<7 Minutes - Time Faux News devoted to Haiti by Beck, Hannity, O' Reilly

[RamboLiberal]

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.

MSNBC's top programs provide more than 18 times as much coverage of Haiti earthquake as Fox News' top shows
The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009, combined to devote a total of 6 minutes, 41 seconds of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti. Among the things they chose to air instead were Beck's interview with Palin -- to which he devoted nearly his entire show -- Hannity's continued advocacy for Brown; and O'Reilly's discussion of Stewart. Countdown, The Rachel Maddow Show, and Hardball, MSNBC's three top-rated shows, devoted 2 hours, 2 minutes and 33 seconds to the earthquake -- more than 18 times the coverage devoted by Fox News' top three shows. Other Fox News shows -- such as Special Report with Bret Baier and The Fox Report with Shepard Smith -- did devote extensive coverage to the earthquake.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201001140029

[Orrex]

1. That's galling of course, and hardly surprising, but...

On the other hand, I've seen the same wholly uninformative three-minute clip of CNN's on-the-ground reporting about 40 times since yesterday.

[Andy823]

2. Well we all know

The these 3 have an agenda, it bashing democrats and the president if that agenda! They don't care about "real" news, just anything that is anti liberal!

[Mimosa]

3. It's a business strategy....

I figured out that they know when it comes to serious wall to wall news events, CNN owns the territory. Thus, Fox has made a stategic decision to all but ignore the 'upsetting, 'downer' stuff.

But I'm going to check to see if Shep Smith goes to Haiti. His coverage of New Orleans after Katrina was the best, maybe because he knew the area. And he has a heart.

[MiniMe]

4. They gave up on the Caribbean after that blond girl disapearred in Aruba

They gave tons of coverage on that one. I guess they blew their Caribbean budget.

[Cleita]

8. Eh, Aruba was a probably pleasant place to visit to cover a story.

Haiti, on the other hand, is not a pleasant place to be in right now, nor is there a salacious story to cover but a very sad one and they don't want to go there. They might cry.

[MadMaddie]

5. hmmph that much spent on black folks....they have exceeded

expectations.:sarcasm:

[Raine]

6. No wonder their viewers are so ignorant

I guess that's the way Faux likes it, keep em stupid. :silly:

[Contrary1]

7. You're not suggesting that 100,000+ dead are more important than Princess Palin, are you? n/t

[azul]

9. This more than suggests that FOX is a joke and not real news.

When a real news story hits, and people have a need to know the information, they know that they won't get much of reality by watching bubble-heads acting like fools and pointing hate fingers.

It's become pretty obvious to most people that still want to think for themselves, and to know the salient facts during a crisis, that this is really shitty news coverage.