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According to the Kerry for President campaign, News Corp. President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. News Corp. owns Fox News Channel. That would put Chernin in the ranks of some other Kerry-supporting media executives, including Barry Diller, Kirk Kerkorian (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) and Harvey and Robert Weinstein, who backed the release of Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. The Chernin endorsement was among that of 200 business leaders announced Wendesday, with Chernin attending a Wall Street to Main Street summit held by Kerry in Iowa. The move didn't appear to surprise News Corp....

The offices of Robert Greenwald Productions occupy a slightly rundown, horseshoe-shaped building in Los Angeles, just down the street from Culver Studios, the legendary movie facility where ''Gone With the Wind'' and ''Citizen Kane'' were filmed. Back in the day, the R.G.P. building, then a motel, was used by studio executives for liaisons with starlets and mistresses. Though no longer a Hollywood love nest, it still has a whiff of the illicit about it -- and still operates in the shadow of several corporate studios. Robert Greenwald, a 58-year-old film producer and director with a number of commercially respectable B-list...

<p>The "red states," where Americans overwhelmingly voted for President Bush in 2000, are often derisively called "flyover country" by the liberal elites. Flying over the nation is the only experience many of these people -- particularly those in the Eastern media establishment -- have of the heartland of America.</p>

Fox News Sunday to go Nightline one better. In reaction to Nightline's Friday night recitation of the names of every serviceman killed in Iraq, which Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace regretted had failed to provide "a context of what they went halfway around the world to do," the next edition of his show, he announced Sunday, will feature "a list of what we've accomplished there through the blood, sweat and, yes, lives of our military. We think the point is not just that those hundreds of troops died but what they died for." Wrapping up a panel discussion on...

<p>WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A member of the board of the National Press Foundation has resigned her position because of plans to present Fox News' Brit Hume with an award.</p> <p>Hume, the managing editor of Fox News and its chief Washington correspondent, was selected to receive the NPF's Taishoff Award as Broadcaster of the Year during a Feb. 19 awards dinner.</p>

<p>January 27, 2004 -- EXETER, N.H. - Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean. The tussle left Franken's trademark thick-rim glasses broken, but he said he was not injured.</p>

Between approximately 5:20 pm West Coast Time and 5:28, Fox News ran what must have been an unbroken string of at least EIGHT spots for "fair and balanced, no-hype" Fox News in a row. Just wondering if it's only me.

Fox News has jumped even further out in front of once dominant CNN, grabbing an astonishing 53 percent increase in viewership and drubbing the rival cable news network's 24 percent increase. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Nielson ratings show that Fox's viewership last year jumped from 667,00 to 1,023,000 while CNN scored a mere increase of 129,000 viewers, from 536,000 to 665,000. MSNBC did even worse, getting a 22 percent increase, from 263,000 to 320,000. Fox's increase in Prime Time viewership was even more dramatic, leaping by a staggering 45 percent as against CNN's 22 percent and MSNBC's 23...

Columnists' Corner "Free Republic to Protest Rather “Fair and Balanced” Award" By Bob Johnson This Monday the Museum of Television and Radio will be honoring Dan Rather at the Beverly Hills Hotel for his life long commitment to fair and balanced news reporting. That’s right. To anyone familiar with the CBS Evening News, this might come as a surprise. For decades, anyone to the right of John Kennedy is firmly aware of Rather’s outright bias and left wing manipulation of the news. The suggestion is at best, comical. Of course, the Museum of Television and Film can honor anyone...

<p>NEW YORK — A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel's request for an injunction to block humorist Al Franken's (search) new book, which uses the Fox slogan "fair and balanced."</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said Fox's claim was "without merit, both factually and legally."</p>

Scheer Version Make the Recall Count (Robert Scheer version) Republicans are running it as a shell game to distract from their misdeeds -- don't play along "Take him, he's yours." That was my initial response to the California recall, aimed at a conservative Democratic governor who often has betrayed the state's large progressive base of voters — the same folks who held their noses to elect and then reelect him. Nader Version Make the Recall Count (Ralph Nader Version) Californians have a real chance to snatch opportunity from a potential political debacle By Ralph Nader, Ralph Nader ran for president...

Brit Hume has the Voice. Perhaps you've heard it before. Deep and unwavering, at once assuring and assured, it instantly conveys authority. The Voice is one you might secretly long to hear from an airline pilot or surgeon. Hume is the chief Washington anchor for Fox News Channel, a calming presence for the cheeky ratings king of cable television news - a grown-up among fraternity boys.

SOURCES: FOX NEWS WINS WAR NIGHT; TOPS CNN IN RATINGS UPSET FOX NEWS TOOK THE CROWN WEDS NIGHT IN VIEWERSHIP, MAXING WITH AN 8.0 RATING... MORE... CNN MAX 6.9; MSNBC 4.3 DURING 10 PM ET HOUR, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... /// FROM 8 TO 11 PM ET: FOX AVG 6.3 [5.1 MILLION VIEWERS] TO CNN'S 5.3 [4.5 MILLION] TO MSNBC'S 3.3 [2.6 MILLION]...

Last night Bill O'Reilly went over laws being passed in California by liberals that were out of control. He cited several liberal laws in California that were crazy. He said that he would "unleash" on the conservatives in the next day or so. My question is...what laws are we pushing for that Bill is opposed to? Exactly what is it conservatives are doing that deserves an "unleashing" from Bill? One thing is for certain with Bill though. If you don't appear on his program. You are either a liar or a crook! About the only thing that I can think...

An anniversary no one at CNN is ready to celebrate Sunday January 26, 2003 By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) This week marks an anniversary the people at CNN would prefer is observed quietly very quietly. It was one year ago that Fox News Channel first beat CNN in the ratings, toppling the network that invented cable news and had enjoyed a monopoly for most of its existence. The pecking order not only hasn't changed since then, Fox's lead is wider. This month's unexpected resignation of CNN Chairman Walter Isaacson and the exit of six correspondents has...

''They missed the course in college that said socialism failed,'' Ailes says of Fox's competitors. ``They all believed the same things, and they reinforced their views by going to Upper East Side cocktail parties where they heard Dan thinks this and Tina thinks that all the time.'' Don't look now, but ''the world's news leader,'' as CNN likes to brag about itself, is no longer America's news leader. Those brash, mouthy, skinkickers over at Fox News Channel are winning the ratings war and winning it decisively. Born barely five years ago to open jeering from the television industry -- Fox...

Imagine a group of individuals who decide that they don't want the so-called "anti-war movement" protesters' lies and hatred of the USA to go unanswered on April 20th. Now imagine that they decided to hold a rally of their own, on the same day that the commies and leftists want to take over our nation's Capital, and these patriotic Americans announce plans to hold a press conference regarding their rally. The press conference, hosted by members of the DC Chapter of Free Republic and Rally4America.org - and including several of the speakers at the upcoming rally, was held this morning...