Why No Haiti Telethon on Fox News Friday Night?

I like both of them too. What is your husband going to be doing there? Annie

He's going to be part of the rebuilding. His brother's land development and construction company was contacted by someone in the government and he had a meeting with some folks last week. We don't have too many details yet but I do know that they're taking heavy equipment over to grind the rubble, generate electricity and rebuild roads. My husband owned a general contracting and roofing company for about 30 years so he has experience running multiple crews at one time. His brother has international experience which is probably why he was contacted. This will put a bunch of Big Brother's guys to work since the home building market is slow down here and my husband can put together a crew from here in Hooterville, too. I'm not real comfortable with the idea of him being so far away from home but he wants to do it.

Well, best of luck to them all! I think it's a great thing they're doing since conditions will be far from pleasant there, I'm sure, but they sure do have a lot of work to do! Annie

Taskr, I said to correct me if I'm wrong and I stand corrected. I'd honestly and sincerely not seen any of their coverage and I apologize if it seems like I was being unfairly critical about this. I will say that as much as I don't care for their political commentary they have always done well when it comes to "non-political" stories. I was also just curious as to why they didn't run the telethon. Annie

Good for you! I just thought it was strange that they didn't carry the telethon. I didn't watch the whole thing but I did watch some of the performances. Annie

I would really love to find a News program that gave the news truthfully from both sides. I like to make my own decisions with out some one shoving just one side of their choice/favorite down my throat. Do you know of one?

I think the problem is since we have so many 24/7 news stations they're all showing a bare minimum of "news" and mostly "commentary" with some "news" mixed in. I mean, and I'll even try to be fair to Fox News in this, all of the channels have their prime time shows with what they consider to be their "big names" which are opinion and discussion shows, not hard news programming. They all give some actual news reports and updates and then they discuss it. They'll sometimes have a panel where some will actually disagree with the host but nobody's what you'd call "objective". One place you always get unbiased reporting is C-Span. Now and then they have lines open so people can call in with comments but the moderators are always fair. Other than that, I don't know! I think the network news reports in the evening are unbiased but I'm sure there are many who would disagree with me on that. It's not the way it used to be! Annie

"Haitian Gold"? Could you elaborate on that, please?

Actually it's ABC that owns Disney, or the other way around. NBC and Universal are owned by the same parent company. I know NBC is struggling with their ratings, especially the entertainment division, and I must say rightly so since they haven't had many original for new series for years. Annie

Yes, it was on the Fox entertainment network. I was just curious and wondered if anything HAD been said about why the news channel didn't run it since the other ones did and NBC ran it on all of their stations (NBC, CNBC and MSNBC plus the cable channels owned by the same company). I'm not saying and I didn't say they were terrible for not running it, I was just curious. Also, I've already admitted to having been mistaken about Fox's coverage of the earthquake news. It was obviously just a coincidence but when I'd flipped it one for a few minutes here and there three nights in a row, during their prime time shows, that was when Sarah Palin was on. It was on O'Reilly, then Hannity and then Beck, whose may have been later than prime time, I'm not sure what time his show is rerun since I guess it's originally aired at 5 pm, right? Annie

The simple reason for NBC showing it on all of their networks that comes to mind first is that no one is watching any of their networks and they need the ratings pull of a star-studded event. The only reason anyone has watched NBC lately is to catch the insults that Conan O'Brien has been throwing at NBC. MSNBC is suffering greatly in the ratings. Fox gave viewers a choice, they could watch the regular commentary programmes or they could watch the telethon. No other network showed it on every cable channel they own. NBC also owns Disney, or rather Disney owns NBC, but they didn't show the telethon on the Disney Channel. The good reason for that is, the Disney channel already has high-rated programmes with a devoted audience.

Well it seems when Obama says jump, the media says how high? And it seems that everyone or those who have the loudest voices do what he wants, so what I am going to think? It seems that he is giving a lot more leeway and people do more what he wants then the other presidents. Why even when the World War 11 was on, and Roosevelt wanted America to help the Allies and enter the war sooner, there were some who said no, but here there is no World War, jusp an economic crisis caused mainly by giving loans to those who could not pay back and Obama was one of those who wanted these loans given to the unable to pay unless they won the lottery or worked harder and study crowd, Now when Obama says "Jump!" the media and much of the people do. What am I to think I was joking about the other station heads getting together and deciding not to tell the Fox Ceo, by the way. I do think that all the stations should not just be like obedient sheep and decide to just do the Haitian telethon. If it is because it is cheaper that way, it is a different story, but other networks could maybe have their own "Raise the money for the Haitians' or any other worthy cause, at a specific time or use local talent, holding bazaars, etc. Besides what if one station wants to raise money for Bangladash or for Rumania or the poor people in the Appalachians? Also what if the station had a prior commitment and could not get out of it? Did anyone think about that?

You're not really serious, are you? What does the President or anyone from the government for that matter have to do with a telethon for the people of Haiti? I don't think there could be anyone here in the states not aware that actor George Clooney is the one who first had the idea for a telethon and organized it in an amazingly short time. He's the one who contacted all of the other entertainers, athletes and a few political figures. He'd done the same thing following the 9/11 attacks. There's no possible way any station would assume President Obama had "given the order". Annie

anniepa, George Clooney to the best of my knowledge only did a telethon for the people of New Orleans because of Hurrcaine Katrina. I watch Fox News and it has been non-stop with news coverage of the Haiti earthquake. I do not think that they needed televise the telethon to show their support. They did show it on their Fox affiliates though and that is fine with me. Sincerely in Christ, Leesa C. Eph.2:8,9