Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 07, 2010
February 06, 2010
February 08, 2010
Transcript:
Roland: "Went out to Dover to honor fallen. No one there to cover me even though I have book out. Lib media bias shameful. Taped Larry King today. Didn't know Larry is just an avatar, that real Larry retired in '02, living quietly in Scottsdale. More cuts @Fox, shutting down 5 Tweet feeds. These r real people w/families, all of them fair, balanced. Just had drink with fired Fox Tweeters. Notice they all talk in short, choppy bursts. Sound impaired. Hello, workers' comp! To put human face on cuts, the fired Tweet bureau chief fought to keep MY feed up. Frank somebody. Well done, Frank! Fox now threatening to cut my feed if not monetized [advt: Shamwow sells self!] Feed cut, dream dead. The time you spent following me is gone, lost forever, carrying you closer to death..." Boss: Ahem. Roland: "Tired not to abuse privilege. Peace." The final Tweets of Roland Hedley.
Ravenswing almost 15 years ago
Lies, and the lying liars who tell them! FOX!
Rodney99 almost 15 years ago
Shredded Tweet?
wcorvi almost 15 years ago
I don’t have a TV - what’s Fox?
wcorvi almost 15 years ago
I don’t have a TV - what’s Fox?
Skeezeeks almost 15 years ago
Oblivious to the last tweet.
pearlandpeach almost 15 years ago
out the door and on the dole: sorry Hedley
Frodo59 almost 15 years ago
…thankful for the end of Hedley’s tweets…
joefish25 almost 15 years ago
Fox is a news network that regularly reports news events from a conservative standpoint. They are criticized by lefties as not being a news network but merely the mouthpiece for the right. Righties claim the network is actually fair and balanced and also that it is the “most trusted name in news,” which is only true if you skew statistics. In reality, it is a news network that one needs to watch for one’s self to see what is going on. If you think it is odd that in the USA we have tv networks that report news from a point of view, then we agree. If you think that bias in the news reporting is for you, then, have a nice life… then again, I am certain that if someone disagrees with my assessment I will be labeled a fool or worse. It’s the price you pay for living in the usa these days… however, when the emperor is naked someone has to say it out loud. happy viewing!
WaitingMan almost 15 years ago
Great line from last night’s SNL: “This is Fox News. Look out behind you!” Keith Olbermann has the best name for them; Clusterfox.
notinksanymore almost 15 years ago
I don’t get it. Isn’t tweeting free? Why would they cut it off?
phydeaux44 almost 15 years ago
Thank God for BBC World News!
joefish25 almost 15 years ago
plus4, well said!
FireMedic almost 15 years ago
Fox the network owned by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch who managed to get a Republican controlled congress the change the laws on foreign ownership of US media outlets. He also owns the family values publication the NY Post as well as the Sun tabloid in England famous for its page 3 girls. Rupert and the Fox entertainment branch also developed such family values shows as The Bachelor and all the spin-offs.
Alabama Al almost 15 years ago
One observation I’ve made in life: Those who believe Fox News actually is “fair and balanced” tend to also think the strip “Mallard Fillmore” is witty.
chaco35 almost 15 years ago
I so agree with Doctor Toon
pearlandpeach almost 15 years ago
Mallard is wittty/funny/pithy. but I don’t watch Fox……
so ?
jaiel almost 15 years ago
RIP !! I liked the tweets they were funn. Nade me feel like I had twitter which I dont.
AKHenderson Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Hedley is the Jimmy Thudpucker of journalism.
seablood almost 15 years ago
Fox is not tilted toward the Right. It is tilted toward the Oligarchy made up of corporate interests and ultra rich people. Of course you might think of THAT as the Right, but the Right merely ( and stupidly) takes orders from the Oligarchy.It’s not the same thing.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 15 years ago
On the season opener to “24” Jack Bauers Grandaughter complains that the show on TV is boring. It was of course Fox News & he promptly switched it to cartoons
JP Steve Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Seablood, right on!!
Wildcard24365 almost 15 years ago
My favorite Clusterfox story was a few weeks ago when Scott Brown was announced the winner of the Massachusetts Senate race: I was at the gym where I can watch Faux and CNN, side-by-side. Faux was providing an extensive in-depth analysis (NAAARF!!!) showing how the rise in the S&P seemed to correlate to Obama’s decline in approval rating. Their conclusion: investors are more confident, knowing Obama is less able to push his “socialist agenda.” Meanwhile, CNN was airing news of Scott Brown’s win (the one that broke the Democratic “super majority”) while, get this, the stock-ticker was showing the Dow index had just dropped 199 points.
“Fair and balanced…” Pull the other one!
MisngNOLA almost 15 years ago
I agree with most posters about Fox not being fair and balanced as they claim. What I don’t see pointed out is that they are merely the counterpoint to CNN, MSNBC, and the other liberally-biased and just as “fair and balanced” networks. If the other outlets had merely reported news and not editorialized it in the first place, Fox would have no audience. Instead, raging sycophants like Keith “I couldn’t do sports, and I do news even worse” Olberman spend time fawning like little girls over the President and his wife, and the rest of the time they spend lobbing epithets and insults at Fox. How much news do you actually get from MSNBC’s folks like Olberman? As for me, I watch no network news save that from BBC World news, because they all create a negative pressure area.