Tucker Carlson (yes, that Tucker Carlson) does a hilarious takedown of Fox’s “News Alert” obsession
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July 11th, 2006
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He’s trying to pull an Olberman, don’t let him. He’s barely fit to stroke a Danziger.
The “Fox News Alerts” are talked about in OUTFOXED a lot. They were originally made for emergency news, and they had another graphic for the less-emergency cases.
But when your network is built on producing fear and controlling the people ala 1984, then little wonder of the news alerts.
During the invasion of Iraq I actually wrote an email to Fox to complain about the ridiculous, redundant news alerts. While I was writing the email, there were THREE MORE alerts.