Two years ago, today, Fox News showed their complete lack of ethics and Photoshop skills with these edits of photos of New York Times editor Steven Reddicliffe and reporter Jacques Steinberg.

According to Alexa.com, which tracks web traffic metrics, demographics, and more, FoxNews.com ranks 10th in the News category. Here is the current top ten web sites, according to Alexa:

1. Yahoo News
2. BBC Newsline Ticker
3. CNN
4. BBC News
5. My Yahoo
6. Google News
7. NY Times
8. Weather.com
9. MSNBC
10. Fox News

Contrast the above rankings with those from Compete.com, another web site analytics tool. The web sites from above have been re-ranked depending on number of unique visitors, tracked by Compete:

1. Yahoo News – 36,654,823
2. CNN – 29,188,144
3. Weather.com – 28,356,573
4. My Yahoo – 23,930,896
5. NY Times – 16,677,000
6. Google News – 14,949,452
7. Fox News – 10,121,190
8. BBC Newsline Ticker – 8,097,821
9. BBC News – 5,274,688
10. MSNBC – 2,806,653

Keep in mind that both of the above rankings is subject to error and that earlier this year Nielsen Online ranked Fox News sixth behind MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo, AOL and the New York Times.

Bill O’Reilly‘s web site currently has a poll asking, “Which news agency do you trust the least?” Fox News Channel is conveniently missing…

Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal, has reached out to other newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post and Hearst Corp. Since Murdoch’s decision to charge users to access content on the Wall Street Journal’s web site, he has apparently realized that it will only work if the other big players make the same decision. So, he wants to create a consortium that would charge for online news and also sue anyone that uses content for more than fair use. This, essentially, amounts to price fixing and publishers want antitrust laws changed so they can survive.

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In a May 8 broadcast, Former district court judge Andrew Napolitano, now a Fox News commentator, comments on a New York Times article about the Bush Administration authorizing torture. Napolitano agrees that, if the NY Times article is accurate, then Bush “committed a felony for each act of torture he authorized and which was carried out.”

“We’re a country of laws and not of men. And when people break the law, no matter what their motivation is, they should be prosecuted. Would a jury take into account the motivation? Of course it would. But is the motivation a defense to law breaking? It is not.”

This is becoming an increasingly important indication of global news audience ratings because more and more people get their news online. Nielsen Online has released their ratings for Top Global News Sites, by Unique Visitors for March 2009. FoxNews.com places sixth, behind MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo, AOL and the New York Times. Here are the top ten:

1. MSNBC Digital Network – 39,900,000
2. CNN Digital Network – 38,724,000
3. Yahoo! News – 37,902,000
4. AOL News – 23,604,000
5. NYTimes.com – 20,118,000
6. Fox News Digital Network – 16,791,000
7. Tribune Newspapers – 16,513,000
8. Google News – 13,668,000
9. McClatchy Newspaper Network – 12,508,000
10. ABCNEWS Digital Network – 12,189,000

If you recall, Jesse Watters is a producer of The O’Reilly Factor who was recently involved in the harassment of ThinkProgress writer Amanada Terkel. The hypocritical producer, whose apparent job includes stalking people and ambushing them to further O’Reilly’s agenda. Over 80% of the past dozen targets have been considered liberal or critical of Republicans.

Well, one could call this irony, but it’s really not unexpected… The New York Times tried, repeatedly, to interview Jesse Watters. Watters repeatedly denied. You see, that’s not irony. It’s simply hypocrisy.

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