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• Mediabistro Blog-Family Roundup

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  • Fox News' holiday cards are back! And as always, taking swipes at their competitors during this festive season. -FishbowlDC

  • An even better holiday card, though, is the one where you ask your friends for a job while wishing them a Merry Christmas. -[...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  

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• The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Author John Ortved on Today's 20th Anniversary and How Male Simpsons Fans Can't Get Laid

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  Twenty years ago today, Rupert Murdoch's upstart network FOX aired the first-ever half-hour episode of The Simpsons, a holiday special in which a financially strained fatso dad named Homer ends ...

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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:17pm EST
  by Camille Dodero

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• Stabby Twitterati Dance on Graves [Twitterati]

  —Gawker

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  MC Hammer pumped up a Silicon Valley rap battle; Nick Denton mocked a laid off New York Timesman; and a Fox Newser lashed out at the "hippies." The Twitterati love a fight. Niche Media's Jason Binn...

  
  

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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:09pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• To Be a Fly on the Wall... [Pic Of The Night]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 27
  What did Rachel Maddow and Fox News president Roger Ailes' say to each other at tonight's White House holiday party for broadcast journalists? Our guess: [Five minutes of awkward silence.] MADDOW:...

  
  

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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:15am EST
  by Adrian Chen

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• Dumbing down of America: Fox Weathermen don't know the difference between Weather and Climate.

  —Inland Z

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  To the Fox News Network Weathermen:   I see thatnone of you chose to correct Hannity's in accurate equation of a  snowy weather event in Houston to global climate change.  I presume...
  
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:29pm EST
  by Mike Wrona

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• Rupert Murdoch Wishes Some of You Happy Holidays [Internal Memos]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 15
  Rupert Murdoch sent out his Holiday Greetings to his minions today. Fox News and Fox Business Network are mentioned by name, but the Wall Street Journal is not. Take that to heart, WSJ! The full dose...

  
  

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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

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• 'Avatar' and 3D Films: the Extra 'D' Stands for 'Dollars' [Trade Roundup]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 16
  If 'Avatar' makes as much money as 20th Century Fox basically needs it to, we may never see a plain 2D movie again. Variety reports that 3D films tripled their B.O. take this year, to $1.3 billion....

  
  

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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:54am EST
  by Adrian Chen

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• Fox to Beck: Maybe You Should Cut Back On the Gold a Little? [Gold]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 44
  Something's gone terribly wrong at Fox News—they keep responding to criticism as if it's valid! Someone at the network sent a letter to Glenn Beck wondering why he's always constantly shilling...

  
  

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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:21am EST
  by Pareene

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• Around The Blogosphere 10 November 09

  —Dave Lucas

  Blog: The Real Truth About Tiger's TrystsCNBCAll of it comes out anyway, eventually, especially in an era of a crillion cell-phone cameras, ubiquitous blogs and infinite storage of digital “sext” messages... See Also:::Haywood tackles Tiger Woods
  
  Fox Nation, right-wing blogs seize on heavily edited anti-abortion video [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:10pm EST
  

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• Congress Tosses Tree, Cancels Christmas [Holiday Traditions]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 50
  The War on Christmas is proceeding apace. Fox news fired the first volley before Halloween (it gets earlier every year yuk yuk), and now Wonkette finds this tragic victim of liberal Jesus-hate Yes,...

  
  

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  by Pareene

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• Cheney Trashes Obama On Terror Trial, Afghanistan

  —Gothamist

  

  Some retirees kill time between Canasta games by moping around the house feeling sorry for themselves, but not former Vice President Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney. He swung by the Fox News clubhouse yesterday with some words of wisdom for our current President, calling his [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  by John Del Signore

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• Hugh Grant Cops a Feel of Sarah Jessica, Causing Her Breasts to Fly Out of Her Dress [Gossip Roundup]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 9
  That's the normal reaction when Hugh Grant touches your butt, right? Rachel Uchitel finally goes to the press, Rihanna wants to make out with Megan Fox, Ben and Jen mate like bunnies. Wednesday...

