Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare is a collection of essays about Sarah Palin with a spoof title and book cover design intended to lampoon Palin's memoir Going Rogue: An American Life . It was released on November 17, 2009. Both books feature Palin on the front in red, but Going Rouge has her against a backdrop of black thunder clouds and lightning, instead of the blue sky and white clouds on her memoir.
50-522: The anthology, according to its publisher OR Books , provides a political counterpoint and addresses Palin's background, her rise to prominence, and "the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to dominate the nation's political scene." The book is unrelated in content to Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book , a 48-page paperback by cartoonist Julie Sigwart and radio host Micheal Stinson, or to Going Rouge: A Candid Look inside
100-420: A news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day. The ticker has remained, informing viewers about additional news which reporters may not mention on-screen and repeating news mentioned during a broadcast; it has proven popular with viewers. In January 2002, Fox News surpassed CNN in ratings for the first time. In 2023, The Economist reported that Murdoch had "ditched
150-583: A Spanish section. According to NewsGuard , "Much of FoxNews.com's content, particularly articles produced by beat reporters and broadcasts produced by network correspondents, is accurate and well-sourced ... However, FoxNews.com has regularly advanced false and misleading claims on topics including the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol , the Russo-Ukrainian War , COVID-19 , and U.S. elections ". In September 2008, FNC joined other channels in introducing
200-435: A conservative audience, hiring former Republican media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. It launched on October 7, 1996, to 17 million cable subscribers . Fox News grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become the dominant United States cable news subscription network. By September 2018, 87 million U.S. households (91 percent of television subscribers) could receive Fox News. In 2019, it
250-750: A former publisher of The New Press . Other contributing writers include Max Blumenthal , Joe Conason , Eve Ensler , Michelle Goldberg , Jane Hamsher , Christopher Hayes , Jim Hightower , Linda Hirshman , Dahlia Lithwick , Amanda Marcotte , Shannyn Moore , Jeanne Devon, John Nichols, Hanna Rosin , Matt Taibbi , Michael Tomasky , Rebecca Traister, Naomi Klein , Jessica Valenti , Patricia Williams , JoAnn Wypijewski, and Gary Younge . Salon magazine also announced that several of their original articles will be included: "The Sarah Palin Pity Party," by Rebecca Traister; "The Losers Who Gave Us Sarah Palin," by Joe Conason ; and two pieces by Juan Cole , "What's
300-525: A fourth marketing force" to compete directly with CBS , NBC , and ABC through the purchase of six television stations owned by Metromedia . In July 1985, 20th Century Fox announced Murdoch had completed his purchase of 50% of Fox Filmed Entertainment , the parent company of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. Subsequently, and prior to founding FNC, Murdoch had gained experience in the 24-hour news business when News Corporation 's BSkyB subsidiary began Europe's first 24-hour news channel ( Sky News ) in
350-567: A large ratings jump during the early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq . At the height of the conflict, according to some reports, Fox News had as much as a 300% increase in viewership (averaging 3.3 million viewers daily). In 2004, Fox News' ratings for its broadcast of the Republican National Convention exceeded those of the three major broadcast networks. During President George W. Bush 's address, Fox News attracted 7.3 million viewers nationally; NBC, ABC, and CBS had
400-523: A large studio in New York City, News Corporation enlisted the help of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani 's administration to pressure Time Warner Cable (one of the city's two cable providers) to transmit Fox News on a city-owned channel. City officials threatened to take action affecting Time Warner's cable franchises in the city. During the September 11, 2001 attacks , Fox News was the first news organization to run
450-424: A live streaming segment to its website: The Strategy Room , designed to appeal to older viewers. It airs weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM and takes the form of an informal discussion, with running commentary on the news. Regular discussion programs include Business Hour , News With a View and God Talk . In March 2009, The Fox Nation was launched as a website intended to encourage readers to post articles commenting on
