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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 05:33 PM
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Fox News vs. MSNBC on programming around live events
In January, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow introduced the Hope for Haiti telethon in Olbermann's studio where he does Countdown weeknights at 8PM Eastern for MSNBC. They announced that their shows would start immediately after the two-hour telethon ran during the 8-10PM Eastern time slots.

However, Fox News would rather:
- Skip the Hope for Haiti telethon altogether and just show its regular primetime block of blatherers Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity
- Disrupt live coverage of a presidential news conference just to show Glenn Beck's show (happened yesterday I think)

Both Fox News and MSNBC claim to be non-partisan, legitimate news networks. But only one actually deserves that title. You know what it is. ;-)
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brewens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 05:42 PM
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1. Fox viewers are kind of like the Rain Man, except maybe the savant part.
Any disruption in their daily schedule causes them extreme stress. They actually can't handle not getting their daily Beck bunk.
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