the people of Haiti are being buried in mass graves, where thousands of children have been maimed, burned and even orphaned, but Fox News wants to talk about looting, but tonight they elected not to participate in a global effort to help.
Like many of you, I sat down and took in the two hours of Hope for Haiti Now last night – a music-based benefit organized by overall good guy George Clooney. It was broadcast on most TV and cable networks. This will shock you, but Fox News did not – I repeat, DID NOT – broadcast the show last night. That is completely surprising to – well – nobody.
Fox News was the only news network and almost the only network, period, not to air the Hope for Haiti telethon tonight. Instead, it chose to air The O’Reilly Factor and Hannity in full. Hannity didn’t even discus Haiti. According to MTV, the sponsor of the telethon, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox (broadcasting), CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Español, HBO Latino and Canadian networks, including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television and MuchMusic were to broadcast the fundraiser, as would BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International.
Well, those Fox News watching fu–tards missed out on some pretty cool moments last night.
But let us face the facts. There is just not a desire of FAUX News to care.
On January 13, Fox News’ three top-rated programs for 2009 — The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck — devoted a combined total of less than 7 minutes of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti, instead choosing to air such things as Beck’s hour-long interview with Sarah Palin, Bill O’Reilly’s discussion of Comedy Central host Jon Stewart, and Sean Hannity’s advocacy for Massachusetts candidate Scott Brown’s Senate campaign. By contrast, the content of MSNBC’s three top-rated shows underscored the significance of the Haiti disaster; Countdown, The Rachel Maddow Show, and Hardball devoted a total of more than two hours to the earthquake.* Why would a major network basically ignore a devastating earthquake that is the leading news story on all the other networks? This morning while the other networks continued to cover the story Fox News chose not to lead off with the story. Instead they talked about the Massachussetts senate race and the unsuccessful Christmas bombing. Obviously this story for some reason is simply not important to them.
What a bunch of whining
Don’t forget Jesus was a liberal Jewish man.
Oh, BTW. Do you plan on writing a blog post about the large number of Christian organizations and missionaries that were working in Haiti? Those organizations (filled with primarily conservatives) have been opening up their wallets for years. It didn’t take a disaster to get them to do it. So don’t even try to sell this crap that conservatives don’t care about their fellow man. We don’t wait around for the government to take care of this stuff. We just go do it.
I do watch FOX, but I don’t agree with not airing the telethon. They should have done it because they have such a large share of the cable audience.
Cherry picking a single day of coverage is so stupid. Why not cherry pick a single 10 minute segment of time and say Fox didn’t cover Haiti at all? Damn statistics.