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That seems to be a really common thing! It's incredibly frustrating when reading some articles about someone being cancelled or the like.
by syspec 5y ago
That seems to be a really common thing! It's incredibly frustrating when reading some articles about someone being cancelled or the like.
- kadoban 5y agoIt's a speciality of Fox News. It promotes the outrage well when you leave out the actually objectionable part. Others do it as well of course.
- ipaddr 5y agoLike news shows local or national. Dislike the dropping of race when describing suspects at large but identifying gender.
- Quekid5 5y agoLocal news in the US is largely owned by Sinclair and/or ClearChannel. (Maybe the latter is only billboards and such. It's hard to keep up with the obfuscation.)
- bashonly 5y agoClearChannel got out of the television game years ago (and has since changed its name to the even-more-awful IHeartCommunications). And Sinclair really doesn't hold a candle to Nexstar and Gray Television, who have managed to buy up the vast majority of local affiliates over the past several years.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe dropping of race of suspects has been going on in the news since the 1970s.
- loonster 5y agoIn this instance, showing the lyrics that were censored would have increased the outrage.
- Fellshard 5y agoThis is not isolated to Fox News, whatever other problems it certainly has.
- JPKab 5y agoFox News was a pioneer in this technique and unfortunately CNN and MSNBC have followed suit. In the early 2000s I was always astonished by how utterly misinformed Fox News viewers were. In 2021 I am always astonished by how utterly misinformed MSNBC CNN and Fox News viewers are. On certain subjects like the statistical risk of a 35-year-old healthy person getting hospitalized for covid, Fox News viewers are actually the best informed. They still overestimate the risk but not by orders of magnitude that the other two sets of viewers succumb to. My father is a rabid MSNBC and CNN viewer, and like many of your typical resistance boomers is grossly ignorant about most things happening in the world. In December he was ranting to me about how the US could have had zero covid if someone else had been president. While I agreed with him that it had been mishandled I tried to explain to him that there wasn't any countries able to keep it out except for very isolated island nations. He was completely ignorant of this. He also freaked out when I contracted covid in February before I could give vaxxed. I was trying to explain to him that I'm very fit and healthy and relatively young but he really thought I was going to have to get hospitalized. This is when I started learning about the statistics on actual hospitalizations versus what the public thought. One difference between these groups of people who watch these utterly stupid channels is that Fox News viewers are pretty aware that they watch biased news. They weren't in the early 2000s though. MSNBC and CNN viewers think they're witnessing objective reporting in general. My father is always quick to say that he reads articles from the AP as if they are objective. They are absolutely not objective anymore. Ideological capture is a thing. And it was purely ideological when the AP told their reporters to call what was obviously rioting "mostly peaceful protests". The aftermath of that absurd line of thinking was me witnessing many family members who were right of center to completely lose any and all faith in journalistic institutions. It was a watershed moment in media becoming untrusted by most of the working class.
- TechBro8615 5y agoLess than 0.3% of the population watches prime time TV shows on any of the networks in your comment. Unfortunately despite a small initial audience they do have wide reach in terms of distributing short clips to various factions of the Twitter mob (which also happens to be comprised of an insignificant percentage of citizens). In some populations, a person has a better chance of catching covid and dying than they do of saying they watched Chris Cuomo last night.