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Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News

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Activists are tuning out, telling David Freedlander the network isn’t ‘as fair and balanced as I thought.‘

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Is Fox News going soft?

That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying, and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

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“Particularly after the election,...

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