[UPDATE: 8:34 pm, 12/13/07 10 -- Wal-Mart is pulling the money pot pink panties from its stores. Jill Zimon Miller reports that FOX News jumped on the story and gave the chain a wedgie. Parents were complaining. JMZ's report is curious about the fate of the undies: Will they wind up someplace where people can't read the words?]
CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Jill Miller Zimon has the lowdown on the low down discount chain that is selling pink panties with "Who needs credit cards" emblazoned over the nether region. Outraged or offended? She has links to file complaints at the chain's corporate headquarters.
Jill says the panties are rude and crude and flash an inappropriate message for young females and agrees: "There's nothing quite like telling adolescent girls that they don't need to worry about finances since they have their very own moneypot between their legs."
Showing posts with label FOX News Channel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOX News Channel. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes: Drops Big $$$ On Ohio Univesity
ATHENS, Ohio (TDB) -- Roger Ailes cut his teeth as a broadcaster at Ohio University's college station, WOUB, during the early 1960s. Now the former Republican media consultant and current FOX News Chairman and CEO has dropped a large financial donation on his alma mater. Ailes' gift will will help build a new technologically advanced newsroom on the Athens campus. His dough will be used to train future journalists -- and there are no strings about their politics. Ailes, who is from Warren, Ohio, is credited with launching the FOX News Channel in 1996 and led it past CNN in 2002, a ratings triumph that has made conservative-leaning FOX the nation's No. 1 news channel.
Ailes' fondness for OU is matched by his generosity. Although the size of the donation was not revealed, it was described as substantial. He also funds scholarships. The 67-year-old OU television and radio major credits the shool with making him the foxy fellow he is today.
"Ohio University ignited my interest in broadcasting, which became my lifetime career. The education I received there gave me the opportunity to take on my first managerial responsibilities and provided early lessons in leadership. I'm happy to contribute to a great university."
Ailes' fondness for OU is matched by his generosity. Although the size of the donation was not revealed, it was described as substantial. He also funds scholarships. The 67-year-old OU television and radio major credits the shool with making him the foxy fellow he is today.
"Ohio University ignited my interest in broadcasting, which became my lifetime career. The education I received there gave me the opportunity to take on my first managerial responsibilities and provided early lessons in leadership. I'm happy to contribute to a great university."
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Ohio Student Journalist Converted: Watches FOX News, Becomes Conservative
CLEVELAND (TDB) -- A staff writer at Cleveland State University's student newspaper, the Cleveland Stater, discloses she abandoned liberalism and became a political conservative after watching FOX News on cable television. Jennifer Spike said she is now a full-blown right winger and does not regret her conversion in the slightest. She finds that being conservative on a college campus can be tough because it is not the prevailing political ideology.
Spike says she sticks up for her new set of political principles, and that the term conservative is viewed with disgust among the vast majority of students. She makes no bones that FOX snared her with a barrage of broadcast reports that came with a political slant. She does not think the media -- right or left -- is interested in balanced stories.
"I always viewed conservatives as stiff, old, rich men stuck in their ways, who didn't care about problems facing the middle class. Then, one evening about a year ago, I happened to switch on the FOX News network, notoriously known for its conservative reputation. As I began to watch I realized something: Maybe these old stiffs really do make sense. I began to do more research, and since then my political views have taken a shift towards the right."
She adds:
"Now I would like to take an opportunity to debunk some common stereotypes when I reveal myself as a right-winger. I am not a product of a white collar family. I'm not a member of the NRA, and I'm not a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh, nor do I support all of the decisions of President Bush. I certainly don't consider myself an expert among political affairs. Actually, I admit I'm a newbie and that I have a lot to learn. But I now know the importance of challenging what professors, society and the media throw at me. Some of it is garbage and some of it is good stuff, but it is up to me to figure that out."
Spike says she sticks up for her new set of political principles, and that the term conservative is viewed with disgust among the vast majority of students. She makes no bones that FOX snared her with a barrage of broadcast reports that came with a political slant. She does not think the media -- right or left -- is interested in balanced stories.
"I always viewed conservatives as stiff, old, rich men stuck in their ways, who didn't care about problems facing the middle class. Then, one evening about a year ago, I happened to switch on the FOX News network, notoriously known for its conservative reputation. As I began to watch I realized something: Maybe these old stiffs really do make sense. I began to do more research, and since then my political views have taken a shift towards the right."
She adds:
"Now I would like to take an opportunity to debunk some common stereotypes when I reveal myself as a right-winger. I am not a product of a white collar family. I'm not a member of the NRA, and I'm not a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh, nor do I support all of the decisions of President Bush. I certainly don't consider myself an expert among political affairs. Actually, I admit I'm a newbie and that I have a lot to learn. But I now know the importance of challenging what professors, society and the media throw at me. Some of it is garbage and some of it is good stuff, but it is up to me to figure that out."
