"Meet the Paris Hilton of Television News" - Faux News Rips Anderson Cooper

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

The hosts of Fox & Friends served as a useful marketing tool for FNC this morning, repeatedly talking about this new trade magazine ad slamming Anderson Cooper.

(Cooper, as you recall, taught FNC about journalism last week.)

Fox responded by calling Cooper "the Paris Hilton of television news." And now the network is emphasizing the analogy with a big print ad.

"Meet the Paris Hilton of television news," the ad says. "Who could that possibly be? Guy with great hair," Steve Doocy "asked."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp0w5phGESA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mPT4SH_H7A

Bet they lack the balls to take on KO!

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Pot. Kettle. Black.

[Rose Siding]

2. Attack your opponent for having your weaknesses. Hmmm....why does

that strategy seem so familiar?


Must be the dawning of the age of I Know You Are But What Am I

[YOY]

3. WAIT-A-MINIT!

Fox has "friends"?

When did this happen...

[Fleshdancer]

4. Didn't Greta retool her entire face just to work on FNC?

Isn't THAT more Hiltonesqe than Anderson Cooper? By the way, when was the last time Paris did anything informative? When was did she ever investigate the tragedies in New Orleans? Screw Paris, when did Greta ever do anything like that? Does she have a story outside of the missing blonde woman issue? And while we're on the subject of comparing teleprompter readers to Paris Hilton, are the Fox News & Friends REALLY the best people to judge? Talk about glass houses. :eyes:

[RamboLiberal]

15. Yes Greta did retool her face to work on Faux

Though last I saw the work seemed to regress.

[gatorboy]

5. Comparing to Paris Hilton? Is that a subtle homophobic remark?

[Ganja Ninja]

9. More of a dig at his inheritance.

He's the son of Gloria Vanderbilt.

[Fleshdancer]

11. well if that's the case, W should also be compared to Hilton

and not just because they're both idiots and painful to listen to.

[Ganja Ninja]

13. Give Paris Hilton a break will ya.

;)

[Ganja Ninja]

6. From the network of journalists like Geraldo.

:spray:

[philosophie_en_rose]

7. Yeah. Because Paris Hilton was so involved in Hurricane Katrina.

And Anderson Cooper doesn't wear panties.


:eyes:

[Supersedeas]

23. and Great Van Windbag was so concerned about the cross examination du jour

[philosophie_en_rose]

29. She is also a Scientologist.

Which I think explains her sense of logic.

[Bobbie Jo]

8. Doocy...stick to the freakin weather

Isn't there a shit storm you could be covering somewhere or something? :eyes:

[TZ]

10. somebody smart ran this idiot...

out of DC a long time ago. Thank goodness. We DON'T miss you.

[TZ]

12. a little insecure..

about our own brainpower are we Faux news? Classic projection. He is smarter than all of you put together:eyes:
Although I admit he is very good looking...:-)

[RamboLiberal]

14. CNN's reply

CNN Responds To Cooper: "Roger Is Apparently Spinning Out Of Control"
CNN's response to Fox's AC ad:

"Roger is apparently spinning out of control over the ratings. Before Anderson Cooper took over the 10pm time slot Fox News had a 174% lead in the demo (Aug. 05). Now it is a mere 21% in Jan. 07.

As usual, Fox can't get the facts quite right. Anderson just beat Greta Thursday night."

CNN says Anderson beat Greta 40 times in the demo last year, and three times in January.

CNN also points to awards -- A Peabody, DuPont, and three Emmys for 360 in 2006. Greta Van Susteren? Zero.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

I'm glad Faux is going to war with both CNN and MSNBC - IMHO this will keep them from running with the crap Faux puts out and may get them fact-checking and refuting Faux.

[maxrandb]

19. CNN replies to Fox

"Our whores are much classier than yours"

[Imagevision]

24. Greta is hallucinating if she thinks she can top Anderson Cooper,

[Cabcere]

16. Leave Anderson alone,

you Fox hypocrites. :grr: Yes, he's Gloria Vanderbilt's son, and yes, he's pretty (and I mean that in the best way possible! :*), but there's a lot more to him than just money and good looks. Read Dispatches from the Edge and then try and tell me he's the "Paris Hilton of Television News." Go on, do it. I dare you.

