Neil Cavuto's interest in sex-related businesses
The blog News Hounds likes to criticize Fox and Neil Cavuto on a regular basis, and the critique of Cavuto’s show on Tuesday was hilarious. The blog wrote: “The ‘Fox Stox’ portion of Your World w/Neil Cavuto is a roughly 90-second segment during which Cavuto rattles off selected ‘business news’ headlines. Today’s (February 14, 2006) […]
Neil Cavuto buys Ailes' condo in Palm Beach
The Palm Beach Post reported Friday that Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto purchased the Palm Beach condo of Fox News head honcho Roger Ailes for $525,000 a couple of years ago, which is incredibly cheap compared to the going rate of condos in the area. Ailes had purchased the condo in 1987 for $310,000. The […]
Neil Cavuto on Friday's unemployment numbers
The blog News Hounds critiqued Neil Cavuto’s coverage of the unemployment numbers on Friday as being extremely pro-Bush while other media outlets seemed to ignore the statistics that showed a four-year low. News Hounds wrote, “Cavuto would have his audience believe that the numbers prove that the Bush administration has a steady, knowledgeable hand on […]
Unclutter the screen on business networks
Newsbusters.org, which says it is for “exposing and combatting liberal media bias, takes on both the perceived liberal business news network and the perceived conservative business news channel in this critique about cluttered screens on television: “CNBC managed to be even more cluttered. There were, #1 Stock reports streaming across the top of the screen. […]
Criticism of Fox News' coverage of the Ford layoffs
News Hounds, a web site that is devoted to analyzing the coverage on Fox News, posted a critique of Neil Cavuto’s coverage of the Ford Motor Co. announcement yesterday that it was closing plants and laying off 30,000 workers. News Hounds wrote: “Six minutes into Fox’s “premiere business news” program, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, Fox […]
The name "business section" implies conservative coverage
Eric Alterman, author of “What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News,” believes that the name of the section in which most readers receive their business news implies a conservative bias, according to this story in the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper at UCal-Santa Barbara. The story states: “Alterman also contended that, even […]
More criticism of the Cavuto show
From News Hounds, which is a blog that criticizes Fox TV. They’re now upset that Neil Cavuto just announced that Ann Coulter would be on his show tomorrow: “Whooooeeee! Neil Cavuto just gave a promo for tomorrow’s show. Ann Coulter will be on to talk about Dow 11,000. Give me a break. Cavuto twists and […]
Jim Rogers gets "dumb comment" award
Jim Rogers said something about economic sanctions not working on Cavuto on Business on Saturday. This News Hounds blogger takes him to task: Stuart Varney, Fox News business reporter, was promoting the idea of sanctions against Iran, but Rogers disagreed: “Sanctions have never worked against any country in the world.” Charles Payne of Wallstreet.com, agreed, […]
Is there bias in business reporting?
That’s what Fox News business editor Neil Cavuto believes, according to an interview in the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday. Among Cavuto’s allegations against business reporters are: “With Enron, one bad company quickly became ‘all companies are bad.’ There’s a default thinking that says capitalism is evil.” I’m not sure I agree with that statement. I […]
