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Fox News is by far the most watched TV news channel in the US. I think it is clear that they are not out there to inform the citizenry in any meaningful capaci
by christina97 2y ago
Fox News is by far the most watched TV news channel in the US.
I think it is clear that they are not out there to inform the citizenry in any meaningful capacity. (Side note: I suggest watching the channel every now and then just to get an idea of what the largest “news” channel is feeding Americans.)
- lazyeye 2y agoObviously fox news is politically biased in its coverage. I just dont understand how any objective observer could perceive the others (cnn, msnbc etc) as any different?
- thrance 2y agoLiterally all that's on Fox News is lies upon lies in service of the GOP. I do not hold the other channels in my heart, but there are degrees of misleadingness and partisanship.
- etchalon 2y agoThe difference is what the bias tends towards. Jon Stewart made this point a decade ago, and I don't think anything has changed. Fox New is biased in partisan way – specifically protecting and advocating towards the goals of a political party. NYT, CNN, etc are biased towards other things first (conflict, spectacle, consensus) and while the majority of their staff likely have a liberal bias, they are not actively partisan. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbtUztVctI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbtUztVctI
- lazyeye 2y ago"they are not actively partisan"....again, no objective observer believes this. And quoting Jon Stewart would be like me quoting Tucker Carlson.
- lovich 2y agoOh? I hadn’t heard that Stewart got his company a 780+ million dollar settlement in large part because he had texts stating he knew he was lying to the public. Someone should do something about that Stewart fellow if he keeps getting away with the stuff
- nielsbot 2y agoI can find this (easily). Link?
- lovich 2y agoI was being sarcastic. Tucker is a proven in court liar and propagandist and the person I was replying to was stating that John Stewart’s biases are equivalent in magnitude
- lazyeye 2y agoStewart is obviously a died-in-the-wool leftist and if you can't see that then you lack basic comprehension skills.
- etchalon 2y agoYou seem to enjoy stating subjective, debatable opinions as objective fact without any evidence while pairing them with juvenile insults. It's very effective.
- lazyeye 2y agoThe facts exist independent of your empty words.
- lovich 2y agoI never argued otherwise. But implying that just being biased towards one side is equivalent to Tucker Carlsons level of dedication to the cause in spite of the truth is where you are wrong. Eh, wrong is too weak. I think you fully understand the false comparison you are making and how it influences public discourse
- hkpack 2y agoThe problem is not political bias, but disinformation. Clumping everyone in one group is actually one of the goals of this: to get people tired of trying to figure out reality and to give up. As obvious as it is - when you think everyone lies, liars will be the only ones who win. When you think that everyone is the same - the worst ones will win every time.
- lazyeye 2y agoI'm not completely sure what point you are trying to make but I can assure you we get all kinds of distortions, half-truths, lies and cherry-picked narratives from channels other than Fox news too.
- plusmax1 2y agoFox News is less a news outlet and more a performance art piece in which actors, costumed as journalists, deliver carefully scripted outrage to an audience so thoroughly conditioned they believe they're watching journalism—when in reality, it’s more akin to a soap opera written by a political strategist and directed by the ghost of Joseph McCarthy.
- dralley 2y agoIt's awfully hard to find any content on CNN or MSNBC that approaches the total shamelessness which Fox displays on a regular basis. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1895597181945725304 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1895597181945725304 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1905778768511406175 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1905778768511406175 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909744238621020262 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909744238621020262 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909717088241172661 https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909717088241172661
- lazyeye 2y agoThey are all opinion shows but Im sure its not that hard to find examples in the opposite vein on other channels where America is described as racist, white supremacist etc (all the left-wing tropes).
- inahga 2y agoSomething about first two links gives me Breencast vibes. e.g. https://youtu.be/1gKcGrxZbFA https://youtu.be/1gKcGrxZbFA https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Breencast https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Breencast
- Braxton1980 2y agoBecause it's not boolean
- yusina 2y agoBinary is the word you are looking for. 2 alternatives. Binary. Boolean is a more general concept in algebra, tracing back to George Bool. That many programming languages call the 2-valued data type that expresses truth values as some variant of "boolean" is unfortunate.
- Braxton1980 2y agoSorry. I knew that but wasn't paying enough attention writing the comment
- mmooss 2y agoEverything and everybody is politically biased. It means nothing to say that. Everyone is a liar, but it means nothing about honesty to point that out. What is meaningful is the degree to which they are, and what else they are. I don't think we need a pedantic debate about Fox News.
- tartoran 2y agoFox News is entertainment masquerading as news.
- intrasight 2y agoNot even masquerading. They came out and stated publicly that they're an entertainment company.
- nielsbot 2y agoTo avoid having to be truthful
- thoughtpalette 2y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted. It was stated in a court case from them that they're entertainment.
- neogodless 2y agoBrain washing masquerading as entertainment masquerading as news.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoIf you think about it, television has never been designed to inform or edify anyone. Television is meant to sell ads and blanket the nations with a haze of opiates in order to keep us pacified and distracted and far too stupid to make waves. And people blame religion for this stuff ...
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