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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 05:41 PM Jun 2017

Morford: Top 15 rejected Fox News slogans to replace "Fair & Balanced"

By Mark Morford

Even Fox News, apparently, knows when a bad joke has run its course.

According to Business Insider (and many others), the network has decided to quietly shift its marketing slogan, nixing its absolutely never-even-remotely-true (but still iconic) “Fair & Balanced” moniker – as invented by the late, greatly accused sexual harasser Roger Ailes – to something perhaps slightly less easy to mock, but still adorably untrue: “Most Watched. Most Trusted.”

Upon choosing such a terrifically tepid slogan, Fox executives reportedly then sat back, sipped their laudanum smoothies, and hoped lightning would not strike them dead on the spot for insulting the world’s intelligence, all over again.

Here at SFGATE, we've received a top-secret memo, hand-delivered to our San Francisco offices by a very tall, stoic, slightly grumpy man in a “I Heart the FBI" T-shirt and calling himself “J-Com.” The leaked memo details upwards of 15 of the potential slogans Fox News executives also considered to replace "Fair & Balanced." Some excellent options, really.





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Morford: Top 15 rejected Fox News slogans to replace "Fair & Balanced" (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2017 OP
I prefer maxrandb Jun 2017 #1
Love his "opinion" rants! furtheradu Jun 2017 #2
"We Lie and We Grab" dalton99a Jun 2017 #3
The only safe slogan would be ProudLib72 Jun 2017 #4
"We lie like crazy so you don't have to !" eppur_se_muova Jun 2017 #5
Fox News is not a news organization Gothmog Jun 2017 #6

maxrandb

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Fri Jun 16, 2017, 05:48 PM
Jun 2017

Fox News-You Can See our Panties from your House

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