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Fox News has stopped reporting on Coronavirus

17 points by dvasdekis 7y ago

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austhrow743 7y ago
Makes just as much sense to me that being concerned about corona virus is something they've identified as being associated with the blue tribe, and have decided to cut it out all on their own.
- _bxg1 7y ago
  Getting infected to own the libs
  - whatanattitude 7y ago
    Go look at foxnews clown. There’s plenty of corona articles.
29athrowaway 7y ago
Because people at the top are losing money so they need the perception of risk to go away.
rriepe 7y ago
On their front page right now: Matches for "Trump": 19 Matches for "coronavirus": 31 CNN: 13 for Trump, 14 for coronavirus MSNBC: 34 for Trump, 42 for coronavirus
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hugh4life 7y ago
Coronavirus is all over Fox News webpage. It's one of the "hot topics" at the top. There are a lot of mentions of it.
nik_0_0 7y ago
Just because the headline article changed? 1 hour after this is posted, the word coronavirus still appears 31 times, 8 times above the fold, and once as the hot topic "coronavirus spreads"... let's cool it.
knzhou 7y ago
This article is fake news. Let's not make a bad situation worse through disinformation.
badrabbit 7y ago
A screenshot of their home page is hardly proof(is it buried under a different page?). This could just be editorial discretion at hand. Not much happened after the death of one american was covered on the 29th. My guess is that their viewers don't care one bit about what happens outside of the US and the topic does not engage enough viewers/visitors. If it was partisan I would expect the usual truth-twisting from them. I think it is best to look at their coverage for a few days before coming to any conclusion.
- DarmokJalad1701 7y ago
  Wasn't a second death reported today?
  - nik_0_0 7y ago
    Yes. You can currently find that on the Fox News front page with the headline "Coronavirus kills 2nd man in Washington state, officials say". Edit: Which, FWIW, is next to the article "Virus cases in this country jump by 50 percent in 1 day amid new US warnings"
clumsysmurf 7y ago
Rush Limbaugh claimed it was the common cold, and that Dr. Nancy Messonnier was part of the deep state to undermine the president. Laura Ingraham accused the Democrate of weaponizing fear over the issue. https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-media-spreads-conspiracy-and-deny-risk-of-coronavirus-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-media-spreads-con...
whatanattitude 7y ago
This is false. And anyone posting partisan nonsense go look at foxnews. It’s loaded with corona news.
_bxg1 7y ago
I'm no Fox News apologist, but this appears to be blatantly false/conspiracy-mongering. Should aussie.ai be banned from HN?
- dvasdekis 7y ago
  What is the blatantly false proposition? There is a screenshot, and then another screenshot later. This parent comment appears to be blatantly false. Should brundolf be banned from HN?
  - _bxg1 7y ago
    The headline in the OP is "Fox News has stopped reporting on Coronavirus" and then goes on to extrapolate that to a far-fetched conspiracy theory. Several people have chimed in saying that the virus is all over FN's front page, it's just no longer the very most prominent headline. So even the base fact is verifiably false. That's the definition of fake news. And this site goes beyond that and tries to incite conspiracy-thinking based on this false fact.
    - dvasdekis 7y ago
      I actually agree. We should hold HN posts to a standard of truthfulness, and perhaps this submission's headline does not meet that standard (irrespective of the contents of the screenshots). But in supporting this argument, my question is then: What standards apply to whom? Are all opinion and thought pieces, given that they are not verifiable, and they are inherently trying to change the opinion of the reader, therefore conspiracy thinking? If not, what is the definition? If conspiracy-thinking is the view that organisations are not operating in the best interests of the individual, one person's conspiracy-thinking is therefore another person's whistleblowing. Thoughts?
      - _bxg1 7y ago
        I would define "conspiracy-thinking" as belief-forming that's driven by fear, even if its proposition can't be totally disproved (truthfully, nothing can). Or, if you like, belief-forming that neglects to apply Occam's Razor. But that's an inherently subjective thing. So the only thing that's important in this case is the intentional propagation of false information.
pensatoio 7y ago
This is fake news and is demonstrably false.
templain 7y ago
Wow dude get a social life
anonsivalley652 7y ago
Clickbait, misrepresenting or exaggerated headlines and weak, stretching statements anger / disappoint me because they demonstrate a lack of integrity. Also, free speech has absolutely nothing to do with what content a company chooses to display. Wouldn't a more factual headline, as mentioned on John Oliver a few hours prior to this writing, be "Fox News downplayed, misinformed viewers and trivialized COVID-19"? FN may not have yet started practicing journalistic integrity, but that's beside the point.

