Fox admits only nine hours a day of programming is ‘news,’ Daily Show notes

By David Edwards
Friday, October 30th, 2009 -- 8:14 am
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foxnewslogo 300 Fox admits only nine hours a day of programming is news, Daily Show notes"Before the president began talking -- we don't know if there was a correlation -- the Dow was up 28. The Dow is now down 28 points. We'll keep our eyes focused on that." - Fox News Channel

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tore into Fox News Channel Thursday, highlighting the extent to which he believes it serves as a communications arm for the Republican Party, and alleging that the line between Fox's "opinion" programming and "news" programming aren't as disparate as the channel claims.

"According to Fox, the weekday news programming -- and this is according to Fox -- runs from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a total of nine newsy hours a day," Stewart notes. "Let me, for the audience here, help you out.

"The three hours you spend in the morning with Fox and Friends, not news," Stewart continues. "Your 4:00 to 5:00 post tea Neil Cavuto break, not news. The 5:00 and 6:00 emotional whirlwind and therapy session that is Glenn Beck, not even close to news. O'Reilly, Hannity and then van Social Security tern, not news.

"This is according to Fox News," Stewart adds. "Those people, the ones featured in promos about how fair and balanced Fox News is are not news. These people, otherwise known as the only people you ever think of when you think about Fox News, are not news. They are Fox opinutainment."

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Stewart posits that Fox's opinion programs thus become a jumping off point for its newcasts.

"The Fox opinion guy's outrage becomes the 'some say' source for the news side," Stewart opines. "It's a perpetual re-revulsion machine."

"Do you think Fox News is biased?" he asks rhetorically. "Of course they are biased. Of course they are."

This following video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Oct. 29, 2009.

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  • DFW
    Fox Noise is definitely NOT in their last throes. The 15% of insane, intellectually incurious paranoid Americans that watch them still represent a fanatic following of 45 million people, and as people like that have little to contribute to society, they have a LOT of time to watch TV (like Obama's predecessor for example). And so they do. They see programming that is staged from start to finish, and truly believe they are getting informed. They WANT to believe it, and cannot be convinced otherwise. These are the ones who figure out ways to vote 12,653 times on some internet poll to make sure the country believes, as their guru Beck put it, that they surround us.
  • OldAtlantic
    Richmond gang rape is revolting. Watch the Kami Baker video.
  • surgethis
    Great segment by Stewart ... incredibly well presented. FOX is in the last throws of their propaganda life span ... they are basically exposed and they have ramped up their lies and distortions to cover it up ... It's a catch 22 for them ... their a wing of the far right wing fanatics that led us to an unjust war of choice and a financial collapse caused directly from banking corruption.
  • mmeflutterbye
    Thank Heaven for Jon Stewart! He's the only one who gives us the news. CNN & MSNBC jumped on the Fox Snooze bandwagon and came to their defense. What are we to think of them? They could have stayed quiet and given no opinion...stayed neutral. But they didn't. They practically pushed their own viewers to turn to Faux news! Insane!
  • imitalian
    you can spin it any way you want. There isn't ONE news organization that doesn't have their own agenda that is pushed though.

    MSNBC, CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, etc are all here to push their opinion on you whether it's through the way the report their news or lack thereof, or through their lineup of commentators. None of them are fair and none of them are trustworthy.

    It's unfortunate but true.
  • davidrvelasquez
    " Truth to Power?!!..... you're the White House, you're the power. Here's how it goes in the 'truth to power' statement.... it's your job to fuck up power, it's FOX's job to fuck up truth!" ...lol! ...nice one, Jon.
  • Satan
    Jon Stewart isn't news nor is retelling the same story every single day without any variation or anything new whatsoever about it. Does the world really revolve around Rush and Stewart and Coulter and other individuals in your 'spotlight'. Not even close, they're all just douchebags who are on t.v. and who are paid to be on t.v. and who generate money for hokey news organizations that perpetuate their propaganda for cash.

    "According to Fox, the weekday news programming -- and this is according to Fox -- runs from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a total of nine newsy hours a day," - He should admit as well that MSNBC is just more of the same type of propaganda, propaganda designed to perpetuate division, not inform. Plus they have about 16 hours a day of prison programming, what is MSNBC's obsession with prison? No 16 hours a day for the war? How can a network be the antithesis of FOX and carry the same line on the war, which is "say nothing unless supporting some troops".

    Phonies and liars. Fox and MSNBC, two sides of the same coin that are really there just to fluff the troops and fluff America's lust for war.

    That's why Raw considers a comedians comments news, otherwise we'd have stories on on of the comments made right here about fox, because truth be told, some of the comments here about Fox are funnier and more truthful than what Stewart has to say about it. The guy made cash when he had O'Reilly on and he'll do it again next time he has O'Reilly on. People only care cause they see his head on t.v..

    Although I guess in many way's he's a bit more the news than Raw.
  • Victor
    Dude are you freakin retarded or just don't know how to read? is some one reading this a loud for you?

    He raggs on MSNBC too and says they're biased.... get your head out of your A** it seems like your just trying to say things to seem like the have some semblance of intelligence... quit douching doucher...
  • GunTotinLiberal
    Satan
    as you and the dozen of so sock puppets you use dont care for the content at RS you are free to go someplace else.
    For real, it seems the only time you post here is to complain and whine like some little girl.
  • reuterspiel
    Fox news is the ministry of propaganda. Where's Goebles?
  • khudnut
    It takes a comedian to point out the absurd. I note: he hammered MSNBC too. But not as much. Which seems right, to me, since MSNBC is somewhat more mild in it's prejudice. Pretty fair and balanced satire. I think. J. Stewart ought to be welcomed on K.Olbermann's show as tonight's: "Bessst Person in the Woorrrlld!"
  • morepatience
    I'm surprised they claimed 9 hours. I could maybe see 3 or 4 hours being as 'newsy' as the other channels, but no way 9.
  • peterroman
    Every news channel,outlet,magazine,blog ,government,etc.censors.If only in the way that they leave things out or put them on the back page instead of the front page.To ridicule or satirize and expose that is the most effective way.Dont get angry coz they will only get angry in return which will turn people off.Jon Stewart and the team are doing a great and much appreciated work
  • dennycrane
    A judge in florida ruled that FAUX NEWS do not have to tell the truth. What makes you think they will "tell" the truth 9 hours a day? I wouldn't trust them to tell the time.
  • SPECOPS
    A legitimate news organization does not:
    Purposefully present stories out of context.
    Regularly declare "Victory" when a White House initative fails.
    Ignore a breaking news story that embarrasses the R epublican Party
    Routinely accuse the president of the United States of being lile Hitler
    Show 22 clips of health care reform opponents who attended town hall forums, and none of health reform supporters.
    Promote violent political rhetoric.

    FOX LIES.

    Msgt Moore/18D
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