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Cincy Newspaper Wanted FOX News Approach: Quoted Channel's Slogan In Firing Reporter
CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Fired Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Jim McNair received an official e-mail termination notice today that cited three trademarked words for his dismissal -- he wasn't "fair and balanced" in his journalistic endeavors. That slogan is claimed by FOX News Channel, which registered the phrase as a U.S. trademark in 1998. It was coined by Rupert Murdoch in the early 1990s to set his conservative broadcasting network apart from the rest of the nation's media, which he considered far too liberal.
Ohio Democrats have long viewed the Enquirer as hostile territory. Now they seem to have gotten some proof. They may want to start reading the online versions of papers in Toledo, Cleveland or Columbus for news that doesn't have to be "fair and balanced" a la FOX. Trustworthy and reliable would probably do the trick. Or accurate. Or let the chips fall where they will.
The use of the phrase, which has become a conservative touchstone, implies that McNair was too progressive, or didn't share the conservative traditions of the Enquirer -- a newspaper that supported Republican right winger Ken Blackwell during an unsuccessful run for governor in 2006. Fair and balanced is a high-profile combination of words, a phrase whose ownership FOX has battled Al Franken in the courts to legally protect. Was the use of the phrase calculated to portray McNair as occupying the left side of the ideological chasm, while the newspaper's bosses held down the right?
McNair, who received a disciplinary warning letter last May that he had "malicious intent and/or disdain for the community," was ousted Thurday from his job after six years on the Cincinnati daily's business desk. On Tuesday, he received an e-mail from the paper's vice president for human resources that used the FOX slogan as a reason for the dismissal.
". . . your employment is terminated based on a pattern of behavior . . . specifically, you had exhibited disrespect for your editors and colleagues and had a lack of understanding about the goals and mission of the Enquirer. In light of recent complaints, our confidence that you could improve in this regard -- to report in a fair and balanced manner -- was severely shaken."
It is not too far a jump to believe that McNair was terminated because the Enquirer wanted him to be a FOX clone.
McNair said he seldom covered politics, but did try to write about subjects that included polluting factories, builders who sold shoddily built homes, or pocketed downpayments and didn't deliver houses, and workers who were contaminated on the job by carcenogenic chemicals.
"These are the real victims here. They aren't going to have a paper here to champion their cause. Nobody outside the company has complained to me about a fair and balanced report. I didn't do politics. I can't be pigeon-holed that easily. You know, I didn't know about the (FOX) trademark, but I knew it was the FOX slogan. I didn't know the Enquirer was using it, too."
Editor and Publisher, a journalism trade publication has more on the firing today and quotes the newspaper's termination e-mail. But the story didn't pick up on the use of the FOX New Channel slogan.
Ohio Democrats have long viewed the Enquirer as hostile territory. Now they seem to have gotten some proof. They may want to start reading the online versions of papers in Toledo, Cleveland or Columbus for news that doesn't have to be "fair and balanced" a la FOX. Trustworthy and reliable would probably do the trick. Or accurate. Or let the chips fall where they will.
The use of the phrase, which has become a conservative touchstone, implies that McNair was too progressive, or didn't share the conservative traditions of the Enquirer -- a newspaper that supported Republican right winger Ken Blackwell during an unsuccessful run for governor in 2006. Fair and balanced is a high-profile combination of words, a phrase whose ownership FOX has battled Al Franken in the courts to legally protect. Was the use of the phrase calculated to portray McNair as occupying the left side of the ideological chasm, while the newspaper's bosses held down the right?
McNair, who received a disciplinary warning letter last May that he had "malicious intent and/or disdain for the community," was ousted Thurday from his job after six years on the Cincinnati daily's business desk. On Tuesday, he received an e-mail from the paper's vice president for human resources that used the FOX slogan as a reason for the dismissal.
". . . your employment is terminated based on a pattern of behavior . . . specifically, you had exhibited disrespect for your editors and colleagues and had a lack of understanding about the goals and mission of the Enquirer. In light of recent complaints, our confidence that you could improve in this regard -- to report in a fair and balanced manner -- was severely shaken."
It is not too far a jump to believe that McNair was terminated because the Enquirer wanted him to be a FOX clone.
McNair said he seldom covered politics, but did try to write about subjects that included polluting factories, builders who sold shoddily built homes, or pocketed downpayments and didn't deliver houses, and workers who were contaminated on the job by carcenogenic chemicals.
"These are the real victims here. They aren't going to have a paper here to champion their cause. Nobody outside the company has complained to me about a fair and balanced report. I didn't do politics. I can't be pigeon-holed that easily. You know, I didn't know about the (FOX) trademark, but I knew it was the FOX slogan. I didn't know the Enquirer was using it, too."
Editor and Publisher, a journalism trade publication has more on the firing today and quotes the newspaper's termination e-mail. But the story didn't pick up on the use of the FOX New Channel slogan.
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