Jon Stewart: Times Square Bomber, Anti-gay Hooker Hirer and More!

This is a great clip from Thursday's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, with Stewart skewering several different targets. The perfect thing to pass the time, while you wait patiently for me to return from my errands. Ha! Seriously, I'll only be gone a little while! Sheesh. . .

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Is FOX "Business" Channel Killing the Market?

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I don't know diddly about the stock market, so I will defer to the people at News Corpse, who have an interesting theory. . .

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Fox Business Network Jinxes The Markets

Murdoch’s machinations of late have not met with the success to which he is normally accustomed. Fox News is presently the slowest growing cable news network. FBN got off to a pathetic crawl. And I wonder if anyone else has noticed this sign of the Apocalypse: When the Fox Business Network launched on October 15, 2007, the Dow Jones had just hit its all-time high. Since then the markets have collapsed, diving 15% in the four months since FBN’s debut.

Read the whole post at: News Corpse

FOX "Business" Channel Already Distorting

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Is anybody surprised that the new FOX "Business" Channel is already distorting their reporting? Did anyone think it wouldn't? I have no first-hand knowledge since our cable company does not carry FBC. But in this instance, I'm willing to not give them the benefit of the doubt. . .

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Fox says retail lobbyist "didn't disclose" identity.

. . .Fox Business Network interviewed an "online shopper" named Peter Perweiler who turned out to be the marketing director for the National Retail Federation. The NRF says it organized a media event so reporters could interview "real" shoppers. Silicon Alley Insider got one explanation from the NRF. We got another, very different explanation, from Fox News. . .

Read the rest at: ValleyWag