17 points by dvasdekis 7y ago

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Makes just as much sense to me that being concerned about corona virus is something they've identified as being associated with the blue tribe, and have decided to cut it out all on their own.

_bxg1 7y ago
Getting infected to own the libs
- whatanattitude 7y ago
  Go look at foxnews clown. There’s plenty of corona articles.

29athrowaway 7y ago

Because people at the top are losing money so they need the perception of risk to go away.

rriepe 7y ago

On their front page right now: Matches for "Trump": 19 Matches for "coronavirus": 31 CNN: 13 for Trump, 14 for coronavirus MSNBC: 34 for Trump, 42 for coronavirus

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hugh4life 7y ago

Coronavirus is all over Fox News webpage. It's one of the "hot topics" at the top. There are a lot of mentions of it.

nik_0_0 7y ago

Just because the headline article changed? 1 hour after this is posted, the word coronavirus still appears 31 times, 8 times above the fold, and once as the hot topic "coronavirus spreads"... let's cool it.

knzhou 7y ago

This article is fake news. Let's not make a bad situation worse through disinformation.

badrabbit 7y ago

A screenshot of their home page is hardly proof(is it buried under a different page?). This could just be editorial discretion at hand. Not much happened after the death of one american was covered on the 29th. My guess is that their viewers don't care one bit about what happens outside of the US and the topic does not engage enough viewers/visitors. If it was partisan I would expect the usual truth-twisting from them. I think it is best to look at their coverage for a few days before coming to any conclusion.

DarmokJalad1701 7y ago
Wasn't a second death reported today?
- nik_0_0 7y ago
  Yes. You can currently find that on the Fox News front page with the headline "Coronavirus kills 2nd man in Washington state, officials say". Edit: Which, FWIW, is next to the article "Virus cases in this country jump by 50 percent in 1 day amid new US warnings"

clumsysmurf 7y ago

Rush Limbaugh claimed it was the common cold, and that Dr. Nancy Messonnier was part of the deep state to undermine the president. Laura Ingraham accused the Democrate of weaponizing fear over the issue. https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-media-spreads-conspiracy-and-deny-risk-of-coronavirus-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-media-spreads-con...

whatanattitude 7y ago

This is false. And anyone posting partisan nonsense go look at foxnews. It’s loaded with corona news.

_bxg1 7y ago

I'm no Fox News apologist, but this appears to be blatantly false/conspiracy-mongering. Should aussie.ai be banned from HN?

dvasdekis 7y ago
What is the blatantly false proposition? There is a screenshot, and then another screenshot later. This parent comment appears to be blatantly false. Should brundolf be banned from HN?
- _bxg1 7y ago
  The headline in the OP is "Fox News has stopped reporting on Coronavirus" and then goes on to extrapolate that to a far-fetched conspiracy theory. Several people have chimed in saying that the virus is all over FN's front page, it's just no longer the very most prominent headline. So even the base fact is verifiably false. That's the definition of fake news. And this site goes beyond that and tries to incite conspiracy-thinking based on this false fact.
  - dvasdekis 7y ago
    I actually agree. We should hold HN posts to a standard of truthfulness, and perhaps this submission's headline does not meet that standard (irrespective of the contents of the screenshots). But in supporting this argument, my question is then: What standards apply to whom? Are all opinion and thought pieces, given that they are not verifiable, and they are inherently trying to change the opinion of the reader, therefore conspiracy thinking? If not, what is the definition? If conspiracy-thinking is the view that organisations are not operating in the best interests of the individual, one person's conspiracy-thinking is therefore another person's whistleblowing. Thoughts?
    - _bxg1 7y ago
      I would define "conspiracy-thinking" as belief-forming that's driven by fear, even if its proposition can't be totally disproved (truthfully, nothing can). Or, if you like, belief-forming that neglects to apply Occam's Razor. But that's an inherently subjective thing. So the only thing that's important in this case is the intentional propagation of false information.

pensatoio 7y ago

This is fake news and is demonstrably false.

templain 7y ago

Wow dude get a social life

anonsivalley652 7y ago

Clickbait, misrepresenting or exaggerated headlines and weak, stretching statements anger / disappoint me because they demonstrate a lack of integrity. Also, free speech has absolutely nothing to do with what content a company chooses to display. Wouldn't a more factual headline, as mentioned on John Oliver a few hours prior to this writing, be "Fox News downplayed, misinformed viewers and trivialized COVID-19"? FN may not have yet started practicing journalistic integrity, but that's beside the point.