X-Nico

unusual facts about Fox News



2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting

The Chicago O'Hare airport UFO story was picked up by various major mainstream media groups such as CNN, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, The Chicago Tribune, and NPR.

2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters

In 2013, the United States Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder, came under scrutiny from the media and some members of Congress for subpoenaing phone records from the Associated Press and naming Fox News reporter, James Rosen, a "criminal co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act of 1917 in order to gain access to his personal emails and phone records.

America Live with Megyn Kelly

America Live with Megyn Kelly was a news program that aired on the Fox News Channel from 1-3 pm Eastern Standard Time Monday through Friday.

Anystream

Anystream's Agility software has become a standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media companies as BBC, Red Bee Media, BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, Foxsports.com, NFL Films, weather.com and others.

Armed Forces Foundation

The program has received recognition from Congressional leaders, ESPN, ESPN2, Outdoor Channel, The Sportsman Channel, Pentagon Channel, and Fox News.

Avi Korein

Roger Friedman of Fox News in 2006 noted what he perceived as the irony of Korein working for Mel Gibson, who caused controversy when he uttered anti-semitic comments during a DUI incident in Malibu, California.

Bill Lippert

On May 12, 2007, Lippert received national attention when a Fox News crew, on behalf of the program The O'Reilly Factor, interrupted his breakfast in the Vermont statehouse cafeteria to ask him why he didn't support Jessica's Law, for which host Bill O'Reilly is an advocate.

Bill Schulz

William Dawes "Bill" Schulz (born August 14, 1975) is an American journalist and television personality, best known for being on the Fox News late-night show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Carteret High School

Joseph A. Cafasso (born 1956), former Fox News consultant on military and counterterrorism issues who left the network after allegations surfaced that he misrepresented his military record.

CIA–al-Qaeda controversy

Fox News reporter Richard Miniter wrote that in interviews with the two men who "oversaw the disbursement for all American funds to the anti-Soviet resistance, Bill Peikney - CIA station chief in Islamabad from 1984 to 1986 - and Milt Bearden - CIA station chief from 1986 to 1989 - he found,

Cliff Carpenter

In later life, he had a small role in Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, and made recurring appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, playing a 22-year-old man who aged prematurely as a consequence of watching Sean Hannity nightly on Fox News.

Covenant Aviation Security

In November 2010, Fox News reported that Representative John Mica (R-Fla), who was pushing for airports to use private contractors in lieu of the TSA, had since 2006 received $1,700 from Gerald Berry in campaign contributions.

Dave Wedge

On March 7, 2002, Wedge appeared on Fox News’s The O'Reilly Factor and said Judge Murphy coddled defendants and "caused headlines for making disparaging remarks to victims."

Diana Buttu

In response to Fox News journalist Greg Jarrett's statement, in a July 2012 interview, that Israel had “launched its attack on Gaza because Hamas simply would not stop firing rockets into Israel” and that Hamas was thus responsible “for all of these terrible Palestinian deaths,” Buttu accused Jarrett of “blaming the victim,” claiming that “even when Hamas does not fire a single rocket...Israel continues to fire upon Gaza.”

Douglas C. Bennett

Earlham College, during Bennett's tenure, gained national media attention when political analyst and Fox News commentator William Kristol, was hit with an ice cream pie by a student while giving a speech on foreign policy in March 2005.

Howard Wolfson

He was a Fox News contributor, and advised Ned Lamont's campaign for governor of Connecticut.

International Size Acceptance Association

Despite being of relatively small size, ISAA has managed to pull media attention, being mentioned by Yomiuri, CNN, Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, Fox News, and the New York Times.

Jennifer Nettles

In an interview on Fox News with Martha MacCullum, Nettles expressed interest in appearing in a Broadway play, stating in particular that she would like to play the role of Elphaba in Wicked.

JInsider

He was part of the original management team that launched the Fox News Channel under Roger Ailes in 1996.

