Faux News ran half million dollars in free teabagging ads

[Popeye]

Lookee here..the "fair and balanced" Faux News giving free advertising for the "non partisan" tea parties....what a combination. Unfortunately for them, their little gambit has fooled no one.

From April 6 to April 15, Fox News aired at least 107 commercial promotions for their coverage of the tea party protests that took place on April 15. As Media Matters for America has documented, Fox News aggressively promoted the events in recent weeks, encouraging viewers to get involved with tea party protests across the country. Indeed, Fox News repeatedly described them as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties." On April 15, four of the network's hosts broadcast live from various tea parties.

Of the 107 ads, 58 were 10-second spots promoting a specific Fox News program that would be covering the events. The programs promoted in the 10-second spots were: Your World with Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. Of those five, only The O'Reilly Factor did not offer live coverage of the protests from one of the tea party sites. Forty-nine of the ads aired were 30-second spots that promoted Fox News' "fair and balanced network coverage -- live" of the tea parties.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904170011?f=h_latest


Details of the free tea party advertising by Faux News..

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pDAJDTd6f2_M29TsVvobfIw

 

[GenSeneca]

How much free advertising did Obama get from the MSM?

Does the name George Soros sound familiar?

Spiteful tirades of bigotry and accusations made from a position of extreme hypocrisy...

Very "Progressive" of you Popeye.

 

[XCALIDEM]

How much free advertising did Obama get from the MSM?

Does the name George Soros sound familiar?

Spiteful tirades of bigotry and accusations made from a position of extreme hypocrisy...

Very "Progressive" of you Popeye.

I was going to say the same...

 

[Mr.Dysfunctional]

How much free advertising did Obama get from the MSM?

Does the name George Soros sound familiar?

Spiteful tirades of bigotry and accusations made from a position of extreme hypocrisy...

Very "Progressive" of you Popeye.

Dittos on that statement !! COme on popeye .. How blind are you going to appear to be?!?! While not all of the activists protested in the best way possible , choosing to instead attacks the wrong things to get their point across , the fact still remains people are PISSED about government over-spending... and you nor shaman can show that we won't all be paying for this over-spending by our government. It is not the government's job to save failing companies from their own stuipdity ... not to mention that even thou obama is stouting jobs created out of the stimulus , it still remains in 3 to 4 years nearly all of those jobs will be gone again after their projects are completed.

 

[Andy]

How much free advertising did Obama get from the MSM?

Does the name George Soros sound familiar?

Spiteful tirades of bigotry and accusations made from a position of extreme hypocrisy...

Very "Progressive" of you Popeye.

I agree completely. Hypocrisy and Popeye go hand in hand.