THIRTY FIVE channels air "Hope For Haiti" telethon. Guess who's not on the list.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Et Tu, Fox News Channel?
By Nicole Belle Friday Jan 22, 2010 7:31pm



It's a horrible, unspeakable tragedy that gets you right in the core of your humanity. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is flattened by a huge earthquake. Hundreds of thousands killed, thousands of children orphaned, more than 1.5 million now homeless. Bodies of the dead are lain in the street to be bulldozed into mass graves while machete-wielding gangs fight for the scarce resources. The pain, the fear, the sense of hopelessness is palpable.

It is now incumbent upon all of us, as fellow humans, to lend a hand and help the Haitians. And in a rare show of humanity, broadcast and cable television outlets have agreed to pre-empt their regular programming to air the Hope For Haiti Now Global TV Telethon.

Except for Fox News Channel.

Our crack C&L team has checked around the dial and compiled a list of channels participating:
CBS
ABC
NBC
CW
FOX
TNT
Weather Channel
MSNBC
CNBC
CNN
HBO
Showtime
Major League Baseball Network
Style Network
E! Entertainment Network
ReelzChannel
TNT
Comedy Central
Oxygen
Soap Opera channel
Bravo
National Geographic Channel
Sleuth
G4
CMT
TV1
BET
MTV
MTV2
VH1
GMC
FUSE
Current
PBS
It's even streaming live on IMDb, Hulu and YouTube.

But not for FNC or their sister business channel. They're showing Billo and crew.

I guess that tells you exactly what you need to know about Fox's responsibility as a "news" channel.

The Hope For Haiti fundraiser will distribute donations to the following organizations: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, United Nations World Food Programme, Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, Unicef, and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti Foundation. If you have not yet donated, please consider doing so now.

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[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Shameful, but somehow not surprising.

Maybe if an earthquake had destroyed Kennebunkport Maine on a holiday when the entire Bush Crime Family was there, FAUX might give a shit. :evilfrown:

[hughee99]

2. So it's on FOX, but not Faux news? n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Yep...

...because Roger Ailes isn't calling the shots there.

[madrchsod]

3. that picture explains why fox did`t run the program....

billo and the rest of fox entertainer`s audience would be outraged

[applegrove]

5. They are such ****s.

[robinlynne]

6. It's not on PBS.

[old guy]

8. It was on PBS in Mn.

[robinlynne]

9. not here in california. watching pbs right now.

[Raine]

22. Orange County CA PBS had it on

I don't think the Los Angeles PBS had it but OC did.

edit: added word

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. It was on PBS here in MD too.

[tammywammy]

15. It was in North Texas n/t

[lib_wit_it]

18. On PBS in Philly. : )

[FarCenter]

7. What's the point of having it on more than a few channels?

[KamaAina]

10. I knew it was gonna be Faux before I even clicked

:eyes:

[NYC_SKP]

11. Not on PBS, History Channel, Animal Planet, and a few others. Frankly, it doesn't need to be.

Not to support Fox News, but I don't pay big bucks for lots of stations to have them all show the same bloody show, whatever it is.

Glad it was on many, but it didn't need to be on every last channel.

[AnnieBW]

12. Not on SyFy, Either

It's about the only NBC/Universal property that it wasn't on.

[Maru Kitteh]

23. I hope most people don't look to SyFy as a news/current events source.

[DAMANgoldberg]

14. Not on CNBC...

I my community we have 3 PBS stations, only UNCTV showed it, WTVI 42 and SCETV did not.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I watched it ON CNBC what the hell are you talking about?

[donheld]

16. You mean every channel that has a heart

[Contrary1]

17. Nah. No outrage.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7555758&mesg_id=7555758

[Raine]

19. The local Fox here in Los Angeles had it on

just saying.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. That is FOX entertainment, not FNC... same company

completely different demographic.