esmith
Veteran Member
Well it appears that Fox News has once again crushed their cable news rivals.
https://www.worldnewspolitics.com/2017/03/29/fox-news-makes-history/
https://www.worldnewspolitics.com/2017/03/29/fox-news-makes-history/
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Fox News Crushes Cable News Channels
- Thread starter esmith
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I take this with a grain of salt. There is a specific demographic of people who use cable news as their primary news source in lieu of web sources. If I were to guess it would be the older/more impoverished demographic. With that in mind, this is hardly a surprise.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Info-tainment is king. Especially the kind that gets reactive people riled up.
QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
All that indicates is that Fox News viewers like to be spoon fed their news from the same source, where as others like to review numerous different news sources and actually make up their own minds as to what is accurate and what isn't.
Cobol
Code Jockey
Fox reports of political news events are often so at odds with what other mainstream news outlets report , one wonders if it is operating in a parallel universe of alternative facts. The big loser unfortunately is the Fox audience. They tune in for the news but instead get indoctrination. They trust Fox and are persuaded by its propaganda. Political propaganda may make Fox a great deal of money but it is profoundly damaging to America’s political institutions.
Of all the mass media news outlets, Fox is very much the bad actor. It is the agent that poisons the well for all the outlets. Worse, it poisons America’s political culture. This predicament raises a most troubling question about Fox. Should a propaganda outlet posing as a news channel be afforded the full protection of the First Amendment in the Constitution?
With Trump as President, and both he and Fox accusing news media as being inherently dishonest, the country needs to debate what constitutes honest journalism and its practice.
If honesty is sacrificed to ideology and propaganda, can the grand American experiment of democracy survive?
Fox Watch - A long list of examples of Fox News lying, misleading, or generally making the world a worse place
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jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
More importantly, it strengths the irony when Fox blasts things like " the mainstream media"...
No one is watched more consistently, or more often - which is the very definition of mainstream. All of their criticisms of are actually directed towards themselves.
As long as you pay close enough attention, people will tell you everything you ever wanted to know.
"Fox News - We Report; You Decide."
Their careless use of facts is stated, openly, in their tag line.
No one is watched more consistently, or more often - which is the very definition of mainstream. All of their criticisms of are actually directed towards themselves.
As long as you pay close enough attention, people will tell you everything you ever wanted to know.
"Fox News - We Report; You Decide."
Their careless use of facts is stated, openly, in their tag line.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
So if enough pigs eat swill, it ceases to be swill?
I'm sorry, I believe you mean "alternative people" and "alternate food".
Altfish
Veteran Member
What is it about flies and sh1t
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
All the waste that other animals excrete is highly nutritious to flies. They also like to lay their eggs in it for this reason.
Interpret the metaphor to taste.
I am curious what this means to you.
I've never had much interest in broadcast news. Before the internet I nearly always used various print sources and afterwards, well, the zillions of new sources.
My only real experience with Fox was during the lead up to the Iraq invasion and the lies and dissembling was staggering to me. I watched it a few times a week though, because my dad was ill and I drove up to be with him as often as possible. He was buying the lies hook line and sinker which made me insane. He really believed that it was to protect this country, save the Iraqis, and was a noble effort to democratize the Middle East. And he refused to even look at anything that contradicted the semi-official Republican news agency Fox. I came to thoroughly hate that station.
Tom
esmith
Veteran Member
Daemon Sophic
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esmith
Veteran Member
Poor Rachel, maybe she should do more stories like President Trump's 2005 tax return.
Daemon Sophic
Avatar in flux
You really have no clue as to how ironically fitting your response is, do you?Poor Rachel, maybe she should do more stories like President Trump's 2005 tax return.
esmith
Veteran Member
No, why don't you enlighten me.You really have no clue as to how ironically fitting your response is, do you?
Skwim
Veteran Member
That Fox News is drawing big numbers isn't surprising at all. Simply look at who's making all the controversial political news, the Republican conservatives' favorite king of the castle, Donny. And it ain't good news either, so who do you turn to for reassurance that Donny ain't the numbskull he appears to be, and that your vote wasn't wasted after all? Certainly not people like MSNBC who are holding Donny's feet to the fire, but Fox News, the comfort blanket for all the conservative knuckle heads across the country who convinced themselves that Donny had their best interests at heart. "Please tell us Foxy that everythin's goin' to be alright. Pleeease."
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