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The end of CNN, maybe. Fox News seems to be doing fine. It's wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented, whe

The end of CNN, maybe. Fox News seems to be doing fine. It's wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented, when I give it even a cursory check, but it's doing fine.

tempnow987 4y ago
I was curious about their hunter biden coverage. I don't watch it by heard they did a lot about stuff with China and other countries supposedly in their alternate reality doing deals with him that he may not have reported / paid taxes on etc. I know WaPo called the claims there was a laptop with dirt a russian misinformation campaign. I think facebook downranked stories about stuff with Hunter Biden as misinformation. I think twitter cancelled the NY Post's twitter account because of this. So the misinformation got shot down. My problem was (as a max dem donor) I worry that the claims that anything negative about dems is misinformation or an alternate reality means folks might miss some actual problems. Again, glad to see Hunter was cleared - but eventually someone on the left will do something dicey that will be true, and then you start to lose trust if you call things you don't like misinformation. Fox is doing something right that is getting folks to watch them.
Ourgon 4y ago
You're implying that Fox is special in producing wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented. The reality is that CNN is going down because they have been producing, to use your term, wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented. From Russian Collusion to Hunter Biden's laptop, from uncritically parroting COVID-related panic porn to similarly uncritically parroting race and gender baiting activists and everything in between, CNN is going down because their specific flavour of alternate reality is rapidly going out of vogue. Fox is on the ascendant because they have been railing against whatever CNN (and MSNBC and ABC and CBS and PBS and NPR and the NYT and WaPo and...) pushed forward. If all those latter actors were to disappear Fox would suffer since their brand gains its popularity in part from opposing them.

tempnow987 4y ago

I was curious about their hunter biden coverage. I don't watch it by heard they did a lot about stuff with China and other countries supposedly in their alternate reality doing deals with him that he may not have reported / paid taxes on etc. I know WaPo called the claims there was a laptop with dirt a russian misinformation campaign. I think facebook downranked stories about stuff with Hunter Biden as misinformation. I think twitter cancelled the NY Post's twitter account because of this. So the misinformation got shot down. My problem was (as a max dem donor) I worry that the claims that anything negative about dems is misinformation or an alternate reality means folks might miss some actual problems. Again, glad to see Hunter was cleared - but eventually someone on the left will do something dicey that will be true, and then you start to lose trust if you call things you don't like misinformation. Fox is doing something right that is getting folks to watch them.

Ourgon 4y ago

You're implying that Fox is special in producing wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented. The reality is that CNN is going down because they have been producing, to use your term, wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented. From Russian Collusion to Hunter Biden's laptop, from uncritically parroting COVID-related panic porn to similarly uncritically parroting race and gender baiting activists and everything in between, CNN is going down because their specific flavour of alternate reality is rapidly going out of vogue. Fox is on the ascendant because they have been railing against whatever CNN (and MSNBC and ABC and CBS and PBS and NPR and the NYT and WaPo and...) pushed forward. If all those latter actors were to disappear Fox would suffer since their brand gains its popularity in part from opposing them.