Open Book
The FOX News Channel News We Can Use
From an entry in The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95), containing “all the schemes, scams, and dirty tricks used to achieve victory since Richard Nixon commissioned the first edition in 1972” and recently stolen from the White House by cyber satirist Andy Borowitz ’80 of www.borowitzreport.com: “A wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican National Committee, the FOX News Channel has been an effective tool in the election campaigns of Republican candidates.…In the early days of the FOX News Channel, there were technical glitches that often delayed the transmission of propaganda from Republican officeholders and candidates to the FOX News broadcast headquarters in New York City.…To eliminate this problem, we have now developed a new automated system that will enable you to get your words into the FOX anchors’ mouths in a matter of seconds:”
[See PDF for book excerpt.]