:rant: (Sorry if that came off a bit...well, fangirlish, but I just read his book recently and it hit a very raw nerve with me - not to mention set off my protective instincts like crazy, even though he's nearly twice my age and perfectly capable of taking care of himself. :blush: )

Oh, and RamboLiberal, I think you're damn right they lack the balls to take on KO. Last I heard, even mentioning his name was enough to sic "Fox Security" on you! :rofl: Part of me kind of hopes they try, though...it'd be fun to see him verbally rip them apart. Again. :evilgrin:

[TZ]

18. you are right about his book..

I normally don't read that kind of book (more the scifi/fantasy novel type usually) but I have been very impressed with AC. That was an excellent book. Well written and extermely open and honest. You don't often find public personalities willing to put their true feelings into writing with all the demons that can expose. Kudos to him. The best journalist on TV these days without a doubt. He is more the opposite of Paris Hilton- she is an example of the worst that can happen growing up with money- he kind of went the opposite direction..can you see Paris sleeping in a tent for goodness sake?:rofl:

[Cabcere]

22. I know what you mean.

*WARNING: EXTREME GUSHING AHEAD! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.* ;)

I don't think I have ever read another book that almost had me in tears by the end of the first page, much less the first sentence. I'm sure it's partially due to being confronted with my own father's brush with death when I was a teenager, but that first sentence about his father dying hit me like a punch in the gut. :cry: And you're absolutely right, it takes a hell of a lot of courage for anyone, especially a public figure, to write about personal tragedies and all the issues that go along with them. I was very impressed with his raw honesty and his ability to make you feel the pain, desperation, fear, and hope of the people in the terrible situations he's covered over the years. It almost hurt to read this book at times because it was so intense (and intensely personal), but I loved it. I liked AC's style when I saw him on TV, but Dispatches from the Edge gave me a whole new level of respect for the man. :loveya:

*FANGIRLING COMPLETE. RESUME NORMAL POSTING.* :P

[maxrandb]

17. I watched Faux and Fiends once

I stopped on a channel, as I was flipping, and thought for sure it was a old Saturday Night Live re-run. If Faux and Fiends is not parody...it should be.

[sakabatou]

20. .

[Cabcere]

21. Cute graphic

and very applicable. :)

[rocktivity]

25. To see Fox's REAL problem with Anderson Cooper

Check the ratings in the 10PM - 12M EST time slot (25-54 demographic, thousands of viewers):

10PM - 11PM: Fox (Greta) 219; Cooper (CNN) 286
11PM - 12M: Fox (O'Reilly) 248; Cooper (CNN) 215

:headbang:
rocknation

[Cabcere]

27. Interesting

When I'm home and have access to a TV, I usually watch AC from 10-11, then switch over to The Daily Show/Colbert Report for the last hour. (But then again, I'm not quite in the "money" demographic, so I suppose it's kind of irrelevant. ;)) What surprises me is that O'Reilly has so many viewers. :shrug: I suppose he might be considered charismatic (???) in his own way, but when I tried to watch his show, it wasn't even his politics that turned me off - it was his incessant interruption of everyone else on the show who so much as tried to get a word in edgewise. :shrug: To me, that's just not good TV journalism. But to each his own, I suppose...

[Evergreen Emerald]

26. He exposed them for the lying propaganda machines that they are

regarding the obama/clinton piece of fiction. He was scathing in his rebuke of Fox's airing of the story without even a cursory checking of facts.

Funny, I believe this type of journalism is the norm on all msm, including CNN.

[brettdale]

28. How Sad for Greta

I liked her on CNN, what must she be thinking.
I guess she is thinking about her bank account.

[Lex]

30. My Dad: "I thought Fox & Friends was a morning cartoon show . . .

then I watched it one morning and found out I was right."

LOL!

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. 'And he still gets beat...'

Apparently, Faux has the same cavalier attitude about grammar as about journalism.

[SeattleGirl]

32. I loved Keith Olbermann's response to that attack tonight::

It was something along the line of, "If Anderson Cooper is the Paris Hilton of TV news, then what is Fox Noise? Dame Edna?" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: