The Fox Network turns down airing President Obama's news conference tonight
By John Amato Tuesday Apr 28, 2009 10:00am
(photo via Reuters)
I was going to write that this didn't surprise me, but it actually does because it's not the FOX News channel.
The network is turning down the president's request to show his prime-time news conference on Wednesday. The news conference marks Obama's 100th day in office. Instead of the president, Fox viewers will see an episode of the Tim Roth drama "Lie to Me."
It's the first time a broadcast network has refused Obama's request. This will be the third prime-time news conference in Obama's presidency. ABC, CBS and NBC are airing it.
Fox Broadcasting Company issued a statement on their motives:
"The Fox Broadcasting Company will not air the Presidential News Conference," Fox said in a statement. "Fox's sister networks, Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network, will air the press conference in its entirety. Fox will be alerting viewers with an onscreen graphic at the top of the 8:00 PM (ET) hour that the press conference is available on Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.
If John McCain or George Bush were giving a prime time news conference, FOX would be giving it wall to wall coverage. Being the only network not to broadcast it kind of hits home the right wing bias that Rupert Murdock has brought to television. If Bill O'Reilly or Chris Wallace start whining about President Obama not appearing on their network they can only look at their own behavior, but this is much bigger than that. This is the president giving a speech to the nation at a critical time in our history and FOX just passed.
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Never heard of it
Title says tonight article says Wed night.
I'm so glad Obama went on with O' Reiley back when he was running for president. It was obviously so effective.
I guess FOX Propaganda really showed Obama a thing-or-two.
The Fox nation will be upset if they preempt everyone's favorite shows.
Ya, it's not like people go to FOX for their news anyway. It's like interupting a children's channel with news. They might find it too disturbing. They can't handle the truth.
Is there a list of FOX network sponsors? I wouldn't want to indirectly support FOX or any FOX sponsors. I've kind of reached my limit.
crybabies!
It's like some snotnose little brat taking his ball and goin home in tears.
Wussies!
Exactly.
Typical bullies.
Formers bullies that just got an asswhuppin, and ain't the big kid on the block no more.
or Nascar?
I am still boycotting fox.
who needs faux?!
Is never having watched FOX a boycott? If so, me too.
Yes, I would rather watch NASCAR than Obama anyday. Unless he has something important to say which I doubt. He has been a huge disappointment for us Progressives and we are bored with his platitude and wishy washy rhetoric like "keep looking forward" it's flat out boring and insulting. His is as they said an elitist and will always talk down to the masses. The great messiah is a phony.
...so would my sixth grade nephew.
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It figures you'd like that non-athletic bullshit.
tut!tut!not a bit of it! ahem !shovel ready jobs! 5 million new jobs with CLEAN COAL, we have been saved by new old coal technology, i weep , i tear up , every body gets a piece of ass with an old fashioned obama donky roast and picknic!and why would anyone care what fox snooze does or does not do?
"his is as they said..." sorry your no progressive. Plus they aren't ditching him for NASCAR, they are ditching him for a drama entitled "Lie to Me". See we progressives read and think before we type
Who HERE has called him the great messiah?
Of the choices available to the American public (once the MSM dismissed Dennis K) he looked the best altrnative to folks like, let's say "Double Gitmo" types, or flat-earthers, or the drag Queen from NYC.
Really, who were your choices?????? All a blend of American centre-right.
oh.... wait. Giuliani... got it. funny.
Dont forget about the candidate in the magic underpants....
I still wonder if the initial poster was being sarcastic or serious.
So? Their core adience cares little about Obama anyway, and Fox always does what's best for Fox. They even did the same to Bush. No story here, move along.
the better. If they were that powerful McCain and Palin would be in the White House right now.
This is Fox, the national broadcast channel, not Fox News. This is a regular broadcast station, not something on cable. The audience is not like the Fox News crew. This is all America which could be watching (and right after one of the top shows in the country, to boot).
