A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from January 20, 2010
Faux News (Fox News nickname)

The Fox News Channel (headquartered in Manhattan) has often been criticized for conservative bias. The nickname “Faux News” has been used by some critics of Fox News since at least March 2001.
 
Other Fox News nicknames include “Fux News” (since July 2001), “Fox Spews”/“Faux Spews” (since November 2001), “Foxaganda” (since October 2003), “Fox Noise”/“Faux Noise” (since August 2004), “Fake News” (since September 2004), “Fixed News” (since October 2004), “Fox Comedy” (since December 2005), “Full Of Xenophobia” (since March 2007), “Fixed Noise” (since August 2007) and “FoxPAC” (since September 2009).

The more liberal MSNBC network has been nicknamed “PMSNBC” (since July 1996), “MSNBS” (since October 1996), “MessNBC” (since March 2002), “MSDNC” (since May 2005),  “MSLSD” (since September 2005), “MSLGBT” (since October 2008), “Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap” (since January 2010), “MSNBC-Pravda” (since August 2010), “More Stupid Nonsense Bull Crap” (since April 2013) and “MSNPC” (since June 2013).
 
   
Wikipedia: Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly referred to as Fox or Fox News, is a cable and satellite news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation. As of April 2009, it is available to 102 million households in the United States and further to viewers internationally, broadcasting primarily out of its New York City studios.
 
The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. The channel was launched on October 7, 1996 to 17 million cable subscribers. The network slowly rose to prominence in the late 1990s. In terms of regular viewers (Nielsen ratings), Fox News rates as the United States’ most watched cable news network, ahead of CNN and MSNBC.
 
Many observers have asserted that both Fox’s news reporting and its political commentary promote conservative political positions. Fox News Channel denies any bias in its news reporting and maintains that its political commentary and news reporting operate independently of each other.
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Accusations of conservative bias
Many critics and politicians have accused FNC of having a bias towards the political right at the expense of neutrality. Murdoch and Ailes have reacted against allegations of bias, with Murdoch saying that Fox has “given room to both sides, whereas only one side had it before.” In 2004, director Robert Greenwald produced the documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, which argues that Fox News has a conservative bias, including as evidence internal memos from editorial Vice President John Moody which the film uses to demonstrate Fox’s attempts to alter news content.
 
A Pew Research poll, released on October 29, 2009, found that Fox News is viewed as the most ideological network in America. The poll, which featured Americans view of various news networks by ideology, scored Fox News the highest of any category with (47%) as “mostly conservative,” (14%) as “mostly liberal,” and (24%) as “neither.”[48] In comparison, MSNBC had (36%) identify it as “mostly liberal,” (11%) as “mostly conservative,” and (27%) as “neither.” CNN had (37%) describe it as “mostly liberal,” (11%) as “mostly conservative,” and (33%) as “neither.”
   
Urban Dictionary
Faux News
A 24-hour neocon propaganda channel.
Tonight on Faux, we bash a liberal traitor for disagreeing with Bush! Later, O’Reilly yells at the son of a 9/11 victim, but don’t worry, because he’s a DEMOCRAT!!11!
by Blah Aug 8, 2003
 
FAUX News 
A derogatory pun for FOX News, the 24 hour cable network which ushered in the age of shouting head pseudo-journalism.
See also faux
FAUX News: We Distort, You Comply
by Dovetchka Dec 24, 2005
   
Google Groups: seattle.politics
Newsgroups: seattle.politics, wash.politics
From: “Frederick”
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:14:21 -0800
Local: Thurs, Mar 1 2001 1:14 pm
Subject: Great Article on the Faux News Channel
   
Citizens for Legitimate Government
Protest Reports, Plainfield, NJ: 3/14/01
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The local Courier filmed and interviewed us. I am told someone from Faux news was there.
   
Citizens for Legitimate Government
Fox News Protest Report, 4/6/01: Leah Faerstein
It was a dark and rainy day. I had trouble figuring out where or what the protest actually was. Fox logo umbrellas were interspersed among the “Faux News” signs…
 
Google Groups: alt.politics.democrats.d
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.republican, alt.politics.democrats.d, talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.bush
From: Rich Travsky
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:02:14 -0600
Local: Mon, Jul 30 2001 8:02 am
Subject: Condit: Faux News Reduced To Using Psychics
   
Google Groups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities, alt.showbiz.gossip
From: “Not impressed”
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:21:31 -0700
Local: Wed, Aug 8 2001 10:21 am
Subject: Eight hours of “Fair and Balanced” Faux News
     
Google Books
Embedded—weapons of mass deception:
How the media failed to cover the war in Iraq

By Danny Schechter
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books
2003
Pg. 170:
The well politically connected Faux News Network seems to have made a few calls and Geraldo Rivera is going back.
   
Google Groups: alt.politics.democrats.d
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.democrats.d, alt.politics.democrats.house, alt.politics.democrats.senate, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.society.liberalism
From: The Axis of Weasel


Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:56:31 -0700
Local: Sat, May 10 2003 8:56 am
Subject: Re: The liberal’s message falls flat
 
Still trying to pretend that Faux News is anything more than an elaborate White House Fax Machines?
     
Democratic Underground
RamboLiberal
Mon Dec-29-03 02:59 PM
Faux News has outsourced jobs to India

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Wednesday, January 20, 2010 • Permalink


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