NEW YORK — Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck says he’s been diagnosed with an eye disease that could eventually blind him. The conservative commentator told an audience attending his “American Revival” tour over the weekend in Salt Lake City that a doctor told him he has the degenerative disease macular dystrophy.

From HuffingtonPost.com: Former White House green jobs czar Van Jones — best known, perhaps, for his messy departure from the Obama administration — urged a room full of student progressive activists on Wednesday to turn off “the little idiot box” [cable news] that was trying to “depress them” and to ignore the “fearmongers” who peddle […]

From HuffingtonPost.com: Fox News video of President Obama’s speech this weekend at West Point omits cadets’ applause after the President discussed ending the Iraq War.

From Deadline.com: I hear Fox is canceling The Wanda Sykes Show Wanda Sykesafter one season.

From MIJE.org: Fox News Channel was the only cable news channel not to carry the funeral service for Dr. Dorothy Height Thursday morning, at which President Obama, Cabinet members, congressional and civil rights leaders were in evidence.

From BlackVoices.com: Glenn Beck thinks social or economic justice are code words for Nazism or communism, and he called President Barack Obama a racist, but he can’t get enough of Madea?

Recently the head of Fox, Rupert Murdoch was asked if Fox News should be supporting the Tea Party. He replied: No, I don’t think we should be supporting the tea party or any other party. I’d like to investigate what you’re saying before I have any…

Yesterday the mother of Gregory Giusti, the man who was arrested for threatening the life of Nancy Pelosi, was on ABC news. She seemed to blame Fox News violent rhetoric for his actions.