Truth in Humor: Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/afraid_to_watch_the_news_millions_turn_to_fox_2011 0320/

[CosmicCowboy]

Well at least we now know where Boutons gets his news...

[Agloco]

“Things are so bad in the world right now, many people are afraid to watch the news,” says psychologist Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, who studies the relationship between news consumption and stress. “For them, Fox News represents a welcome break from reality.”

A dig against Fox? :lol

[xrayzebra]

Guess we could always take a grand tour of Rio!

:king :toast :greedy

[boutons_deux]

"I see [Fox's corespondent] more times at breakfast than out on trips with government officials here. So for them to say and call this — to say they didn’t go and for them to call this and say this was government propaganda to hold us there as human shields when they didn’t even leave the hotel, it’s ridiculous.

Watch it:

Robertson also essentially called Fox’s team in Libya lazy and uninformed, saying they rarely leave the hotel to do reporting. He said his colleagues from other networks have the same regard for Fox."

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/21/cnn-fox-libya/

[boutons_deux]

How You End Up Bankrolling Fox News: News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch Weasel Out of Paying Taxes

From The Economist:

“…News Corporation and its subsidiaries paid only A$325m ($238m) in corporate taxes worldwide. In the same period, its consolidated pre-tax profits were A$5.4 billion. So News Corporation has paid an effective tax rate of only around 6%. By comparison, Disney, one of the world’s other media empires, paid 31%. Basic corporate-tax rates in Australia, America and Britain, the three main countries in which News Corporation operates, are 36%, 35% and 30% respectively.”

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150327