Topic: FOX News Network LLC

Don't Treat Me Like A Pre-Schooler -- OK, Do

In a recent report from Fox News and WebMD, research on preschool-aged children comes to an interesting conclusion: A new study shows that children whose mothers supported their autonomy by giving them responsibilities and offering ...READ»

The Limits of Synergy?

According to The Guardian newspaper in the UK, Fox News threatened to sue Simpsons creator Matt Groening over a spoof of the news channel in a recent episode of his popular cartoon sitcom -- which runs on sister channel Fox ...READ»

Fox News Eats Words on EATR Robot

Fox News corrects itself: No, a biomass eating robot will not be munching on "dead bodies."READ»

EATR: A Robot That'll Forage Its Own Fuel

The Pentagon is developing a new robot that can power itself with biomass--and, as Fox News gleefully conjectures, dead people.READ»

The Limits of Synergy? II

Alison, I'm sooooo glad you posted that piece about Fox Entertainment and Fox News. Who knew synergy had such a dark side? Anyhow, the disputed material in question is just too good not to pull out and highlight. Here it is: "The ...READ»

Do We Really Want Our News to be Fair & Balanced?

I think the news should always be fair. But I think the news-consuming public, to a significant degree, is saying that it doesn't really want balance. That's especially true when it comes to blogs, with people self-selecting ...READ»

Cavorting With Cavuto

How the host of cable's highest-rated business show brings the market to the masses.READ»

Seth MacFarlane’s Stirs Up New Trouble -- and Racks Up Another Hit

Did Family Guy go too far in its recent episode that suggested Nazis would have supported the McCain-Palin ticket? Does Seth MacFarlane care? Not likely, if his continuing string of hits is any indication.READ»

• Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire
• Breaking Down Family Guy's Billions

Your First Seven Seconds

Media expert Roger Ailes gives advice on making great first impressionsREAD»

Snakes at the Box Office

Snakes on a Plane, one of the most hyped movies of the year, opened this weekend to very mediocre results. Chances are you've heard about SoaP if you’ve either a) left your house since last winter, or b) allowed anything to come ...READ»

Sex in the Workplace

How to avoid becoming the next David Letterman.READ»

Power

"I've never seen a time like this," says Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and, for the past 20 years, one of the greatest architects of power in the country. Ailes has a gift: He knows what makes people stars. He's most ...READ»

Fair and Balanced

So, Fox News is suing Al Franken for using their trademarked phrase "Fair and Balanced" in the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The lawsuit refers to Franken as ...READ»

A Wall Street Journal Parody That Hits Too Close To Home

Under-caffeinated readers of the Wall Street Journal might almost have been duped this morning by an interloper at newsstands nationwide. A parody of the monolothic paper, entitled My Wall Street Journal -- a pun on NewsCorp's other ...READ»

Ten Questions to Answer to Drive Innovation

Radical innovation is going to be a critical component in a leader’s toolkit in the future, and this does not mean that you “try to innovate” over a week-end brainstorming retreat. True innovation happens by disrupting the ...READ»

So, Design is Biased By Class. Now What?

The South-by-Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) brings together many of the best and brightest minds in the technology, design, and communications/entertainment world for four days of panels and parties. The crowd here seems to ...READ»

HSBC Lending Update

Every time we turn on the TV, all we see are gloomy things about our economy. Debt is out of control and no one is paying it back!READ»

Scary Movie

A Canadian documentary asserts that the modern-day corporation meets the criteria of a psychopath.READ»

Made to Stick: The Gripping Statistic

We're awash in data. Here's how to make yours matter.READ»

The Gripping Statistic: How to Make Your Data Matter

We're awash in data. Here's how to make yours matter.READ»

• How Comedians Clarify Brain-Fuzzing Stats

Ten Critical Questions to Answer to Drive Innovation

If you like this article, you are going to love the upcoming teleconference: The Future of Business from the Minds of Ten Top Professionals Radical innovation is going to be a critical component in a leader’s toolkit ...READ»

Six Viral Articles to Make You a Health Care Expert

Whether you think public-option health care is a panacea or a slippery slope, you can't deny that the issue has prompted plenty of dialogue (and, okay, invective.) Rather than keeping up on all the bloviating, here are six viral ...READ»

The Worldly Investor, David S. Waddell

Weekly Strategic Insight Friday, October 10, 2008 Rubber Room It would be an understatement to call this market period unprecedented. All of the economic, fundamental and technical research cannot explain the ...READ»

Oscar the Grouch's Birthday

Does Oscar the Grouch really celebrate anything? With grumbling perhaps! One of TV's most famous curmudgeons would rather kvetch his way through today, his birthday, and this year, which marks Sesame Street's 40th year on ...READ»

Entrepreneurship: Making Money On The Obese

I'm currently reading economist Tyler Cowen's book, Discover Your Inner Economist, and the first chapter deals with the effectiveness of monetary incentives. Money, he argues, isn't always a useful tool in altering human behavior; ...READ»