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Infoshop.org is calling for a boycott of companies that advertise on the Fox News Channel. Fox News is the main purveyor of the right wing agenda in America, which has had a deleterious effect on American politics. Fox News presents itself falsely as a bastion of "fair and balanced" journalism and as an alternative to the "liberal media."

Infoshop.org is calling for people to boycott products and services associated with companies that do business with this right wing cable channel. We seek the removal of Fox News from cable services until radical, anarchist, and left wing voices are allowed on television.
A GUIDE TO FOX NEWS DOUBLESPEAK

Fox News spends a lot of effort to convince viewers that it is accurate, fair, balanced, and unbiased. Not only is Fox News none of those things, but it frequently engages in Orwellian doublespeak in order to pursue its right wing, pro-government agenda. The following phrases are a few examples of the Fox News Doublespeak Lexicon:

"fair and balanced": A small book could be written about how the content of Fox News is not fair or balanced, in fact, Al Franken currently has a bestseller which precisely does that.

"nest of terrorists": Not only is the use of the word "terrorists" a prejudicial term that has no place in journalism, but the use of the word "nests" implies that the so-called terrorists aren't human.

"Operation Iraqi Freedom": This phrase was Orwellian enough when the Bush administration adopted it to sugarcoat its invasion of Iraq, but journalists should know better than to use this phrase to describe the war in Iraq.
Boycott List

The following companies advertise their products and services on the Fox News Channel.

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Version 1.3 / Last updated: October 21, 2003

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Primary advertisers

Earthlink
Gateway Computers
Honda
Orbitz
Shell Petroleum

Other advertisers

Adobe
American Express
AMEX
AstraZeneca
Avaya
Ameriquest Mortgage
ATT
Bayer
Boeing
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
CDW
Circuit City
Direct TV
Edward Jones Investments
ELoan.com
Ensure
Evergreen Investments
Farmers Insurance
GlaxoSmithKline
IBM
Infiniti
Johnson and Johnson Inc. (Aveeno)
L.L.Bean
MCI
Mens Wearhouse
Microsoft
Olay
Priceline.com
Procter & Gamble (Swiffer)
Suburu
Time Warner Cable
Toyota
UPS
Verizon Wireless
Wachovia
Walgreens
WebMD
Xerox
XM Satellite Radio

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Endorsers

Yes! You can endorse this boycott. Please send an e-mail to chuck [at] infoshop.org to have your name or the name of your organization added to the endorser list.

Groups

RAG (Roots Action Group) (Erie, PA)

Individuals

Kris Warner (Erie, PA)
Celine Grenier (Capitola, California)
Jon Fatula (Capitola, California)
Donald Minasian, managing partner, Five M Partnership
do1st@aol.com
Tony Tribby (Alexandria, VA)
Yvgrvny - SoutheastAutonomousZone.(S.E.A.Z) (Melb. Australia)
bkbuy1@jacksonkramer.com
Purple Monkey Mafia/Cabal (Chicago)
Lynne H. Schultz
byung an (Austin, Texas)
Eric Butler, Torrance Ca
Heather Bruggman, Torrance Ca

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Outfoxed video

Outfoxed is a new video expose of Fox News. An in-depth look at the lies, spin, and right wing agenda of this "news" network.

Is Fox News Supporting the Troops or the President?
What fascinates me is how people at FOX News have convinced themselves that they're “supporting the troops” while supporting the U.S. government's continued occupation of Iraq. After all, no one can honestly still claim that the troops are dying for “freedom” because Saddam Hussein is now in jail. Moreover, according to Iraqi Shi'ite Sheik Raed Saadi, it is now Sunni and Shi'ite Muslems in Iraq who are uniting “to liberate” (his words) Iraq from the occupiers.

When a Canadian Insults Fox News, Them's [Expletive] Fighting Words!

American-Canadian relations have seen better days. Canada opposed the war in Iraq, and got a stern public lecture from the United States ambassador, Paul Cellucci, in return. The Bush administration does not like Canada's liberal drug policies. Trade disputes involving beef and softwood lumber continue to fester. But such frictions rarely get much television coverage at a time when Washington has a barrage of international problems to worry about.

Fox News. Not here yet, but already hilarious

I've never been called "a douche-nozzle" before. At least, not that I know about anyway. The insult came from one supporter of the Fox News Channel.

Who's afraid of the big bad Fox? Certainly not us
The Fox News slogan is "Fair and Balanced," which it obviously isn't. It's a tip-off that you're not supposed to take it seriously. The slogan is a joke, a raspberry blown at every other news channel. It's tongue-in-cheek.


Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

The Ratings Mirage
Reporting on the ratings rivalry between the Fox News Channel (FNC) and CNN is often misleading – and almost always over-hyped. "Fox Tops CNN as Choice for Cable News," declared one typical headline in the Chicago Tribune. "Fox News Channel Continues to Crush CNN," reported Knight Ridder in a column comparing the rivalry to a party primary titled, "Fox News Channel is winning the Nielsen caucuses." Last August, the New York Times Magazine declared, looking back at the period of the Iraq invasion, "Fox was – and still is – trouncing CNN in the ratings."

Fox News and the Masters of War
In the first days after the events known as 9/11, I wrote a piece that appeared in a view different journals and websites that was titled "The Terrorism of War." In that piece I mentioned that although there was no link between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the Islamic terrorists, the US "war on terror" would probably wind up creating one. Recent events in Iraq and Madrid seem to bear this prediction out. In short, the US war machine has created the situation it described, leaving the world with an invigorated collection of groups committing acts of terror against civilians in Iraq and elsewhere and an armed resistance movement opposed to the US and its diminishing allies occupying the countryside of Iraq.

Bill O'Reilly's "Apology": Still Spinning in the 'No Spin Zone'
Viewers of ABC's Good Morning America saw something very unusual earlier this month: Fox News Channel's star host Bill O'Reilly admitted he was wrong about something. Sort of.

Fox News: The inside story
When veteran television journalist Chris Wallace announced this week that he was leaving ABC for Fox News, reporters asked him whether he was concerned about trading in his objectivity for Fox's rightward slant. "I had the same conception a lot of people did about Fox News, that they have a right-wing agenda," Wallace told The Washington Post. But after watching Fox closely, Wallace said, he had decided that the network suffered from an "unfair rap," and that its reporting is, in fact, "serious, thoughtful and even-handed."

Doh! Murdoch's Fox News in a spin over 'The Simpsons' lawsuit
Serious news is no laughing matter. Especially at Fox News Channel. That, at least, is the allegation of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, who has accused Rupert Murdoch's "fair and balanced" news channel of threatening legal action after a particularly pointed episode poked fun at Fox.

O'Reilly "Responds" to FAIR
By FAIR

Though never mentioning FAIR by name, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly responded to a recent FAIR action alert correcting statements the host made about the L.A. Times and its coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Study hits war views held by Fox fans
By David Folkenflik - Baltimore Sun Staff

Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. "When evidence surfaces that a significant portion of the public has just got a hole in the picture ... this is a potential problem in the way democracy functions," says Clay Ramsay, research director for the Washington-based Program on International Policy Attitudes, which studies foreign-policy issues.

The Most Biased Name in News
Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt
(Seth Ackerman) FAIR
When it comes to Fox News Channel, conservatives don't feel the need to "work the ref." The ref is already on their side. Since its 1996 launch, Fox has become a central hub of the conservative movement's well-oiled media machine. Together with the GOP organization
and its satellite think tanks and advocacy groups, this network of fiercely partisan outlets--such as the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative talk-radio shows like Rush Limbaugh's--forms a highly effective right-wing echo chamber where GOP-friendly news stories can be promoted, repeated and amplified. Fox knows how to play this game better than anyone.

Fibbing It Up at Fox
by Dale Steinreich (LewRockwell.com)
Since the Iraq conflict began on March 20, Fox News has been on a mission to legitimize it. One problem for Fox's protracted apologia is that despite promises of evidence of current weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by the Bush Administration, the evidence has been ambiguous at best. Unfortunately for the network, I've been keeping a scratch diary of their reports since the war began.

Weapons Of Mass Stupidity
Fox News hits a new lowest common denominator

Fox News is an oxymoron and Cheech and Chong would have made a more credible team of war correspondents than Geraldo Rivera and Ollie North. Neither Saturday Night Live nor the 1973 film Network, Paddy Chayefsky's corrosive satire of TV news, could even approach the comic impact of Geraldo embedded, or of Fox's pariah parade, its mothball fleet of experts who always turn out to be disgraced or indicted Republican refugees. If Ed Meese, Newt Gingrich and Elliott Abrams couldn't fill your sails with mirth, you could count on the recently deposed Viceroy of Virtue and High Regent of Rectitude, my old schoolmate Blackjack Bill Bennett.
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Websites

Agitproperties
FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Media Matters for America
Oreilly-sucks.com

Resources

FAIR on Bill O'Reilly
News Corp / Fox
The Most Biased Name in News

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