> Update: 11:21am: Here’s the video of the segment.
Tucker Carlson started his “Beat the Press” segment on Monday with a well-deserved look at the abuse of Fox News Alerts. On the subject of the Manhattan building collapse, Carlson asked:
| It was a big story, but was it really big enough to rate screaming alert banners eight times in less than an hour? We counted and that’s how many times the FOX News channel alerted the story right after it broke. Here’s how their coverage played out. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this FOX News alert. Firefighters in New York City have their hands… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this FOX News alert. There are reports… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep an eye in this FOX News alert on what’s going on on Manhattan’s upper east side where a… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A FOX News alert, and firefighters… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A FOX News alert. And what is sounding more and more like… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A FOX News alert and keeping an eye on… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A FOX News alert. And an absolutely terrifying incident… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Breaking news now on FOX. A thunderous explosion rocks the upper east side of Manhattan. (END VIDEO CLIP) CARLSON: Eight times in one hour. Even by the low or maybe high standards of cable news and we all do it, that is, I think it’s fair to say, excessive. One alert every 7.5 minutes. My question — it’s not about the network. They’re trying to get all the viewers they can, but about the viewers, viewers who watch for more than 7.5 minutes say do they notice that though nothing has happened in the story, we’ve learned nothing new, the alerts keep coming and does it bother them? Apparently not. |
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