Don’t ask Fox News to help those in need. Fox News doesn’t give a $hit

Earlier today (well, yesterday, now it’s past midnight), I commented on a Media Matters report that revealed how Fox News’s three top-rated shows (Glenn Beck, O’Reilly Factor and Hannity) devoted less than seven minutes of collective air time to the Haitian disaster the very day following the ’quake, as compared to MSNBC, whose own top three shows (Hardball, Countdown and Rachel Maddow) spent over two hours in total on Haiti. This understandably speaks rather unflatteringly against Fox Newz (a broadcaster of which then resorted to some staggeringly bad cartoons in retaliation). After all, they don’t want people to see evidence that actually shows what a bunch of uncaring, politicizing ideologues they are, right?

Well, in case that wasn’t enough to fully convince you that Fox really just doesn’t give a crap about the poor and the damned of Haiti, here’s one particularly large nail in your hypothetical doubt’s proverbial coffin. This/last evening, just about every major TV channel in America agreed to interrupt their regularly scheduled programming to broadcast the Hope for Haiti Now telethon, a landmark global event spearheaded by George Clooney and which aimed to defeat even the impressive Band Aid of ’85, so I heard.

Except for … well, take a guess.

Our crack C&L team has checked around the dial and compiled a list of channels participating:
CBS
ABC
NBC
CW
FOX
TNT
Weather Channel
MSNBC
CNBC
CNN
HBO
Showtime
Major League Baseball Network
Style Network
E! Entertainment Network
ReelzChannel
TNT
Comedy Central
Oxygen
Soap Opera channel
Bravo
National Geographic Channel
Sleuth
G4
CMT
TV1
BET
MTV
MTV2
VH1
GMC
FUSE
Current
PBS
It's even streaming live on IMDb, Hulu and YouTube.

But not for FNC or their sister business channel. They're showing Billo and crew.

Because ignorant morons’ hot air sells better than a worldwide relief telethon, obviously. (Oh, wait …)

Once again, for anyone who needed the closest you’ll ever get to concrete proof, short of an open admission, that Fox is helmed by heartless ghouls, here’s your answer.

(For the record: I know and/or regularly watch 22 of those channels, along with (of course) the three sites mentioned. You?)

(via @todayspolitics)