500-543: A parody of hers and it certainly takes some shots and mocks Sarah Palin, but it is a very serious book and the book itself is not a parody. It is not at all intended as a joke or a parody. OR Books cofounder Colin Robinson announced that they intended to promote the book with a web video by documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald , which they planned to "send around virally" leading up to the November 17 release date. Customers wanting
550-547: A partnership whereby Counterpoint would put several OR titles into stores. Fox News The Fox News Channel ( FNC ), commonly known as Fox News , is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City . It is owned by Fox News Media , which itself is owned by the Fox Corporation . It is the most-watched cable news network in
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#1732859133321600-651: A plan" to remerge News Corporation with Fox because it "faced resistance from News Corp investors unhappy at the prospect of being lumped together with Fox News, which they consider a toxic brand." Later that year, Murdoch, then 92, said he would step down and that his son Lachlan would take over both Fox Corporation and News Corp. Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Fox News has been identified as practicing biased and false reporting in favor of
650-724: A report on the public view of national news organizations. In the report, 72 percent of polled Republican Fox viewers rated the channel as "favorable", while 43 percent of polled Democratic viewers and 55 percent of all polled viewers shared that opinion. However, Fox was given the highest "unfavorable" rating of all national outlets studied (25 percent of all polled viewers). The report went on to say that "partisan differences in views of Fox News have increased substantially since 2007". A Public Policy Polling poll concluded in 2013 that positive perceptions of FNC had declined from 2010. 41% of polled voters said they trust it, down from 49% in 2010, while 46% said they distrust it, up from 37% in 2010. It
700-716: A stolen election, while Fox continued to broadcast such claims. Other communications showed Fox CEO Suzanne Scott stating that fact-checking such claims would alienate Fox viewers. Fox settled the lawsuit in 2023 by agreeing to pay Dominion $ 787.5 million and acknowledging the court ruling that Fox had broadcast false statements about Dominion. According to Pew Research Center , in 2019, 65 percent of Republicans and people who lean Republican trusted Fox News. In May 1985, Australian publisher Rupert Murdoch announced that he and American industrialist and philanthropist Marvin Davis intended to develop "a network of independent stations as
750-402: A viewership of 5.9 million, 5.1 million, and 5.0 million respectively. Between late 2005 and early 2006, Fox News saw a brief decline in ratings. One was in the second quarter of 2006, when it lost viewers for every prime-time program compared with the previous quarter. The audience for Special Report with Brit Hume , for example, dropped 19%. Several weeks later, in the wake of
800-485: Is done from Levin's personal studio in Virginia . Audio simulcasts of the channel are aired on SiriusXM Satellite Radio . In an October 11, 2009, in a New York Times article, Fox said its hard-news programming runs from "9 AM to 4 PM and 6 to 8 PM on weekdays". However, it makes no such claims for its other broadcasts, which primarily consist of editorial journalism and commentary. Fox News Channel began broadcasting in
850-442: Is expanding enormously". In February 1996, after former U.S. Republican Party political strategist and NBC executive Roger Ailes left cable television channel America's Talking (now MSNBC ), Murdoch asked him to start Fox News Channel. Ailes demanded five months of 14-hour workdays and several weeks of rehearsal shows before its launch on October 7, 1996. At its debut 17 million households were able to watch FNC; however, it
900-438: The 2006 North Korean missile test and the 2006 Lebanon War , Fox saw a surge in viewership and remained the top-rated cable news channel. Fox produced eight of the top ten most-watched nightly cable news shows, with The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes finishing first and second respectively. FNC ranked No. 8 in viewership among all cable channels in 2006, and No. 7 in 2007. The channel ranked number one during
950-464: The 720p resolution format on May 1, 2008. This format is available on all major cable and satellite providers. Fox News Media produces Fox News Sunday , which airs on Fox Broadcasting and re-airs on FNC. Fox News also produces occasional special event coverage that is broadcast on FBC. With the growth of the FNC, the company introduced a radio division, Fox News Radio , in 2003. Syndicated throughout
1000-532: The Democratic Party in a negative light. Critics have argued that the channel is damaging to the integrity of news overall. In 2009, Fox News denied bias in its news reporting. The channel's official position was that its reporting operates independently of its opinion journalism . Media analyst Brian Stelter , who has written extensively about the network, observed in 2021 that in more recent years it had adjusted its programming to present "less news on
