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It's very fair. Fox - and its equivalents - are run in a knowing and cynical way. "No reasonable viewer would think Tucker Carlson is news." The media barons b

It's very fair. Fox - and its equivalents - are run in a knowing and cynical way. "No reasonable viewer would think Tucker Carlson is news." The media barons believe their consumers are idiots, and treat them accordingly. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/fox-news-lawyer-suggests-no-reasonable-viewer-would-think-tucker-carlson-is-news/ https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/fox-news-lawyer-suggest... You're going to have a hard time finding an equivalent statement from the progressive media. This is about clash of fundamentally incompatible moral systems - one in which one group would like to operate entirely above the law on the superficial basis of skin colour and inherited wealth by appealing to lies and fantasy and the basest and most distorted human instincts, and another which wants humans, politics, society, business, science, and art to be better than that.

matthewrobertso 6y ago
Rachel Maddow is a direct equivalent. https://deadline.com/2020/05/rachel-maddow-one-america-news-network-defamation-1202942022/ https://deadline.com/2020/05/rachel-maddow-one-america-news-...
- nojito 6y ago
  MSNBC doesn't promote their opinion block as News. How many people know that Fox News's news division only has 2 hours of programming a day?
  - matthewrobertso 6y ago
    I don't watch Maddow regularly nor do I see MSNBC's promotion of her show. The only episode I've watched in the past few years was the one where she claimed she had Trump's tax returns and would be showing them on the show. To me, this seemed like opinion media masquerading as news media.
throwmehaweh 6y ago
CNN is so far away from actual journalism the past four years that I'm not sure it could be considered anything other than partisan theater, and it is the flagship progressive media.
sadgrip 6y ago
I believe the response from a Fox news viewer would be "It's not news." It's an opinion segment and all major media networks have them as far as I'm aware.
lawnchair_larry 6y ago
I remember when I used to think like that. Man was I ever wrong. Now I wonder how it wasn’t obvious sooner.
tanseydavid 6y ago
This sort of hyperbole is central to the problem we face: "..about clash of fundamentally incompatible moral systems - one in which one group would like to operate entirely above the law on the superficial basis of skin colour and inherited wealth by appealing to lies and fantasy and the basest and most distorted human instincts, and another which wants humans, politics, society, business, science, and art to be better than that."

matthewrobertso 6y ago

Rachel Maddow is a direct equivalent. https://deadline.com/2020/05/rachel-maddow-one-america-news-network-defamation-1202942022/ https://deadline.com/2020/05/rachel-maddow-one-america-news-...

nojito 6y ago
MSNBC doesn't promote their opinion block as News. How many people know that Fox News's news division only has 2 hours of programming a day?
- matthewrobertso 6y ago
  I don't watch Maddow regularly nor do I see MSNBC's promotion of her show. The only episode I've watched in the past few years was the one where she claimed she had Trump's tax returns and would be showing them on the show. To me, this seemed like opinion media masquerading as news media.

throwmehaweh 6y ago

CNN is so far away from actual journalism the past four years that I'm not sure it could be considered anything other than partisan theater, and it is the flagship progressive media.

sadgrip 6y ago

I believe the response from a Fox news viewer would be "It's not news." It's an opinion segment and all major media networks have them as far as I'm aware.

lawnchair_larry 6y ago

I remember when I used to think like that. Man was I ever wrong. Now I wonder how it wasn’t obvious sooner.

tanseydavid 6y ago

This sort of hyperbole is central to the problem we face: "..about clash of fundamentally incompatible moral systems - one in which one group would like to operate entirely above the law on the superficial basis of skin colour and inherited wealth by appealing to lies and fantasy and the basest and most distorted human instincts, and another which wants humans, politics, society, business, science, and art to be better than that."