Also, Fox has turned down a request for a speech by Dubya once before, but at that point, so had every station in the country.
That said, not just is this a 100 day report, but with the addition of this possible flu pandemic outbreak, it is downright irresponsible for Fox to pull this shit. Fuck their advertising dollars. This is the public airwaves.
At this point in time, they deserve to lose their license for this crap.
I think that Rupert Murdoch should be publicly flogged with Sean Hannity.
Well, that's a big stick to hit him with, but okay! Use the foot end or the head end?
smacked down Fox today. That's where I've heard of them before.
Funny, the liberal judges leaned in Fox's favor in that case. It looked like it was kinda difficult for the fox talking head news readers to read this story today. They are so anti liberal yet the liberals they are anti were their friends in court.
and start doing something.
. . . looks like a wrinkly testicle with old-man glasses and a bad toupee.
to the unwashed.
now my brain hurts!!
Ban them from WH press conferences to save them some more trouble.
why does the headline say tonight when the article says wednesday?
Makes a lot of sense.
They're the one's raking him over the coals
Emphasizing "broken promises" over his first 100 days
And now not carry the press conference?
I hope Obama calls on none of them for questions.
I guess the fox nation doesn't care about the President of the United States. Who's president of this new nation? Beck?
Nascar series.
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All they're gonna do is criticize anything he says or does anyway.
This is not Fox News. This is local Fox (local across the country). In Chicago it is channel 32. This isn't cable, it's broadcast.
To me that is even worse, that means fox viewers without cable won't see the President. Hopefully they will switch over to one of the other major networks to watch.
Fox viewers don't need to be informed about government policy with regard to the potential health crisis. Government is the problem.
Besides, they'll clutch their bibles and patiently wait for the lord to make the germs go away. If that doesn't work...well...then it was god's will.
They are not the same. This is the channel which broadcasts The Simpsons, American Idol, and other popular shows. This is not cable and it is not the bible crowd. And THAT is precisely why this decision is wrong.
That's why it pisses me off so badly. It's just wrong. Sure, Fox can direct their viewers to Fox News or their lame business network, but both are on cable.
WTF ever happened to the public airwaves?
Oh right.
Nevermind.
Good gosh...we privatized that decades ago. Hmmmm...was that before or after we sold Conrail?
News anchors just read the news? Before news became entertainment? (Sigh)
I'm still boycotting teevee anyway.
Neither will The Cartoon Network, E, VH1, ESPN. Who gives a shit.
I think that this does matter because this is not some cable show, this is a broadcast network like ABC, CBS, and NBC. If the airwaves are public, and with all the shit going on (including the new flu pandemic), I think it is downright irresponsible for this station to not carry it. Fox News or any other on cable is one thing, but not a regular broadcast channel.
I thought all you from Illinois always stuck together. Hi.
I'm just blinded by my hatred for Fox.
I've seen more attractive kissers on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHCsVQG3o6U&fe...
They are probably just exhausted from all of the "teabagging".
Actually, I'm surprised they are not showing the "24" Jack Bower torture works, episode.
24 Torture Marathon
Making us watch Alias.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRfTz0nWt9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBC8o8edaa0
Do we know they aren't showing "24" that night?
They live it! ;-)
Good point!
Considering Obama will most certainly talk about the flu, I'm surprised Fox would choose not to participate in scaring the shit out of the public along with everyone else.
I'd be willing to bet Murdoch changes his mind on this one.
get the movie "Out Foxed" and you will see just how chicken shit they are. If you want to do real news, go some where else, here on fox we only supply bullshit and made up news.
Fox at 8:00 PM Wed. Can't interrupt the Record Company's search for the next Product.
They're replacing Obama's conference with a show called, "Lie to Me"? Oh how clever, FOX!
You can't tell me they did that by accident.
that is there moto.
Lie to you?
