TV News Review

Original reviews and critiques of TV News by a couple of TV news junkies.

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Entries from December 2007

Praise for Page, during F&F News Failure

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

This blog would like to give Page Hopkins a big thumbs up and “Way to go!” for doing the right thing, and journalistically correct thing, this morning on ‘Fox & friends 1st’ as she read the news and included the name of Matthew Murray while updating the new information on the Colorado shootings.

Page Hopkins bucked the trend on F&F […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

‘Fox & friends’ Subverts Their Journalistic Integrity

December 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The slogan of Fox News is “We Report. You Decide.”
 The new slogan for ‘Fox & friends’ seems to be “We Obfuscate. You Wonder.”
Last week this blog criticized F&F host Gretchen Carlson for her refusal to say the name of Robert Hawkins, the Omaha mall shooter. Because Hawkins had said in a note he left behind […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

Gretchen Carlson Refuses to Report the News

December 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

 The slogan at Fox News is ‘We Report. You Decide”, but on Thursday morning’s ‘Fox & Friends” show host Gretchen Carlson refused to report the news.
When the breaking news story of the day was being reported, the Wednesday mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, Carlson refused to say the name of the shooter, Robert Hawkins. She […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News