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That's a Fox Affiliate (a broadcast station in the Fox broadcast network) local news source. The much denigrated Fox News is a cable TV station rated for only f

That's a Fox Affiliate (a broadcast station in the Fox broadcast network) local news source. The much denigrated Fox News is a cable TV station rated for only for Entertainment that purports to be for News and has done much to confuse the boundaries between the two in the US skirting truth-in-advertising and truth-in-news laws/regulations/common decency for the seeming sake of far right propaganda. (I believe the British equivalent is The Sun if it was allowed its own 24 hour TV channel because despite showing "news-like things" "everyone" knows it is only for Entertainment purposes only, why else would they include celebrity gossip.) Many of the Fox Affiliates are still best-in-class local news. (Though it varies from city to city.) The Fox News cable channel lowered the bar on what Americans think news is supposed to be to historic low levels.

JdeBP 1y ago
The U.K. equivalent is GB News. Its reality is worse than your hypothetical. (-: But the level of Foxness that I was alluding to was not that of GB News, but rather more that of Reach PLC; which isn't Murdoch-owned, but which runs a whole network of purportedly regional news outlets which turn out to be just localized skins applied to a big syndicated empire, and which BBC News often does better than locally.
- WorldMaker 1y ago
  Yeah in the US system thanks to some old competition requirements the Affiliate Network gets most of the name recognition and provides most of the prime time entertainment content (a few other content blocks), but the stations under that network have their own owners that can be more or less damaging, especially in news content, and more or less "invisible" in that maybe you only see their name in the fine print at the end of credits or copyright statements. One other notorious example is Sinclair Broadcasting [1]. Sinclair-owned stations include all of the major Affiliate Networks in the US and some of the minor ones, but are known for how much they farm politically-biased news content across their platforms, including trying to pass off editorial content as news content. (ETA: Which is to say that yeah a FOX affiliate gets entertainment programming from what is left of Rupert Murdoch's empire, but could be getting news content from all sorts of places from home-grown proper local journalism to content farms from their real owners.) [1] A humorous rant on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc

JdeBP 1y ago

The U.K. equivalent is GB News. Its reality is worse than your hypothetical. (-: But the level of Foxness that I was alluding to was not that of GB News, but rather more that of Reach PLC; which isn't Murdoch-owned, but which runs a whole network of purportedly regional news outlets which turn out to be just localized skins applied to a big syndicated empire, and which BBC News often does better than locally.

WorldMaker 1y ago
Yeah in the US system thanks to some old competition requirements the Affiliate Network gets most of the name recognition and provides most of the prime time entertainment content (a few other content blocks), but the stations under that network have their own owners that can be more or less damaging, especially in news content, and more or less "invisible" in that maybe you only see their name in the fine print at the end of credits or copyright statements. One other notorious example is Sinclair Broadcasting [1]. Sinclair-owned stations include all of the major Affiliate Networks in the US and some of the minor ones, but are known for how much they farm politically-biased news content across their platforms, including trying to pass off editorial content as news content. (ETA: Which is to say that yeah a FOX affiliate gets entertainment programming from what is left of Rupert Murdoch's empire, but could be getting news content from all sorts of places from home-grown proper local journalism to content farms from their real owners.) [1] A humorous rant on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc