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I would rather buy hunter Biden’s used crack pipe than this pile of crap company
More likely someone like jeffy bezos or Georgie soros now has a LARGE position. Keep an eye on filings.
Fox are sellouts they lost their base and this will go only one way from down to zero get out while you can
Almost 7 years later and you are still right..... Can I have your next stock pick?
Looks like this board didn't work out so well...
Where did all the libtards go????? lmaoooo...See what happens when you watch too much MSNBC...brain friggin' dead.....Buhahahahahaaha....
Hey Roger..better kop a plea
Regan opens Fox's can of worms
Judith Regan's lawsuit against Fox sets up the possibility of some very interesting disclosures, says Richard Aregood
Thursday November 15, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox Television Stations, addresses reporters during a news conference in New York. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP
At first glance, the lawsuit by former book publisher Judith Regan against News Corporation, parent company of "fair and balanced" Fox News, has a certain similarity to the Iran-Iraq war: it's hard to work up a rooting interest in either side.
Regan, among other things, has shepherded the literary careers of celebrity authors such as Rush Limbaugh, OJ Simpson and porn star Jenna Jameson, eliciting surprise among some that her writers had read a book, let alone written one.
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Her most recent fame came from her role as the paramour of the former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, meeting him for assignations in a city apartment intended to provide respite for 9/11 rescue workers.
News Corporation owns, among other properties, the New York Post, the 20th Century Fox movie studio, DirecTV, the Fox Network, Fox News and the recently acquired Wall Street Journal.
The Fox News chief, Roger Ailes, is a long-time Republican activist dating back to the days of the Richard Nixon administration, and a close associate of former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani.
Ailes managed Giuliani's first and unsuccessful race for mayor in 1989, and Giuliani later officiated at Ailes's wedding. When Fox News was a start-up, then-Mayor Giuliani pushed so hard to force cable networks such as Time-Warner to carry it that a federal judge hearing a subsequent lawsuit blocked the mayor's plan to put Fox on a city-owned channel, calling it "special advocacy" to "reward a friend and further a political viewpoint". Guiliani was a highly visible tablemate and guest of Ailes and Fox at the most recent White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Ailes had for years been caustically critical of Cable News Network, calling it the "Clinton News Network" because of the friendship between Bill Clinton and former CNN president Rick Kaplan, although his criticism seemed to be based on Kaplan's access to Clinton rather than anything that actually appeared on CNN.
Despite Ailes's old claims of outrage, his close personal and professional relationship with Giuliani, in which both parties have provided direct support to the other, is at the very least unusual. And it is beyond unusual for a former campaign manager to direct coverage of his old candidate.
That's what makes the suit interesting. Regan's 70-page filing, in spite of its frustrating lack of elaboration on its most spectacular allegations, paints a picture at considerable variance from the 24-hour news network's "fair and balanced" slogan.
Her central point, which might seem credible to anyone who has seen a Sean Hannity-Giuliani televised lovefest, is that Fox's coverage of the presidential race is determined by its desire to promote Giuliani. In fact, she alleges in court papers that "a senior executive" had advised Regan to "lie to, and withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik".
Indeed", it adds, "another News Corp. executive similarly advised Regan not to produce clearly relevant documents in connection with the government's investigation of Kerik".
That, Regan asserts, led to a concerted campaign to discredit her. "The smear campaign", she says, "was necessary to advance News Corp.'s political agenda, which has long centred on protecting Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions".
If that can be proven, it's contemptible. And if it emerges that one of those executives was Ailes, how much damage might that do to Fox News? We may never know who those executives were; Fox would appear to have a strong incentive to settle this matter before it gets anywhere near the courtroom. Even Regan might not really want to harm either Giuliani or Fox - she might just want lots of money.
If the suit does move forward and Regan can substantiate her claims, it will provide a critical boost for her lawsuit, which one employment lawyer called a "very well-drafted complaint". The lawyer, who asked not to be identified because she is not familiar with the details of Regan's contract, says an employer has to justify a firing for cause by showing that the employee did something fraudulent, illegal or in violation of company policy, particularly if damage to the company's reputation ensues. The misbehaviour has to be willful, deliberate, negligent or intentional.
But the most interesting stuff in the complaint is the part that she musters less dudgeon over. It calls into question whether Fox News has any relationship beyond its name with news.
This "senior executive", she says, tried to go beyond withholding facts from federal investigators that might hurt Guiliani or Kerik, his partner in the security consulting firm Giuliani Partners. "In fact", the suit says, "as is typically done when Fox News on-air talent and commentators receive their 'talking points', this executive attempted to influence any information that Regan might be asked to give regarding Kerik".
She also makes one final interesting about lawyers for News Corp. In discussions over an anti-Regan article in the New York Post that Regan says was totally fictional, her complaint alleges that the lawyers acknowledged that the article in question was per se defamatory, but they offered her a dubious reassurance: "No one believes what they read in the New York Post."
Notice how the PPS is dropping like a rock!!!
Something Fox would rather you not see. Its worth the 8 minutes of your life to watch.
billo
ur news or wut?
wut news?
all u do iz scream an hollor
wiff that one eye shooting of to the right
can u explain?
i know u luv nbc an the ny times
u gotta watch an read to decide or iz that report an decide?
IMUS in the morning on fox?
izza in luv with u scally
pleaz point out the hatred and distortion
since u brought it up
U hate ..u have distorted
next!
Posted by: scallywag
In reply to: freto38 who wrote msg# 71 Date:10/15/2007 10:17:40 PM
Post #72 of 72
haha, lol, rofl!!! looks like your board went nowhere. not hard to understand. besides you being a complete dumb and your writing completely indeciperable, your board is based entirely on hatred and distortion and that's never a good combination for success.
#7 Billo will utter the words
"Keith Obermann" after his ratings fall below Countdown's #1 story
Rumor has it a video exists with Bill and Hannity french kissing.
#7 to be continued
or the first one to post it
#6 Shawn Hannity will call off..i repeat call off
his boycott of Norway...after xxx rated video's show up with blonde blue eyed babes on a google search
#4 Bill O'Reilly
Will auction off(on Ebay) a signed book(by Michael Devlin) of The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families to pay off Shawn Hornbeck liable case!
#3 Michelle Malkin will get sued bye Graeme Frost from a provison of the Patroit Act...she will spend time in Gitmo
#2 Google moveson bye fox an family
"Fox Noise Alert"
"Top Ten Worst of Fox Noise Countdown"
#1 The melting of the Bipolar caps does not influence Global Warming!
post your worst!
FoX cult gonna boycott Google
cuzz ur jealous of Gore being on the BOD ..my my oh my oh my
Michelle Malkin
shame shame shame...picking on a 12yr old boy
where r ur morals??
Bill O'reilly
where is Shawn Hornbeck's apology???
"Shawn Hannity calls for boycott off Norway"
"Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize"
Hey what would Hannity say about Edward Murrow 's quote " we can not defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home" Back when the news was aloud to speak.
Hey Shawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
u have something against Al Gore??
Gore Gore Gore
as ur children face a big freakin mess when ur gone!
com on shawn think of the children
" U freakin Morons!!!!"
give al kada the edge again
"Billo"
u got any better things to talk about???
muskic and gays
y u hitttin san fran so hard...hey if they did get any new recurits ..u'd bashem cuzz de are gay
AS for Bruce...come into the factor come into the factor
yeah rite billo..u just go into al kada an no spinnerz U sama
"Fox Noise Alert"
yeppers they told us the U/Osama gonna get us in Iraq an Iran..unless we spend another trillion bucks on a ill though out war
i say lets taxs everybody rite now for the cost of this war
or get out!
then just tax the cult that got us into this mess
Fox Noise name calls and smears the Clinton's!
on foxy friendly the Headline was Socks & Doc..under that was Sandy Berger joins Clinton Campaign!
Wut does the cult want America to think..Sandy is a prevert or what?
Get a live Cult Noise....No one cares
bet Shawn babie does a big smear tonite!!
The question is who are the real terrorist.
Yes I believe you. Isn't that something? Takes a lot of faith to pray for someone who'd like to see you dead.
Yet back home here we fight and call each other names over red/blue.
Should make all of us feel a little foolish and hopefully give us a little perspective.
Another good point Freto.
John
i assure u rite now...many of our finest soldiers are praying for the terrorists families rite now!
Good point Freto. We should all keep room in our thoughts and prayers for those who we may not always agree with. I've probably not always been the best at that. I think I'll start with the terrorists tonight, I know I've short changed them in my prayers =).
Thanks for pointing that out though because I think that is one of the biggest problems in the political arena today. We voters have lost sight of the fact that those who vote differently then us are human and have good intentions. In fact more than likely they are the same people we interact with everyday. The internet has lowered the level of discourse so much that we think the opponent has horns and is mentally inferior to us. Another thing I have been guilty of on occasion.
Ok Mr. Wallace...who did u pray for today?
Harry Reid??
Did u pray for the war to end as soon a possible?
How about global warming? On second thought ask Shawn to do that!
Did Murdock pray to end global warming..or is this just a pr stunt??
Have u prayed for the suicide bombers? How about the terriosts familes?
get my drift now..huh??? billo next!
lol
i'am sure the fox kopperz will be on my tail!!
freto, maybe you could get a guest post from O'reilly or Hannity to set the record straight. lol
sure will john
thanks for stopping bye
what do u think of news outlet's pushing their religion
Sad that both the left and the right are both brainwashed now days.
Until both sides stop the blind support of their party's reps, we will continue to be a nation divided and will not make much headway towards improving this nation.
Good luck with your board Freto. As a conservative, I will stay away and let you make fun of us all you want LOL. At times we do make it easy. Besides Free contry and all, so I'm sure some enterprising sort will start one about the loony left eventually. I am tired of the bickering so I would stay away from a board like that too.
Have fun buddy.
"Fox Noise Alert"
dang Redskinzzzzz
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2006-31,RNWE:en&q...
hey boltz
here is the link to countdown
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
here iz what really ticks the right-wingerz off..keiths special comments..some from u-tube..real funny
http://search.msn.com/results.asp?search=Web&q=keith+olbermann+on++u-tube&submit=Search&...
could be true. the dollar dropped that is for sure.
cash
sry mark
one l rite?
really some guy from canada gave it to me
like fox i never check facts..lol
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=23481634
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