  
  

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:33am EST
  by Azaria Jagger

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• Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News [Outrage]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 47
  We're a Christian nation with a Muslim president who hates Charlie Brown. It's outrageous. The only solution is more outrage, in the form of outrageous right-wing idiot statements. Today's...

  
  

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

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• How Fox News Landed That Derek Jeter Interview [How Things Work]

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  Number of comments: 27
  Gretchen Carlson interviewed Derek Jeter on Fox News yesterday. What a get! She mentioned that Jeter is "the last pure athlete" and that he lives his life "so perfectly," but not that she's married...

  
  

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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:51pm EST
  by John Cook

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• Latest Attack by Nature on New York: Sleeper Deer

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  How did a deer get on Governors Island, where it was tranquilized and captured today? "Deer are considered good swimmers," says Fox News. Oh, so it swam there from, say, Bay Ridge? "The deer," sa...

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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:03pm EST
  by Roy Edroso

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• O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop Killer's Sentence [Corn Pone Opinions]

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  The Washington State cop killer should be a slam dunk of rage for Bill O'Reilly: A governor commutes a criminal's sentence, then the guy goes and kills four cops. Except that governor was fellow Fox...

  
  

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:56pm EST
  by Adrian Chen

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• Exec Wants To Save Maxim, But Will His Plan Work?

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  Page Six reports today that Andrew Fox, whose company Track Entertainment operates nightlife directory Clubplanet.com, is predicting the death lad mag Maxim, unless its publishers go quietly.

  According to the gossip column, Fox has contacted Maxim's majority stake holder, private equity fund Cerberus, [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

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• Either Sell Maxim or Die [Magazines]

  —Gawker

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  The man behind clubplanet.com wants to buy Maxim for $40m and is convinced he can turn the ailing magazine around using the internets. If the owners don't sell, says Andrew Fox, they will DIE. He...

  
  

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:19am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

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• Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day [Clipjob]

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  Today at Gawker.TV, Sesame Street slanders Fox News, Anthony Bourdain ruins your Thanksgiving, a gang of Turkeys steal a little boy's bike, Dancing With the Stars has technical difficulties, and we...

  
  

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  by Whitney Jefferson

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• In Which Fox Edits Lies into the News [Journalismism]

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  Here's how an accurate-but-slanted story becomes an outright lie: the conservative (and rapidly collapsing) Moonie-owned Washington Times notes that Republicans didn't show up to Obama's dinner....

  
  

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  by Pareene

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• Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010 [Quality Control]

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  The big chiefs at Fox News aren't happy at the string of high-profile lies they got caught telling recently, so they're going to start firing people who get caught in the future, because they hate...

  
  

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  by John Cook

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• Publisher Would Like You to Buy Sarah Palin's Actual Book, Not the Parody [Sarah Palin]

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  There are two books out — Going Rogue, 'written' by Palin. And Going Rouge, a parody. Many, including, CNN, USA Today and Fox News, keep getting confused and picking the wrong one. Now Palin's...

  
  

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:45am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

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• Obama appoints Dana Perino to Broadcasting Board of Governors

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  President Obama has named former presidential press secretary and current Fox News correspondent Dana Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The BBG controls overseas US media outlets. ...

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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:52am EST
  by Julia

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• Byrds of the world UNITE

  —In da Buff (Buffalo, New York)

  Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com

  I think if Kevin Gaughan shows up at town hall in my locale, I may just have to do this.

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:44am EST
  by Christopher Byrd

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• Italian Sex-Murder Case Makes Surprise Post Appearance

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  That Amanda Knox case -- pretty young American student accused of drug-sex-orgy-murder -- has reemerged in the New York Post (where she is traditionally referred to as "Foxy Knoxy"): basically, t...

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:03pm EST
  by Roy Edroso

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