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Fox News - Faux News - Fixed News
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I sometimes forget how truly awful FOX News is until I happen to catch it flipping channels. Things have become so much worse since when I lived in the US. There is this shrill and incredulous tone to the way they speak on FOX. Everything is confrontational. Instead of creating a dialogue, they are looking for a kill or gotcha moment. It's so unpleasant and makes me really unhappy for the USA. There is this really polarising "us vs. them" "winner vs. loser" mentality now, and it's being perpetuated by FOX. If they say something long enough, it becomes true...such as "Bush won Florida" or "Kerry was a coward in Vietnam". Never mind the facts.
I really fear for civil society in the USA with this kind of influence. It's creates a cult-like following with no independent thought. Nothing more than soundbites, slogans and propaganda. At the time I thought people like Reagan, Dole, even Bush Sr. were destructive forces to the US. I was so wrong and would do anything for Republicans like that now. These people were willing to reach across the aisle, FOX has changed the rules. It's about destroying the other party now and crippling the country in order to "win".
Unfortunately, the Democrats are afraid of FOX. They now need an equivalent mouthpiece because the only thing a bully like this understands is an equivalent force.
I really fear for civil society in the USA with this kind of influence. It's creates a cult-like following with no independent thought. Nothing more than soundbites, slogans and propaganda. At the time I thought people like Reagan, Dole, even Bush Sr. were destructive forces to the US. I was so wrong and would do anything for Republicans like that now. These people were willing to reach across the aisle, FOX has changed the rules. It's about destroying the other party now and crippling the country in order to "win".
Unfortunately, the Democrats are afraid of FOX. They now need an equivalent mouthpiece because the only thing a bully like this understands is an equivalent force.
I ran across a thread someplace , "People who watch Fox New are dumber than people that watch no news at all" which I thought was pretty funny. They have some truly smarmy people working there.
All correct. FoxNews is run by Roger Ailes. Former media consultant to a number of Republican presidents. Now he's taken that job to an entire new level, a 24 hr fraudcast. He's taken journalism to new lows and totally up-ended the role of news in a democracy. Of course one can say he's only doing what his boss, Rupert Murdoch, wants him to do. And you're right all that matters is your side wins.
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"I really fear for civil......etc." Never fear!! There are 300 million of us. 5 - 7 million watch Fox on a regular basis -- that leaves 293 million of us that still hold some reasonable sense of sanity and balanced thought! I believe in the 1920's the KKK at its heighth of popularity had like 15 million people! We were a much smaller nation then and THEIR influence was something genuinely to be feared. Eventually......in a few years FOX will be an entertainment channel.
Does that mean there are a lot more ignorant people than we first thought?
There is no other explanation for Bush's 2nd term. And there is no other explanation for Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and a host of other tea-baggers.
Only at Fox do you get fired for being right. With Fox keeping the base happy has always been a higher priority than getting the story right. So, because getting the story right made the base unhappy, the people who got the story right must be punished.
No one person is more responsible for destroying democracies all over the world than Rupert Murdoch.
No one person is more responsible for destroying democracies all over the world than Rupert Murdoch.
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Rupert's wayward son, James, speaks the truth. "Those outlets that propagate lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years.”
The most hideous thing is that Murdoch has essentially destroyed the country over the last 20 years. Conservatives maneuvered to get this man citizenship so he could do just what he's doing and radicalize thru 24/7 propaganda the country. It is nauseating what Fox has done to the country. Friends and people I admired and cared for long ago I will not even bother talking to now. They are completely different people thanks to FOX.
Any discomfort to treasonous and overall monstrous human being Rupert Murdoch directly translates to my pleasure. Running the biggest propaganda outfit the country has ever seen was bound to fail one day.
Analysis: TV news is realigning, with Fox's ratings sagging and CNN's soaring - CNN
Fox News got crushed in the Inauguration Day ratings, falling 77% from 2017
Analysis: TV news is realigning, with Fox's ratings sagging and CNN's soaring - CNN
Fox News got crushed in the Inauguration Day ratings, falling 77% from 2017
Couldn't happen to a better overall buffoon.
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"Hannity's Ratings Down The Toilet"... I am willing to donate a precious roll of toilet paper, if it will help with the "process".
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Let me guess. CNN is nothing like Fox News? If you as a journalist makes an opinion, you are no longer a journalist. You are a commentator. We need less of those and more journalists. But people’s love for reality tv is what turned these channels into the shit show mass manipulation machines they are now.
Fox is pure propaganda pioneered by the Nazi's Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Has CNN been sued like Fox for promoting bullshit stories? I may have missed it. Or have studies show watching CNN makes you dumber like Fox?
Lawsuits Take the Lead in Fight Against Disinformation
Defamation cases have made waves across an uneasy right-wing media landscape, from Fox to Newsmax.
In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts, public pressure campaigns and liberal outrage could not: curbing the flow of misinformation in right-wing media.
Fox Business canceled its highest rated show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” on Friday after its host was sued as part of a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit. On Tuesday, the pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax cut off a guest’s rant about rigged voting machines. Fox News, which seldom bows to critics, has run fact-checking segments to debunk its own anchors’ false claims about electoral fraud.
This is not the typical playbook for right-wing media, which prides itself on pugilism and delights in ignoring the liberals who have long complained about its content. But conservative outlets have rarely faced this level of direct assault on their economic lifeblood.
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Litigation represents a new front in the war against misinformation, a scourge that has reshaped American politics, deprived citizens of common facts and paved the way for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Fox News, for instance, paid millions last year to settle a claim from the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member falsely accused by Fox hosts of leaking emails to WikiLeaks.
Yes the "economic lifeblood" of lies and slander for the rubes now requires a new calculus. Stay tuned. Defamation cases have made waves across an uneasy right-wing media landscape, from Fox to Newsmax.
In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts, public pressure campaigns and liberal outrage could not: curbing the flow of misinformation in right-wing media.
Fox Business canceled its highest rated show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” on Friday after its host was sued as part of a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit. On Tuesday, the pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax cut off a guest’s rant about rigged voting machines. Fox News, which seldom bows to critics, has run fact-checking segments to debunk its own anchors’ false claims about electoral fraud.
This is not the typical playbook for right-wing media, which prides itself on pugilism and delights in ignoring the liberals who have long complained about its content. But conservative outlets have rarely faced this level of direct assault on their economic lifeblood.
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Litigation represents a new front in the war against misinformation, a scourge that has reshaped American politics, deprived citizens of common facts and paved the way for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Fox News, for instance, paid millions last year to settle a claim from the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member falsely accused by Fox hosts of leaking emails to WikiLeaks.
