thinkprogress.org — Today on Fox News, Neil Cavuto devoted much of his show?s coverage to the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. To give the real picture of what?s going on, Cavuto brought in two ?experts? on back-to-back segments ? exercise guru Richard Simmons and boxing promoter Don King. (See photo at link)
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shawnfassettAug 29, 2006
Saw this on Think Progress...Fox "News" just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I'm sad to say my mom watches this crap. <a class="user" href="http://people.tribe.net/shawnfassett/blog">http://people.tribe.net/shawnfassett/blog</a>
hockeygoon15Aug 30, 2006
agreed
Closed AccountAug 30, 2006
I'd say it's better than NBC News last night. Brought George W Bush down there to interview him about Katrina. Their second question, they blindsided him with questions about Iraq. Way to stay on topic guys.
jaymoonAug 30, 2006
Exactly boonesfarm.ThinkProgress is critical of Fox News for being biased.Have they even taken a look at their own website at all?
toxicbomberAug 30, 2006
@JaymoonHave you actually watched the segment? I thought it was merely a joke because of how ridiculous it was...but no in fact the segment is real and he mentions the word "experts" when referring to them...experts on the impact its had on the nation as a whole...not technical analysts or experts on the disaster...but still, WTF?Simmons lives in LA for crying out loud, what the hell does he know about the impact that Katrina had on that area? Jack-and-s**t...that's what.Don King?...."ONLY IN AMERICA!!"....could this man been seen as having anything of value to be said about the impact this has had on real people...when in fact he is as out of touch with its real impact as any other celebrity. He might have family affected...but that makes him no victim let alone an "expert".Fox News....just die already, please!
spjmm0Aug 31, 2006
They were never called experts. Simmons grew up there. Dumbass
catullusSep 1, 2006
sorry to prolong this discussion, but, technically it's not even a visual joke. visually "au" looks completely different from "o"... so there's no "visual pun" or homonym in play. the only way "au" relates to "o" is if you pronounce them the same, but again that's entering the realm of spoken word
mykindaspamSep 2, 2006
This is a non-story. Richard Simmons is a life-long resident and King was brought on as a celebrity commentator. If by asking these two celebrities to comment on Katrina, one of whom lives in NO and the other a partisan cheerleader with a project to promote, means that the network is idiotic or doesn't do real news, then ALL of the media is in the same boat, including AAR, NPR, CBS--even PBS works theses types in. NBC's "Today Show" does the same thing, but they are worse than Fox, because they actually devote multiple, earnestly-deadpan segments to ask Angelina Jolie how to end famine and poverty in Africa and Brad Pitt how to design ecologically-efficient yet economical housing in New Orleans with a straight face. At least Cavuto had fun with both the segment and the guests and didn't pretend that they were serious commentators.
mykindaspamSep 2, 2006
13tongimp says, "Fox News division is run by Roger Ailes who worked for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush (41). If that isn't being in the GOP camp, I don't know what is." What does that say about Chris Mathews who worked for Carter, Stephanopoulos who worked for Clinton, Russert worked for Cuomo and Moynihan, Meredith Viera and her husband, Richard Cohen, who was a senior political producer at CBS during the 80's marched in an anti-Bush/anti-war protest, Katie Couric--well, I refuse to classify her as a "news" reporter, Dan Rather raised money for a Dem Party in TX, Richard Stengle's (Time magazine's managing editor),former boss and idol was Bill Bradley and the list goes on. Those are just the obvious examples that I thought of without much effort. How much of the staff, executives, journalists and other influential members of the media are "in the Democratic camp?" A Pew poll found that 34% of reporters self-identified as "liberal." Only 7% self-identified as "conservative." To dispell the claims of bad data, just a quick quiz will back up these numbers. How many reporters accurately noted that the discussion was about ILLEGAL immigration not just "immigration?" If they disapproved of the term "illegal," they could have noted the difference by using "undocumented" immigration, but they didn't. How often were La Raza and MeCHA identified as "left-wing" or "ultra-liberal" the way the Center for Immigration Studies and the Heritage Foundation were IDed as "right-wing" and "ultra-conservative?" How likely is it that a former intern for Ronald Reagan would anchor the NBC Nightly News, as does former Carter intern, Brian Williams? For every former Cheney staffer, Pete Williams, there are tens of Brian Williams' in the media.