FoxNewsPorn.com Banned From Digg

CULVER CITY, Calif. — Last week, mainstream video production company Brave New Films (BNF) launched new parody site FoxNewsPorn.com and, within 24 hours, got banned from web news aggregator Digg.com and made YouTube’s “18 and over” list.

FoxNewsPorn.com features a “Fox Attacks: Decency” video trailer made up of provocative video clips from conservative Fox News Channel. A throbbing techno soundtrack underscored a tongue-in-cheek voiceover that says, “We don’t let our conservative values get in the way of showing you hot, young bodies.”

While Digg asserted that the Fox News Porn content was blocked because it violated their terms of service forbidding “adult content,” BNF’s producer Jesse Haff said that many sites featuring adult content make it onto Digg, and that the ban may have had more to do with Digg’s recent partnership with the Wall Street Journal. Multimedia mogul Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Wall Street Journal, owns Fox News Channel.

“Once the site launched, I submitted it to various social bookmarking sites, including Digg,” Haff said. “The submission quickly appeared on the Digg's homepage, only to be deleted and our account banned. I emailed Digg, thinking the submission was mistaken for a real porn site, only to be told the site is ‘adult content,’ and is against their terms of service, ‘even though it was broadcast on Fox.’”

However, within 24 hours of the ban, Digg editors lifted the block and sent an apology to BNF owners.

BNF founder Robert Greenwald said his company uses “cutting-edge new Internet video campaigns, creating a quick-strike capability that challenges corporate media with the truth and empowers political action nationwide.” The grassroots video campaigns have featured exposes on various conservatives: an “Impeach Gonzales” video that got more than 300,000 hits on YouTube and “The REAL Rudy [Guiliani]” clip that had more than 515,000 views.

Reportedly, when officials at Fox News found out that the parody site had received more than 500,000 views, they sent an email to Greenwald that said, “Can you quote us so not giving a shit?”

“Looks like we got to Fox this time, and it wasn't a debate about policy in Iran that did it, or a video displaying their racism, or even our coverage of their abject hypocrisy on environmental issues,” Greenwald said on Alternet.org. “No, what got the attack dogs at Fox hungry and looking for flesh was none other than an exposé of their smut peddling.”

With the help of staffers at Newhounds.us, Greenwald said that it was easy to come up with enough Fox News video clips to construct the satirical “porn” site, pointing out that the video clips were racy enough to be banned from Digg as “pornographic” content.

Greenwald currently is urging individuals to contact network advertisers and ask them to pull their ads from Fox News broadcasts.

“Satire and parody aside, we think this is extremely objectionable, misogynistic content. We still don't understand how Fox is allowed to call this ‘news,’” Greenwald said. “So let's make this campaign count and hit Fox where it hurts — their fair and balanced sheet.”

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