1050-619: The Difference Between Sarah Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick" and "Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." Some of the other more than 50 short essays, includes "Wrong Woman, Wrong Message," by Gloria Steinem , "Our Polar Bears, Ourselves," by Mark Hertsgaard , and "Sarah Palin's Death Panels" by Robert Reich . Max Blumenthal , author of Republican Gomorrah (2009), includes an account of his meeting with Palin's "witch-hunting pastor" from Kenya , Thomas Muthee , "who urges his parishioners to crush 'the python spirit' of
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#17328591333211100-567: The Fox News archive is handled by ITN Source, the archiving division of ITN . FNC presents a variety of programming, with up to 15 hours of live broadcasting per day in addition to programming and content for the Fox Broadcasting Company . Most programs are broadcast from Fox News headquarters in New York City (at 1211 Avenue of the Americas ), in its streetside studio on Sixth Avenue in
1150-497: The Mind of Political Conservative Sarah Palin, a novelty book of 102 blank pages. The book, released by OR Books, a start-up founded by veteran publishers John G. H. Oakes and Colin Robinson, was published on November 17, 2009, the same day that Palin's own hardback Going Rogue: An American Life was released. According to their site, Oakes is the former publisher of the independent publishing house Four Walls Eight Windows , and Robinson
1200-426: The New York City studios) are broadcast from Fox News's Washington, D.C. studios, located on Capitol Hill across from Washington Union Station in a secured building shared by a number of other television networks, which includes NBC News and C-SPAN . The Next Revolution is broadcast from Fox News' Los Angeles bureau studio, which is also used for news updates coming from Los Angeles. Life, Liberty & Levin
1250-817: The Republican Party, its politicians, and conservative causes, while portraying the Democratic Party in a negative light. Fox News has been characterized by critics, commentators, and researchers as a propaganda organization and damaging to the integrity of news overall. Fox News has denied bias in its news reporting and the channel's official position is that its news reporting operates independently of its opinion journalism . The channel has knowingly endorsed false conspiracy theories to promote Republican and conservative causes. FNC maintains an archive of most of its programs. This archive also includes Movietone News series of newsreels from its now Disney-owned namesake movie studio, 20th Century Fox . Licensing for
1300-511: The U.S., and as of 2023 generates approximately 70% of its parent company's pre-tax profit. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan . Fox News provides a service to 86 countries and territories, with international broadcasts featuring Fox Extra segments during advertising breaks. The channel was created by Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 1996 to appeal to
1350-610: The United Kingdom in 1989. With the success of his efforts establishing Fox as a TV network in the United States, experience gained from Sky News and the turnaround of 20th Century Fox, Murdoch announced on January 30, 1996, that News Corp. would launch a 24-hour news channel on cable and satellite systems in the United States as part of a News Corp. "worldwide platform" for Fox programming: "The appetite for news – particularly news that explains to people how it affects them –
1400-488: The United States, the division provides short newscasts and talk radio programs featuring personalities from the television and radio divisions. In 2006, the company also introduced Fox News Talk , a satellite radio station featuring programs syndicated by (and featuring) Fox News personalities. Introduced in December 1995, the Fox News website features news articles and videos about national and international news. Content on
1450-447: The air and more opinions-about-the-news" throughout the day, on concerns it was losing viewers to more conservative competitors that were presenting such content. After Dominion Voting Systems initiated a defamation lawsuit against Fox regarding their reporting on the 2020 presidential election , Fox's internal communications were released. The communications showed that its presenters and senior executives privately doubted claims of
1500-623: The book a favorable review, describing it as "full of golden nuggets." Dunn concluded his remarks by stating "One thing is certain: You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs, being published by who else? Rupert Murdoch ." A reviewer writing in the San Francisco Chronicle said that the book contains "articles by some of the most thought provoking writers in America who have chronicled
