I dont knwo if u consider this dirt, but they threatened this comedian Al Franken with a lawsuit because he used their trademarked "Fair and balanced" phrase on his new book.  his whole book was called "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right".  He claimed he wanted to be a political commentator, and Fox News aid "His views lack any serious depth or insight"

Read the whole thing here it also has some stuff on Bill Oreilly's book.

And in my book, what fox news threatened to do is DIRT!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46985-2003Aug11?language=printer
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Sandy Clark
  To: CF-Community
  Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:42 PM
  Subject: RE: Need some dirt on Fox News

  Here's some links I got from googling "Fox News" wrong.  you might want to
  try some variations
  Disclaimer, I haven't read these through

  http://www.thetip.org/art_Fox_News_vs_Al_Franken_474_icle.html

  This one looks good!
  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html

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  From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:45 PM
  To: CF-Community
  Subject: Need some dirt on Fox News

  I was listening to a discussion at lunch where one person claimed that CNN
  is completely biased and are guilty of lying and cannot be trusted.

  (Peter Arnot was given as the example).

  Fox News was held up as the paragon of News Virtue. Completely unbiased, and
  have never been guilty of getting a story wrong even on accident, and
  certainly not on purpose to forward an agenda (since they don't have an
  agenda).

  (This is a slight exaggeration, but not by much)

  Besides Giraldo (who has been accused of lying on the air about what he saw
  and where he was), can anyone give me actual concrete examples of Fox
  getting a story wrong?

  (Also leave out Fox's coverage of the entire Iraq/Bush thing, since tat
  won't be allowed in any argument)

  Thanks for any help.
  Jerry Johnson

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