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Fox News zings CNN and MSNBC on holiday card, just like last year (Portrays viewers as sheep)
Yahoo News -Cutline ^ | December 21, 2011 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 01/11/2012 9:40:22 AM PST by opentalk


(Fox News)

In what's becoming an annual media tradition, Fox News used its holiday card to wish friends and family well this holiday season--and take a swipe at CNN and MSNBC.

The front of Fox News' 2011 card--distributed to media journalists including this one--features a cartoon fox leading ABC, NBC and CBS in a sheep-sled race, with the jockeys for MSNBC and CNN watching from the sidelines. (The idea is that Fox News, the top-rated cable news network, is so far ahead, it's now competing against the the Big Three networks.)

Representatives for CNN and MSNBC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Inside, a poem, (to be sung to the tune of "Joy to the World"): ...


(Fox Business)

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fox; msm

1 posted on 01/11/2012 9:40:28 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Doesn’t that make FOX the biggest of the main stream media?


2 posted on 01/11/2012 9:44:04 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: opentalk

Are they implying they drive the sheep? Looks like it to me.


3 posted on 01/11/2012 9:46:09 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: WKUHilltopper

That’s what I see: Fox is slapping their own viewers.


4 posted on 01/11/2012 9:57:38 AM PST by Cyber Liberty ("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." --Winston Churchill)
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To: opentalk

Not so smart....so FOX is the Leader of all the SHEEP? sheesh....where is creativity these days?


5 posted on 01/11/2012 10:02:07 AM PST by goodnesswins (Adversity makes us bitter or better.)
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To: goodnesswins

They have the Dumb sheep in the Fox Business card also.


6 posted on 01/11/2012 10:06:50 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Yep that is how they feel about you....


7 posted on 01/11/2012 11:47:47 AM PST by Sprite518
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To: opentalk

We ARE sheep...we vote and think exactly the way the MSM want us too.


8 posted on 01/11/2012 11:53:38 AM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: opentalk

I didn’t take it the the sheep were the viewers but the news people chasing the same story with the networks behind them.....


9 posted on 01/11/2012 12:30:19 PM PST by chris_bdba
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