Broadcasting - News - ASA clears Fox News "balanced" claim

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Jossip found this 5/1/2008 on www.digitalspy.co.uk [flag]
News Corporation is free to claim its Fox News channel is "fair and balanced" in adverts describing the service, the Advertising Standards Agency has ruled. Two people complained after the media giant placed adverts celebrating its achievements in the British national press. The advert was headed "defying conventional wisdom for six decades" and said: "Time and again, they said it couldn't be ... [link]

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Fox News Once Again Defends Its Slogan
Published 5/1/2008 by david at Jossip
... A “NEWS CORP. IS AWESOME” ad appearing in the British press, featuring a timeline that included the line “1996… Fox News Channel, pioneer of fair and balanced news coverage, is born. Today, it dominates cable news in the US,” offended at least two people enough that they complained to the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Agency. ...

Idle Chatter: Now Chris Matthews Can Die Happy
Published 5/2/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
-Proof that Brits don't really get U.S. politics: They think Chris Matthews is more influential than Tim Russert. And they think Karl Rove is the most influential pundit of all. [Telegraph] -The agency that regulates advertising claims in the U.K. has decided that Fox News's "Fair and Balanced" slogan isn't deceptive. The jury's still out on "The Best Political Team on Television", "All the News that Fits" and "Tastes Great, Less Filling." [Digital Spy] -More than 50 women have added their names to a class-action sexual harassment ...