FOX "News" Tamps Down on Unprofessional Behavior

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Uhhh. . .yeah, right. Listen, I know I've been hitting the FOX "News" stuff a little hard lately. And it's probably lazy blogging, since making fun of them is like shooting fish in a barrel. But this one takes the cake. In order for the employees at the channel to live up to the Vice-President's stern rebuke, they'd have to completely change their format and direction.

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Internal Fox News Email Addresses “Standards” After 9/12 Flap

Mediaite has obtained an email from Fox News Vice President of News and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon to the staff of the D.C. bureau, in the wake of an FNC producer caught pumping up the crowd during the 9/12 tea party broadcast.

The email, with the subject line “standards,” addresses the controversy head-on: “We do not cheerlead for one cause or another,” writes Sammon. . .

Read more at: Mediaite

CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls out FOX "News" For Lying. . .AGAIN

OK, so it is not difficult to prove that FOX "News" lies. They offer up so much ammunition. It's also not difficult to offer forth examples with transcripts and video. Media Matters for America does it every day. But who are you gonna believe, FOX "News" or your lyin' eyes?

Rick Sanchez is a host that I'm not overly familiar with, outside of a few stellar online video clips. And here is another one of them doing something rare for cable news: calling a blatant lie a lie. The weirdest part is, for "FOX Fans," this will prove nothing. If I get any responses to this post, I'll predict that they have zero to do with what Sanchez said. They'll pick apart CNN and Sanchez, support FOX "News" and ignore the lie. It's what they always do.