;p
Faux is airing Lie to Me as a shout-out to all the Republicans who miss the Bush lies so much that instead of listening to Obama they just need to put something that contains only bullshit on TV, it makes them feel better (more at home) to be hearing nonsense and lies come out of their TV-machine.
They made a movie about my sex life?
What sex life? (snicker)
OUCH!
this is just more bullshit to not look at the real story. bush crime clan goes to prison.
Quite frankly FAUX NOISE, I don't give a damn. LOL
... every to crawl upon our shores.
He's just filthy.
by the shockiness of it all.
Tonight we get real advise from retired Corporate Experts on how to be prepared.
Things you can do today? Here's my "B List":
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Have 3-4 months of food on hand. Minimum.
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Have lots of reading materials piled up by this fall.
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Get a note from your doctor if you have any drug allergies or are allergic to mercury-based preservatives in vaccines. Make sure it's on his letterhead.
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If you have breathing issues, stock up on inhalers and such now while they are still available.
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If the flu turns out to kill by an over-reaction of the body's immune system, ask your doc about whether it would help to have Benadryl or other anti histamines on hand...something I'll be asking around about today.
In short, while we're in this period of adapting to the events, seems the wise thing to do would be to stay focused not on the number of victims, but rather the specific things that you can ACT on right now. "A List":
Basic Shopping List
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Latex or nitrile gloves - 6-month supply
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6-month supply of prescription meds
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N-95 (or better) masks 3-months worth for family
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Vitamin D
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Vitamin C
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Aspirin
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Chicken soup
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2-gallons of bleach (unscented, Clorox or Purex type - generic is fine...) (Self life: 6-mo.)
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6 Spray bottles for bleach
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Six month food supply and paper products/disposables
That sounds kind of like our yearly hurricane supply kit.
the contents of my nightstand. ; 0 )
You mean Fox actually covers anything other than trash and stuff Hannratty and Beck can put in their spew?? Amazing....I had no idea....
Football and the Simpsons...and a string of repetitive formula crap that literally seems to stream into one amorphous mess.
If FOX refuses to air Obama's press conference, then they force the loyal viewers who wish to see it to go to FNC, where they will watch it with FNC's own "special spin". What better way to continue their lies!
1. Fox did, in fact, refuse to bcast one of GWB's prime time addresses because they said it was not important enough to offset the advertising revenue (est. $10 million) they lose when a president does this.
2. The other networks are grumbling (ABC, most loudly) that this is the third request for a prime time address in three months. This represents an unprecedented pace for any president.
Contemporary comment from a leader in the TV industry -
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zof9lj&s=5
That man in the picture is so fugly his trophy wife has to be seriously drugged just to touch him:
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/telebuddy/archi...
Fox Network, not false news
Also Fox Network did not air a Dubya speech
It's kind of a non story, and we the left make ourself look like rightwing teabaggers if we play this up.
I'm no of FalseNews, but they are airing the speech.
Priorities and facts people.
The whiny babies will just leap on you if you shout about this without the correct info, even though they tend to lie constantly.
Our outrage should stay focused on the torture issue. Or any of the other infinitely important issues.
:)
The point is ABC, CBS, NBC will lose advertising monies when they do this. Fox, while they can afford to do this, is notoriously cheap and is still, even after all these years, NOT a full network.
I know it's not really an excuse, but it's the one they use.
Rupert Murdock, actually the OLD VERSION
of Rupaul, is like an angry little child,
who wants to throw shit at a fan, but they
forget to not stand in front of the fan....oops!
Now that's letting your balls hang ALL out without even pretending that they are covered by even a fair bit of cloth or whether their hanging in a balanced manner.
Airing "Lie to me" opposite the Presidents speech, I hope Obama gets the freaking hint this time and quits trying to play footsie with these right wing mouth breathing haters of freedom.
The country ... not so much.
Fox News is not patriotic.