John Henry Coatsworth

While addressing the President of Iran's upcoming visit to the University campus on Fox News, Dean Coatsworth was asked whether the administration would have allowed Adolf Hitler to speak on campus if he had asked.

John Mueller

He also appeared on Fox News show Hannity & Colmes and on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, December 17, 2006, again discussing Overblown and took viewer questions for 54 minutes.

Jonas Max Ferris

Jonas Max Ferris (born September 13, 1971, Southfield, Massachusetts) is an economist, investment advisor, and Fox News economic analyst who regularly appears as a panelist on Fox Business' Channel stocks and investment news program Cashin' In.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

She also served as a speech writer to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate Republican nomination in New York in 2006 and is currently a Fox News contributor on foreign policy and national security issues.

Katie Blair

Following her win, Blair gave interviews with various media organizations, including WPIX New York and Dayside on Fox News.

Kenneth Baer

He is the author of Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton (University Press of Kansas, 2000), has published commentaries in publications such as Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, and has been a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News, NPR, BBC, and CBC.

Kenny Bishop

He has been a regular performer on the Gaither Homecoming video series and radio program, and has performed on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and PBS.

Kevin A. Ross

Along with serving as one of the producers on the Emmy nominated America's Court, Ross also appears on various cable and radio outlets such as Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, Black Entertainment Television (BET), NPR, The Tom Joyner Morning Show and KJLH 102.3 FM as a legal, political and social commentator.

Liz MacDonald

MacDonald is also a regular on the Fox News show Forbes on Fox, having been with the show since its inception in 2001.

Majid Rafizadeh

As a political scientist and scholar, Rafizadeh regularly appears on national and international outlets including CNN, BBC World TV and Radio, ABC, Aljazeera, Fox News, CTV News, RT, CCTV America, and France 24 International.

Mary Katharine Ham

Ham appears regularly on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News program, The O'Reilly Factor, usually with Juan Williams, and she has been a guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Michael Fertik

a frequent guest on national television programs, including Dr. Phil, Fox News, Good Morning America, and BBC World News.

Michaela Gagne

Gagne has been interviewed nationally on CNN, Fox News and Inside Edition, as well as being featured in various publications including USA Today, Newsweek online (personally written article) and The Boston Globe.

Nancy Heche

On September 8, 2006, Heche's was the "Back of the Book guest" on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor.

National Civilian Community Corps

AmeriCorps (which includes the NCCC program) is a USA federally funded "network of more than 3,000 non-profit organizations, public agencies, and faith-based organizations." AmeriCorps has met with sharp criticisms from fiscal conservatives who accused it of being a "boondoggle", most notably by libertarian James Bovard in a Fox News article that covered proposals to cut funding for the program.

Nile Gardiner

Gardiner has been interviewed as a pundit on many television news programs, including Fox News, NBC Nightly News, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Washington Journal amongst others.

Peter R. Harris

Although no documentation suggests any link between Compass Group or its subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) (sometimes referred to as Eurest or Eurest Support Services, or even ESS Support Services Worldwide) to the Oil-for-Food Programme scandal, Fox News in particular alleged questionable conduct by Harris.

Rafael Resendes

Resendes has also contributed his insight to various news outlets such as CNBC, CNN, Fox News, RealClearPolitics.

Robert Siciliano

Siciliano has appeared on United States-based television programming such as "The Today Show," "Anderson Cooper 360°", CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, "Inside Edition," "Tyra Banks Show," "Sally Jesse Show," "Montel Williams," "Maury Povich Show," "Gayle King Show" and the "Howard Stern Show."

Rockbridge Associates

In 2009, Rockbridge worked with Network Solutions and the University of Maryland, College Park to release the Small Business Success Index, which was featured on Fox News.

Steve Elmendorf

He has been a frequent guest on television talk shows including Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNBC’s Capitol Report, Fox News and CNN’s Crossfire.

Sunrise Adams

On August 2, 2004, Adams appeared with Savanna Samson on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor, to promote their book, How to Have a XXX Sex Life.

