Cable News Chyrons Serve As Hilarious Live Fact-Checkers In Trump’s America

In a world of fake news and alternative facts, chyrons are setting the record straight. The tiny, digital, almost always “Breaking News”-adorned captions superimposed on the bottom of screens during newscasts were historically used to introduce the topic that reporters or political figures are addressing for audiences tuning in after the start of a segment. In other words, they’re usually unimportant…

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What Year Is It?

What the hell is going on, here? I thought the show about the guys breaking out of prison ended like eight years ago. Now I am seeing commercials that are all like This Tuesday … [grim men looking at each other through chain-link fence] … on Fox … [sooty-faced men being serious] … you can…

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Is Bill O’Reilly Going Off the Air?

On vacation. Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images Embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation. O’Reilly’s decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension, but O’Reilly worked to dispel that notion. He announced…

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Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up – The New York Times

Cover Photo Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s top-rated host, has faced a series of sexual harassment allegations going back years. Credit Robert Wright for The New York Times Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up About $13 million has been paid out over the years to address complaints from women about…

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