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Fox News Is Down

6 points by l2silver 5y ago

slater 5y ago
[and-nothing-of-value-was-lost.gif] /scnr
- Bostonian 5y ago
  Fox News is popular because its viewers believe that many other outlooks look down on them.
  - krapp 5y ago
    >Fox News is popular because it panders to its viewers' persecution complex and gaslights them like an abusive spouse. FTFY.
  - tailius 5y ago
    Roger Ailes created FN specifically to extend and expand the ideological perspectives of the Nixon Republican faction using tilted mass media. It worked because there was demand for existing believers and also a malleable, susceptible audience.
rvz 5y ago
Can't we have hugops for Fox News? I mean a day ago, something else went down didn't it? [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159078
cf100clunk 5y ago
No way do I bookmark Fox News or watch it on TV, so out of curiosity does this alert apply to one or both? This says the foxnews.com site is up: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/fox-news https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/fox-news
SeniorSenior 5y ago
The the thing that makes us greater than the sum of our parts is our ability to communicate; We feel pain when we read about the earthquake in Haiti because of how words communicate to us the horror felt by others. The words change us, spur is to take action. Anything that undermines language's ability to unit humanity is to be frowned upon. Yes, language changes. In the Koreas, the word for "wife" in one country is the word for "slave" in the other country. And that is why the two Koreas will never be one. They are truly divided by a common language. Both countries encourage "proper" word use. One is less successful than the other. The country whose people are not starving is the one with more words. The one with more communicable concepts. The one that is less successful at censorship. Fox "News" is dividing the US. They don't add new concepts, they undermine the old. They make us wonder if what we heard is what was meant. They leave us with fewer useful words. (Starting with the word "news.") "Hugops" ...I had to Google it. But that was because it is an example of a new word, new concept, a "jargon" coming onto radar. It undermines nothing. (Good show, that man. #hugops) No hugs for Fox "News".

Fox News Is Down

6 points by l2silver 5y ago

slater 5y ago

[and-nothing-of-value-was-lost.gif] /scnr

Bostonian 5y ago
Fox News is popular because its viewers believe that many other outlooks look down on them.
- krapp 5y ago
  >Fox News is popular because it panders to its viewers' persecution complex and gaslights them like an abusive spouse. FTFY.
- tailius 5y ago
  Roger Ailes created FN specifically to extend and expand the ideological perspectives of the Nixon Republican faction using tilted mass media. It worked because there was demand for existing believers and also a malleable, susceptible audience.

rvz 5y ago

Can't we have hugops for Fox News? I mean a day ago, something else went down didn't it? [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159078

cf100clunk 5y ago

No way do I bookmark Fox News or watch it on TV, so out of curiosity does this alert apply to one or both? This says the foxnews.com site is up: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/fox-news https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/fox-news

SeniorSenior 5y ago

The the thing that makes us greater than the sum of our parts is our ability to communicate; We feel pain when we read about the earthquake in Haiti because of how words communicate to us the horror felt by others. The words change us, spur is to take action. Anything that undermines language's ability to unit humanity is to be frowned upon. Yes, language changes. In the Koreas, the word for "wife" in one country is the word for "slave" in the other country. And that is why the two Koreas will never be one. They are truly divided by a common language. Both countries encourage "proper" word use. One is less successful than the other. The country whose people are not starving is the one with more words. The one with more communicable concepts. The one that is less successful at censorship. Fox "News" is dividing the US. They don't add new concepts, they undermine the old. They make us wonder if what we heard is what was meant. They leave us with fewer useful words. (Starting with the word "news.") "Hugops" ...I had to Google it. But that was because it is an example of a new word, new concept, a "jargon" coming onto radar. It undermines nothing. (Good show, that man. #hugops) No hugs for Fox "News".