1550-455: The book would initially only have two choices, to order the book as an ebook download for $ 10 or order a print-on-demand paperback for $ 16. Such low production costs Robinson believed would allow OR to promote the book heavily on the Internet, with perhaps some print advertising as well. Afterwards, OR Books hoped to entertain offers from reprint houses looking to buy the paperback rights. The book
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1600-554: The first prime-time GOP candidates' forum of the 2016 campaign on August 6. The debate reached a record-breaking 24 million viewers, by far the largest audience for any cable news event. A 2017 study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University found that Fox News was the third most-shared source among supporters of Donald Trump on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election , behind The Hill and Breitbart News . In 2018, Fox News
1650-430: The foibles and pratfalls of Sarah Palin." OR Books OR Books is a New York City -based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009. The company sells digital and print-on-demand books directly to the customer and focuses on creative promotion through traditional media and the Internet. On its site, OR Books states that it "embraces progressive change in politics, culture and
1700-416: The host (with on-screen text summarizing the position of the interviewer or speaker, and "bullet points" when a host was delivering commentary). Fox News also created the "Fox News Alert", which interrupted its regular programming when a breaking news story occurred. To accelerate its adoption by cable providers, Fox News paid systems up to $ 11 per subscriber to distribute the channel. This contrasted with
1750-456: The industry newsblog Shelf Awareness termed a "very significant...move," St. Mark’s Bookshop and OR Books announced a joint venture to enable the store’s customers to buy select books on OR’s list from the bookstore’s website. In April 2016, OR Books acquired UK publishing company Serif , following the death in 2015 of its founder Stephen Hayward, a former associate of Robinson's. In May 2016, OR Books and Counterpoint Press announced
1800-514: The news. Fox News Mobile is the portion of the FNC website dedicated to streaming news clips formatted for video-enabled mobile phones. In 2018, FNC announced that it would launch a subscription video on demand service known as Fox Nation . It serves as a companion service to FNC, carrying original and acquired talk, documentary, and reality programming designed to appeal to Fox News viewers. Some of its original programs feature Fox News personalities and contributors. In 2003, Fox News saw
1850-423: The news. During the evening, Fox featured opinion shows: The O'Reilly Report (later The O'Reilly Factor ), The Crier Report (hosted by Catherine Crier ) and Hannity & Colmes . From the beginning, FNC has placed heavy emphasis on visual presentation. Graphics were designed to be colorful and gain attention; this helped the viewer to grasp the main points of what was being said, even if they could not hear
1900-501: The normal practice, in which cable operators paid stations carriage fees for programming. When Time Warner bought Ted Turner 's Turner Broadcasting System , a federal antitrust consent decree required Time Warner to carry a second all-news channel in addition to its own CNN on its cable systems . Time Warner selected MSNBC as the secondary news channel, not Fox News. Fox News claimed this violated an agreement (to carry Fox News). Citing its agreement to keep its U.S. headquarters and
1950-606: The publishing company Four Walls Eight Windows and was subsequently publisher of Thunder's Mouth Press and co-publisher of Nation Books . He is publisher of the Evergreen Review . Colin Robinson, a former senior editor at Scribner , was previously managing director of Verso Books and publisher of The New Press . In September 2010, OR Books announced a partnership with a writers' collective known as Mischief & Mayhem, whose members include Dale Peck , Lisa Dierbeck, Joshua Furst , DW Gibson , and Choire Sicha . In what
2000-521: The total day. In the third quarter of 2014, the network was the most-watched cable channel during prime time hours. During the final week of the campaign for the United States elections, 2014 , Fox News had the highest ratings of any cable channel, news or otherwise. On election night itself, Fox News' coverage had higher ratings than that of any of the other five cable or network news sources among viewers between 25 and 54 years of age. The network hosted
2050-447: The unbeliever enemies by stomping on their necks." An additional component in Going Rouge is how "feminist considerations" were "magnified and distorted" by Palin's candidacy. The varied and "complex nuances of gender and feminist constructions raised by the Palin phenomenon" are addressed by Katha Pollitt , Amy Alexander, Amanda Fortini and Emily Bazelon , among others. The cover is