Susan G. Cole

Her 2010 appearance on FOX News in support of students protesting the appearance of Ann Coulter on the University of Ottawa campus has engaged her in the debate on freedom of speech.

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

During an interview on Fox News by Lauren Green, Green frequently interjected, quoting critics who questioned Aslan's credibility as an author of such a work as Aslan is a prominent Muslim.

Ziad Asali

He has provided television commentary and interviews for CNN, CBS, Charlie Rose, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, C-SPAN, Voice of America and numerous syndicated cable programs.


see also

Alan Colmes

Colmes has continued as a commentator on Fox News, most often on The O'Reilly Factor where he frequently appears with his conservative sister-in-law, Monica Crowley.

Alia Sabur

In June 2010 Sabur appeared on CNN and Fox News' Hannity to illustrate her idea, which BP considered as an option to help alleviate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bill Cowan

He has also been a Fox News Channel contributor since 2001, has been a co-host with Ambassador Dick Carlson of the radio and television show Danger Zone, and he has written articles for The Washington Post and been featured in several television shows apart from the documentary such as 60 Minutes, Larry King Live and others.

Blog Wars

The 60 minute film features a range of top bloggers, liberal and conservative, including: Markos Moulitsas, founder of DailyKos; Michelle Malkin, blogger and Fox News Commentator; Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake; John Hinderaker, co-founder of Powerline; Charles Foster Johnson, founder of littlegreenfootballs; Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New Republic.

Brad Hurtado

Hurtado was the executive producer of New York's Metro Guide Channel, the senior producer of Fox News Channel's WebMD TV, and an executive producer of various shows for the Food Network, including, How To Boil Water & Ready!

Casey Stegall

Most recently, Stegall was an on-scene correspondent for Fox News during its coverage of the 2013 Moore tornado.

Christopher Wallace

Chris Wallace (born 1947), newscaster at ABC, NBC, and Fox News

Chronology of the reactions to Innocence of Muslims

A DHS report released on September 11 and reported by Fox News on September 19 indicated that a web statement incited "sons of Egypt" to pressure America to release Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (the so-called "blind sheikh) "even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone in it.

Daniel Cooper

Dan Cooper (born 1946), executive producer, author, and Fox News journalist

Darby Dunn

When appearing on Fox News, Dunn read overnight Fox News Live headline updates, and appeared as a financial reporter on CNN.

Erik Liljegren

Before taking his position at the Fox News Channel (FNC), Liljegren served as a general assignment reporter at the Fox affiliate station, WGHP-TV, in High Point, North Carolina from 2003-2005.

Fox News Talk

Fox News radio programs carried include shows hosted by FNC personalities John Gibson, Alan Colmes, and Brian Kilmeade.

Fox Radio

Fox News Radio, an American radio network programmed by Fox News Channel

Gary Schwartz

On Fox News on the Geraldo at Large show, October 6, 2007, Geraldo Rivera and other investigators accused Schwartz as a fraud and that he had overstepped his position as a university researcher by requesting over three million dollars from a bereaved father who had lost his son.

Geraldo at Large

Anchors and correspondents from Fox News, including anchor Laurie Dhue, Laura Ingle, Phil Keating, and Arthel Neville, serve as correspondents of the newsmagazine.

Greg Jarrett

Gregg Jarrett (born 1955), news personality on Fox News Channel

Griff Jenkins

Before being hired by Fox News, Jenkins was the producer for the Oliver North Radio Program.

Housley

Adam Housley (born 1972), joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 2001 as a Los Angeles-based correspondent

Janice Dean

She is known for her nickname, "Janice Dean, the Weather Machine", coined by evening Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith.

Jill Dobson

She was a regular correspondent on Fox's morning show Fox & Friends, as well as Fox News prime time talk programs, including Hannity and Colmes, Hannity, and the O'Reilly Factor, as well as other Fox shows including The Live Desk.

