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July 20th, 2010

Conservative Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck says he has macular dystrophy, a degenerative eye disease, which could lead him to go blind.

Beck made the disclosure to an audience attending his “American Revival” tour in Salt Lake City. How dire is it?

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March 4th, 2010

What are the chances an outlet that once fabricated a Lindsay Lohan reality show and just last week steamed Kelly Osbourne for misrepresenting her comments would get a story involving Britney Spears and Paris Hilton wrong?

(Answer: very high.)

“Britney Spears’ Boyfriend ‘Hates’ Her Music” blares a FoxNews.com headline for an item about, of all things, Hilton’s 29th birthday party.

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February 25th, 2010

Here’s a case of rotten journalism twisting a good message into something ugly.

In an interview with Us Weekly, newly svelte Kelly Osbourne talked about her battles with weight gain. “I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict,” the Dancing with the Stars alum said. “I will never understand that.”

Again, Osbourne said that other people gave her more hell for being overweight than for substance addiction. But that’s not the implication of stories floating around the Web right now.

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February 11th, 2010

Cable news king Bill O’Reilly is writing an Abraham Lincoln biography.

The Fox News host’s “Killing Lincoln,” co-written with Martin Dugard, is due out in fall 2011. It will be published by Henry Holt.

According to a statement from the publisher, the book will take readers “into Ford’s Theater and into the mind of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and on the manhunt to find and bring to justice the killer of one of our greatest presidents.”

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January 11th, 2010

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has just signed a deal to join Fox News as a contributor. According to reports, she’ll appear on various programs, but will not have a show of her own.

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October 24th, 2009

The Fox411 column writes, “Lindsay Lohan might want to think about getting a part time job that actually pays,” claiming she “has not been paid for her work” for the fashion house Emanuel Ungaro. She’s working for free these days?

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October 23rd, 2009

Is there new, ironic meaning to “… Baby One More Time”? Well, the people who would have you believe Justin Timberlake’s friends won’t talk to him now claim his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears is “so out of it” she no longer knows what hour it is.

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October 20th, 2009

Montag Wanted Cash To Attend Sister’s Birthday Party,” blares a headline on Fox News’s website.

According to the blog’s lead, “Heidi Montag Refused to Attend Her Sister’s Birthday Party Without Being Paid.” Really?

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