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Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O'Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department's internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man's lady.
“Gawker has been lying about Fox News for several years,” a Fox spokesperson told Adweek when reached for comment about the story. “We are not going to dignify this with any further comment.”
In the past week—before the Gawker story posted—FoxNews.com and morning show Fox & Friends reported that Gawker’s traffic had dropped 75 percent in the last year. (As Forbes' Jeff Bercovici pointed out, though, Fox had gotten its numbers wrong. The figures, from Compete.com, actually showed Gawker's traffic down 37 percent year-over-year. And Quantcast, another service that tracks Web traffic, shows a slight uptick in Gawker visitors year-over-year). On TV, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy described Gawker as having been “mildly popular” at one point, and, as Politico notes, the Fox website listed Gawker as No. 1 on its list of "Formerly Popular Sites That Are Dead or Dying." Those stories prompted Gawker to allege that Fox was preemptively bashing the site because the channel knew Cook was working on a negative piece.
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WayneH wrote: Why not gawking at the bias stories on Fox and ask who funds Fox?
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