Jim Angle

Joining Fox News in 1996, Angle is a nightly contributor to the show Special Report with Bret Baier.

KFPX-TV

For a short time in 2001, KFPX ran a prime-time newscast produced by WHO-TV to compete with KDSM-TV's Fox News At Nine.

Laura Mansfield

Mansfield frequently appears on a wide array of mainly-US networks such as CNN and CNN International, FoxNews, Fox News UK, Israel National Radio, BBC, and CBN as well as numerous radio stations across the US such as KGO Radio News in San Francisco, America at Night, WDEL, WFED, WTOP, the Laurie Roth Show, the Tom Bauerle Show, and the Carl Wigglesworth Show, as well as working for many unnamed Fortune 500 companies.

Lois H. Gresh

They have been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Science News, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, and US News and World Report, as well as by National Public Radio, the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, and other television and radio programs.

Louis Rukeyser

After Rukeyser's departure, the series was renamed Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE and co-hosted by the editorial director of Fortune (magazine) magazine, Geoffrey Colvin, along with Karen Gibbs, a former senior business correspondent on the Fox News Channel.

Mark Suppelsa

In September 2004, WFLD promoted Suppelsa to be the co-anchor of WFLD's Fox News Chicago at Nine in Chicago, at the same time demoting Walter Jacobson from the co-anchor position.

Matt Drudge

Drudge had refused to go on air, charging Fox News with censorship when the network prevented him from showing photos of surgery on Samuel Armas.

Mike Barz

In March 2007, Barz returned to Chicago as a co-anchor of WFLD-TV's "Fox News in the Morning," working alongside co-anchors Tamron Hall and David Novarro.

Mike Emanuel

Emanuel has been based in the Fox News bureaus in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Washington.

Mike Gallagher

He is the host of The Mike Gallagher Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program that airs throughout the United States on Salem Radio Network and is also a FOX News Channel Contributor and guest host.

NewsBios

Those on the NewsBios Top 100 include: Robert James Thomson, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal; Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times; Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News; Neil Cavuto, anchor and managing editor of Business News for FOX News Channel; and Allan Sloan, prize-winning columnist for Fortune Magazine.

Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation

The film also features a Sarah Palin spoof in the character of 'Sister Sara' (who works for a news outlet called 'Fixed News' which is apparently a spoof of 'Fox News') and makes references to the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead film with comments such as "They're Romero zombies" and "Pittsburgh is the zombie capital."

On the Record

On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren, a legal news show hosted by Greta Van Susteren on the Fox News Channel

Page Hopkins

In 2002 Hopkins began working at Fox News and became the co-anchor of Fox & Friends Weekend as well as Fox News Live and Breaking News Desk.

Pharmacists for Life International

-- result unclear; still searching --> On April 16, 2001 in an appearance on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Brauer acknowledged that she did not directly decline or refuse to fill the prescription but, rather, lied to the customer by saying the pharmacy was out of stock of the contraceptive in question (Micronor), which Brauer holds is designed to "terminate a human life that has already begun".

Quincy, Michigan

Jill Dobson, an American journalist, Former Miss Michigan and former television entertainment correspondent for the Fox News Channel.

Robert Kotler

As a spokesperson for cosmetic surgeons, he regularly appears on radio and television, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News; on such shows as Oprah, Deborah Norville Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Your World with Neil Cavuto, EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was a psychiatrist by the name of Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games."

Sabrina Sabbagh

She reports for Fox News Radio and has been seen on several Fox News Channel shows like "On The Record" with Greta Van Susteren.

Sonora High School

Andre Julian, financial expert and market analyst on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox News.

Stuart Mitchell

In 2005, the Mitchell's received media coverage from Reuters, ITN, BBC, and CNN/Fox News when they claimed to have deciphered a musical code carved into the ceiling design of Rosslyn Chapel.

Vallely

Paul E. Vallely, US soldier and military consultant for FOX News

WCJC

Layla Price does news in the afternoons as well as Fox News.