Fox News is destroying democracy

And everything would be perfect if we all would only toe the woke lefty line.

 

The article itself is what im talking about. Its there to keep the coals hot. You think these websites with authors work for free? I guarantee that site is paid by a competitor to write it. And it keeps people in their bucket, win-win for the powerful.

 

good post. I’ve checked this chart over the years. Fox News Channel has really dropped on reliability. A few years back it was in the upper quadrant.

 

Roger Ailes had a plan and a mission when he got started at Fox News. Initially, it was to provide a counterpoint to what he considered mainstream liberal media. But the primary mission, which Ailes was pretty open about later in life, was to serve as a political weapon for conservatives.

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/roger-ailes-nixon-gawker-documents/352363/

These are articles from over 10 years ago, and things have only gotten worse since then.

I by no means say that liberal media is innocent, and they certainly have gotten worse IMO as time has gone by and move more to online platforms, but Fox News was always thought of as a weapon for conservatives, not so much as a news source. And it's important to recognize that distinction. Because it matters.

 

The conspiracy theories provided by Fox/tucker are repeated by maga followers and are damaging to our democracy. Some real nutty conspiracy theories like fbi was behind the Jan 6th attack on our capital. the attack and much of fox was all in support of a political figure - trump.

| PolitiFact

 

That's why I specifically said a major figure on the networks. The guy who said that was a guest on MSNBC and you can always find that some guest said something ridiculous somewhere.
Carlson is Fox's most watched person.

 

The host was not much better. Can't believe you are using the guest as an excuse.

 

I didn't bring up the guest.

 

OK, I'll bite.
What was CNN's lie, for example, about Bubba Wallace?

 

I've said this before. I used to be at the gym at night with both networks on overhead TVs. CNN clearly focused on the latest Trump outrage too much. But it also covered the news of the day.
Fox - at least Carlson and Hannity during primetime - were always nothing but "The left's hysteria!!! The liberals taking your freedom ..."
I kept seeing comments from conservative friends on Facebook how about how they expected to lose so many of their constitutional freedoms the day Biden took office. They didn't come up with that on their own ...

If you look at the two websites, Fox routinely puts headlines about negative stories, particularly crime, that say "Dem-run city ... liberal city ... blue state ...."
I don't recall any headlines on CNN or any other major news source that described the Uvalde masscre as taking place in a red state or in a GOP-run city.
But maybe I just missed them.

 

So fox = Hannity and Tucker?
Come on. OReilly used to be pretty good and fair.
I have watched cnn and it’s pretty clear what they think of guys like me.

 

This is a very biased show. I’m unable to watch it - infuriating.

 

Except the Russia, Russia, Russia thing was real, no matter what you have been brainwashed to believe by Faux News, Breitbarf or BozoWars.

My source . . . . the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee.

 

Except the Russia, Russia, Russia thing was real.

See for yourself from the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee . . . .

Press | Intelligence Committee

 

I miss that comment. It appears to be attributed to Elie Mystal. He speaks truth

 

Except the Russia, Russia, Russia thing was real.

From the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee . . . .