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Category Archives: Fox News
The Bells Are Ringing
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Posted in Fox News, Race and America, War on Christmas
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Necessary but Not Sufficient
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Posted in Fox News, Republicans in Disarray
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Suddenly Left Behind
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Entropic Decline
Entropy is something physicists talk about, and it’s kind of a matching concept to what Newton was saying regarding thermodynamics and how a body in motion tends to remain in motion and a body at rest tends to remain at … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Election, ACORN, Fox News, Republicans in the Wilderness, Republicans Living in the Past
Tagged ACORN, Dealing with Random Events, Entropic Decline, Entropy, Fox New and David Petraeus, Fox News Wanted to Run David Petraeus, Losing the Youth Vote, Most Americans Will Blame Republicans for Fiscal Cliff, PPP Poll, Republicans Cannot Adapt, Republicans Cannot Change, Republicans Not Taking the Election Well, Roger Ailes, William Butler Yeats, Woodward's Fox News Scoop
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The Not-So-Awful Monday
Everybody hates Mondays, but now and then one of them turns out to be not that bad. Monday, September 26 – after one of the most dismal weeks in the history of the stock market, the Dow rises slowly during … Continue reading
Objectionable Objectivity
California is what it is. After more than sixteen years here in this place in Hollywood, what with all the minor earthquakes, and the sonic boom that shook the place hard each time the Space Shuttle was forced to land … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy Journalism, Fox News
Tagged Advocacy Journalism. Press Objectivity, Fox News, Journalistic Standards, Juan Williams, Kith Olbermann, Lou Dobbs, North County San Diego, Olbermann Suspended, Press Bias, Press Involvement in Politics, Rachel Maddow, Rupert Murdoch, San Diego, The Elements of Journalism (2001), The Media, Verify the Accuracy of Your Findings
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