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If you have a family member that watches Fox News and then check some of their primetime programming out, you'll see both the fear and where that fear comes fro

If you have a family member that watches Fox News and then check some of their primetime programming out, you'll see both the fear and where that fear comes from.

jaywalk 6y ago
And you could do the same with CNN and MSNBC. Don't single out one source, they're all peddling fear just in different ways.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
  Whenever news org echo dire Gov warnings [1] without vetting the evidence (or highlighting the lack thereof) & [2] without the context of how often these turn out to be true/false they're part of the FUD Generation Machine
- mattacular 6y ago
  I don't really disagree but I will single out Fox News because it's completely valid to do so. They are a much more blatant offender than any other outlet and essentially wrote the playbook on fear-mongering for political gain in this country. It's silly to deny the extent of their influence on the media landscape in your desire to seem equitable.
  - AndrewUnmuted 6y ago
    Fox News did indeed set us on that path initially, but it's also silly to deny the extent of the rest of the networks' buy-in into this playbook. Fox News' use of the "FOX NEWS ALERT" interruptions and the fear mongering were quickly replicated by all the other major cable networks in an attempt to compete. All of the networks were complicit in selling us into war with lies, I think it's really more silly and uninformed to single out Fox News, given the current media ecology and political climate. Today's CNN and MSNBC will do things that are simply treacherous, making Fox News look tame by comparison. We're in a new era now.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
  Fear and sensationalism sells news - yes. And Fox, CNN, and MSNBC are guilty of that - yes. But that does not mean they are in any way equivalent or as-bad-as-each-other. They are not. Fox News uses fear - and the degree at which their resident pundits use falsehoods and misrepresent the truth - and use fear as a partisan tool to push one single political party - is far beyond CNN and MSNBC.

If you have a family member that watches Fox News and then check some of their primetime programming out, you'll see both the fear and where that fear comes from.

jaywalk 6y ago

And you could do the same with CNN and MSNBC. Don't single out one source, they're all peddling fear just in different ways.

WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
Whenever news org echo dire Gov warnings [1] without vetting the evidence (or highlighting the lack thereof) & [2] without the context of how often these turn out to be true/false they're part of the FUD Generation Machine
mattacular 6y ago
I don't really disagree but I will single out Fox News because it's completely valid to do so. They are a much more blatant offender than any other outlet and essentially wrote the playbook on fear-mongering for political gain in this country. It's silly to deny the extent of their influence on the media landscape in your desire to seem equitable.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y ago
  Fox News did indeed set us on that path initially, but it's also silly to deny the extent of the rest of the networks' buy-in into this playbook. Fox News' use of the "FOX NEWS ALERT" interruptions and the fear mongering were quickly replicated by all the other major cable networks in an attempt to compete. All of the networks were complicit in selling us into war with lies, I think it's really more silly and uninformed to single out Fox News, given the current media ecology and political climate. Today's CNN and MSNBC will do things that are simply treacherous, making Fox News look tame by comparison. We're in a new era now.
DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
Fear and sensationalism sells news - yes. And Fox, CNN, and MSNBC are guilty of that - yes. But that does not mean they are in any way equivalent or as-bad-as-each-other. They are not. Fox News uses fear - and the degree at which their resident pundits use falsehoods and misrepresent the truth - and use fear as a partisan tool to push one single political party - is far beyond CNN and MSNBC.