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If only it was the beginning of a media trend. Studio execs know that people from both sides of the political spectrum watch their shows. Considering the statistics, two-thirds of the country doesn't pay attention to politics, ever, so your actors are more likely to lose you money and advertisers when they spout off, then attract any net gain, (unless bad publicity is considered a gain). Just blacking out their inappropriate remarks helps keep attention on the actual show, not some self-important actors latest pet project. If the actor has a problem with that, go on the news and talk...

It looks as though Fox may be miffed at Rosie O'Donnell for calling their treatment of booted "American Idol" contestant "racist." "We're no longer given access to 'American Idol' (video) clips. They're apparently mad at us ... When I say 'us,' I really mean me," O'Donnell said on Wednesday's broadcast, calling the situation "sad." "It started with the two special-ed boys and then my concern about Paula (Abdul's) possible non-attentiveness and then saying that I thought it was sexist or racist and weight-ist that they put Frenchie (Davis) off and not Antonella (Barba)," O'Donnell said. Fox responded to O'Donnell's charges...

  A few minutes ago, Bill O'Reilly spent the first two segments of his Fox News Channel program, The O'Reilly Factor, condemning the upcoming Fox Network interview program featuring O.J. Simpson's quasi-confession to murdering Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. O'Reilly's guests criticized Simpson, Judith Regan, Harper-Collins Books, and the Fox Network. O'Reilly also criticized Simpson and threatened to personally stop buying any products of companies sponsoring the program. However, O'Reilly himself did not criticize Regan by name, nor did he himself make a single negative remark about the Fox Network for broadcasting the interview. Also conspicuous in its absence...

In an unusual move, Sen. Clinton's staff immediately and publicly condemned the book. Quietly, they also have been contacting television programs to keep Klein off major shows. So far, the TV censorship effort has worked, with major networks such as Fox, MSNBC, NBC and others canceling scheduled appearances with Klein. For example, after Fox News canceled three scheduled appearances with Klein on its top-rated shows, Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti claimed to the New York Times that interest in Klein's book at her network had "been tepid at best." She also said that after Klein's interview on "Hannity & Colmes," the...

LOS ANGELES (ZNBS News Release) -- The Fox Network has blown the cover off of Muslim "sleeper cells" operating in America and Europe. Based on details obtained from terrorists held at Camp X-Ray, the methods of these Arab and Muslim sleeper cells have been exposed. Fox has translated these details to one of its television shows, the acclaimed and award-winning "24" series. In this series, a Muslim family has been establishing itself as a normal suburban family, a technique described in debriefings of Camp X-Ray terrorist detainees. The sleeper cell technique was developed in the Soviet Union and emulated by...

In terms of brilliant television casting, it certainly would have trumped the addition of Don Knotts to "Three's Company" in 1979. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. Sen. Rick Santorum won't be joining Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie for a new season of the pair's Fox TV series "The Simple Life"... Fox contacted the offices of Santorum and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, of Illinois, to inquire about possible internships for the dynamically dim duo... In pitching the idea to Santorum's office, associate producer Ryan Crow suggested that Hilton and Richie could perform administrative tasks, help enact certain policy reforms or...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Critics may roll their eyes at Fox television's upcoming dwarf-dating contest "The Littlest Groom," but the head of the advocacy group Little People of America says the show could end up giving his members a boost. While some audiences may snicker at the spectacle of a dozen dwarf women competing with average-sized females for the affections of a 4-foot-5-inch bachelor, LPA president Matt Roloff said the Fox show may benefit people of short stature by depicting them as regular folks "just being themselves." In other words, a person's size doesn't matter. "Yes, the radio jocks will...

WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV. Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war. He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams. The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met...

<p>January 22, 2004 -- FOX beat out the broadcast networks in covering a news event for the first time in its history.</p> <p>Fox's coverage Tuesday of President Bush's State of the Union Address, anchored by Shepard Smith, snared 9.2 million viewers from 9 to 10:30 p.m. - compared to NBC (9 million), CBS (8.5 million) and ABC (7.2 million), according to Nielsen data.</p>

Foxa Americana By Rogel Alper America's Fox News network has been demonstrating since the start of the war in Iraq an amazing lesson in media hypocrisy. The anchors, reporters and commentators unceasingly emphasize that the war's goal is to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. The frequency, consistence and passion with which they use that lame excuse, and the fact that nearly no other reasons are mentioned shows that this is the network's editorial policy. The American flag lies in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, while the logo accompanying the programming is Operation Iraqi...

The Simpsons -- Who turned America's best TV show into a cartoon?By Chris Suellentrop At some point during its 14-year run, The Simpsons turned into one of the best sitcoms on television—and that's not a compliment. At one time, to call The Simpsons the best show on Fox would have been a vast understatement; to say it was the best sitcom on television would have been inadequate; and to describe it as the greatest TV show in history would (and still does) minimize its importance by limiting its cultural impact to the small screen. Who knows when it happened—maybe it...