- just snipped a Pampers coupon (XL for large babies)from Coupon Bug and E-mailed it to Faux News
Why are we not censoring Fox news media. Just who in the h... wished to keep hearing their unpatriotic BS.. Not only the news part of Foxes ,, but their whole d... network..
Tell the Australian to keep his news network propaganda home.. He is not a news media but a misinformation , propaganda and BS organization which is determind to destroy our country with their misinformation and deceit...
Has this happened in the past with any of the networks before?
I am amazed by the number of Democrats that appear on Fox Entertainment. We MUST maginalize these reich-wing fascist entertainment channels. NO Democrats should EVER appear on Fox anything.
Watch and see how that is swallowed by those fascists over at Fox Entertainment. They want to act like they are "fair and balanaced" when they are anything but. How stupid are people to keep watching anything on Fox Entertainment, including their republiKKKon "news" channel. If they want to be the reich-wing "news" arm of the republiKKKon party, then just let republiKKKons appear on any of their shows.
I put ALL Fox channels on parental block so they do not even show up if I am channel surfing. NO fox in my house, EVER.
Bye Bye advertising revenue
Is the CW airing the press conference?
If anything, this signals that "lie to Me" is possibly not getting renewed, and Fox wants to run out the existing episodes so they air more American Idol, or bring their own torture game show to prime time.
Why is Groening still on Fox, anyway? Or MacFarlan, or anyone?
Anyone wanna bet the conference will end up having better ratings than American Idol?
Anyway, once Avatar bombs, that's pretty much it for the Murdoch machine. The guy actually had a good run up until he became a Bush-whore. His lack of quality-control in the news started expanding to the rest of his empire, and he's on the ropes this year. Buy out all you want, Rupert, but as Time Warner and Viacom will tell you, corporate acquisitions tend to be liabilities more than improvements.
Fox is run by excellent brand managers who know that simply by "not" doing an Obama moment will garner them free publicity and reinforce their core viewership, and build brand identity. Their viewership is so ideologically brainwashed they'd never consider such an act as unpatriotic.
More importantly, Fox's behavior goes against the spirit of the FCC license they received from our government to be a broadcaster. It's time for the Congress to reinvigorate the FCC laws.
Who's that guy kidding with that dark hair?
He probably shaved the ass of a skunk.
The news conference will be broadcast by umpteen billion stations.
If one network chooses to air something else - and even goes to the trouble of letting their viewers know that the president is speaking and where they can switch channels to see him if they want - what is the faux outrage about?
Personally, I think it is enough if one broadcast channel, one cable channel and one radio station broadcast the wretched thing. Anyone who is interested can tune in. Why should we have big brother force this stuff down our throats.
The only intelligence displayed at these so-called "conferences" are the occasional words that Helen Thomas is allow to utter.
From what I read this morning, FOX did the same thing to W back in 2001. More people watch FOX NEWS for the press conferences, so it doesn't make sense to show it. Sorry, not a good post.
Fox " news " should be shut down and put out of business , they have been and they are nothing but a public menace .
Sore. Losers.
No great loss... and the tiny percentage of alleged humans who get their mind-feed from Ruppert Murdoch are likely in no shape to take on the big vocabulary.
It's best they're left to drivel.
What is this "Fox" you speak of? Never heard of it.
...FOX TV not airing the press conference is such a big deal. I'm going to watch the P.C. on the many other outlets carrying it (including FAUX "NEWS") I actually LIKE "Lie To Me". I'm DVRing it while the presser is on. BTW, I consider myself liberal.
This question and answer session is nothing more than a sales pitch and most of the media outlets are catering to him. How many prime time press conferences have been granted to this president since January? More than the last President had in 8 years. This is nothing more than liberal propoganda being shoved down the throats of idiots who feed on it. Those who think he is the mesiah are not going to love him more. This just shows that he owns the media and that is very, very scary. Shame on any network who airs this hard sell tactic. Supporting a dictator and their takeover tactics is un-American.
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