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2100-764: The way we do business." Not long after its founding in 2009, OR Books became known for publishing Going Rouge : Sarah Palin , An American Nightmare , a parody of Palin's autobiography Going Rogue : An American Life . Going Rouge became a best-seller as per The New York Times . Since then, the company has published books by Julian Assange , Moustafa Bayoumi , Medea Benjamin , Patrick Cockburn , Sue Coe , Simon Critchley , Lisa Dierbeck, Ariel Dorfman , Norman Finkelstein , Laura Flanders , Chris Lehmann, Gordon Lish , Bill McKibben , Eileen Myles , Yoko Ono , Barney Rosset , Douglas Rushkoff , Elissa Shevinsky , Burhan Sönmez , Jeanne Thornton , Slavoj Žižek , and others. According to OR's website, John Oakes co-founded
2150-520: The website is divided into politics, media, U.S., and business. Fox News' articles are based on the network's broadcasts, reports from Fox affiliates and articles produced by other news agencies, such as the Associated Press . Articles are usually accompanied by a video related to the article. Fox News Latino is the version aimed at a Hispanic audience, although presented almost entirely in English, with
2200-576: The week of April 15 to 21, 2013, Fox News, propelled by its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing , was the highest-ranked network on U.S. cable television, for the first time since August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States . January 2014 marked Fox News's 145th consecutive month as the highest-rated cable news channel. During that month, Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC combined in overall viewers in both prime time hours and
2250-645: The week of Barack Obama's election (November 3–9) in 2008, and reached the top spot again in January 2010 (during the week of the special Senate election in Massachusetts ). Comparing Fox to its 24-hour-news-channel competitors, in May 2010, the channel drew an average daily prime-time audience of 1.8 million viewers (versus 747,000 for MSNBC and 595,000 for CNN). In September 2009, the Pew Research Center published
2300-1320: The west wing of Rockefeller Center , sharing its headquarters with sister channel Fox Business Network . Fox News Channel has eight studios at its New York City headquarters that are used for its and Fox Business' programming: Studio B (used for Fox Business programming), Studio D (which has an area for studio audiences; no longer in current use), Studio E (used for Gutfeld! and The Journal Editorial Report ), Studio F (used for The Story with Martha MacCallum , The Five , Fox Democracy 2020, Fox & Friends , Outnumbered , The Faulkner Focus , and Fox News Primetime ), Studio G (which houses Fox Business shows, The Fox Report , Your World with Neil Cavuto , and Cavuto Live ), Studio H (Fox News Deck used for breaking news coverage, no longer in current use), Studio J (used for America's Newsroom , Hannity , Fox News Live , Fox & Friends First , and Sunday Morning Futures ) Starting in 2018 , Thursday Night Football had its pregame show, Fox NFL Thursday , originating from Studio F. Another Fox Sports program, First Things First , also broadcasts from Studio E. Other such programs (such as Special Report with Bret Baier , The Ingraham Angle , Fox News @ Night , Media Buzz , and editions of Fox News Live not broadcast from
2350-427: Was absent from the largest U.S. media markets of New York City and Los Angeles. Rolling news coverage during the day consisted of 20-minute single-topic shows such as Fox on Crime or Fox on Politics , surrounded by news headlines. Interviews featured facts at the bottom of the screen about the topic or the guest. The flagship newscast at the time was The Schneider Report , with Mike Schneider 's fast-paced delivery of
2400-453: Was also called the "most trusted" network by 34% of those polled, more than had said the same of any other network. On the night of October 22, 2012, Fox set a record for its highest-rated telecast , with 11.5 million viewers for the third U.S. presidential debate . In prime time the week before, Fox averaged almost 3.7 million viewers with a total day average of 1.66 million viewers. In prime time and total day ratings for
2450-490: Was eventually released on Amazon, achieving a sales rank of #825 in books for the week of December 14, 2009 and dropping to #7,309 for the week of January 29, 2010 ( Going Rogue , in contrast, was #58 that same week). Various news sources, including CNN and Fox News , have confused Going Rouge and Going Rogue in articles intended to discuss Palin's memoir. Writer Geoffrey Dunn, author of The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power , gave
2500-514: Was the top-rated cable network, averaging 2.5 million viewers in prime time. Murdoch, the executive chairman since 2016, said in 2023 that he would step down and hand responsibilities to his son, Lachlan . Suzanne Scott has been the CEO since 2018. Fox News has received criticism for its reporting. Its coverage has included biased and false reporting in favor of the Republican Party, its politicians, and conservative causes, while portraying
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