As far as I am concerned Fox News is a foreign agent. Republicans.
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May have been started by an Aussie but Fox News is as American as any cliche you can think of.
Personally, I cannot even watch five minutes of any FOX broadcast. It’s so absurd and over-the-top that it looks like a parody. I literally can’t believe it’s watched religiously by millions of people.
I stayed over a weekend as a guest at a woman’s home and she and her husband have FOX news on constantly. The overall tone is hyper, fear-inducing, incredible exaggeration. And the couple nodded in agreement with the hateful crap being spewed.
I don’t know how you fight it. It’s legal and it’s paid for. Trump uses this crap as his feedback and advice. But it sounds like the propaganda from World War II and it scares me to death. They ARE foreign agents, destroying the country from within.
Reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine? Though I can’t imagine there’s any chance of that. If I remember correctly, Obama opposed it pretty strongly.
The fairness doctrine was for over-the-air broadcasting, the basis was the bandwidth belongs to the public so the government could control it.
Pointless to bring it back just for major network stations when the problem is a cable (or satellite) network.
Though, I suppose, you could bring it back for hate radio.
FOX is an over the air channel and thus required to be carried by cable. It’s not a cable channel like A&R, AMC, and the like. If the fairness doctrine were revived, they could split into two channels, However, that would increase production costs and reduce advertising revenue. Cord cutting is rampant in any case.
Are you living under a rock? On Mars?
Where I live, FOX is Channel 10 and carries football games.
Fox News Channel is Channel 205 and carries Sean Hannity and Fox and Friends.
They are separate, and Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel etc. are not over-the -air available.
Chicago. FOX is channel 32-1 and carries sports, some entertainment and news. The political news is slanted but the local news is very good. At least they carry more local stories than others. When I had cable there was only one Fox, not three. Are the other two premium channels? Do people pay to have their brains washed? Hannity used to be on over the air and I vaguely recall Fox and Friends. The plant cafeteria TV used to be on 32 most of the time. Since retiring, I’ve been spared that.
There are various packages with various mixes of channels. FNC is about as available as CNN,AMC,TNT etc. I get a very comprehensive package with lots of channels.
FOX (10) Local news, network news, sitcoms, dramas etc.
FNC(205) Propaganda Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham are the evening anchors.
FBC (206) Business + propaganda with Lou Dobbs etc.
FX (136) Variety and drama series like Fargo, The Americans, American Horror Story etc.
FXM (384) Old movies.
FXX (125) Comedies and a lot of reruns like The Simpsons.
I get Fox, Fox News, Fox Business, FX, FXM, and FXX.
That’s six channels by my count, only the first listed is over-the-air.
FX is Fox? I never saw anything political on it. Mostly action movies.
I think I have Fox Business on XM radio. I never listen to it. I do listen to Bloomberg on the radio. I beleive they have a channel on SlingTV. When I dropped cable, i picked up Sling because they have Hallmark Movies&Mysteries that my wife likes and also A&E and AMC that I sometimes watch along with USA and TNT. Mostly I watch over the air. I prefer to get my politics on the internet and in print rather than talk.
The Times reported that their sources told them the donald said he wanted to fire Mueller. Wolf said the same thing in his book. But Fox, they are saying the donald had conversations about firing Mueller. Well, who is the source for conversations and with who were these conversation held? Has Fox just thrown the WH under the bus?
Did the Times say who their sources were? Not arguing, just wanting clarification on that point.
I don’t recall that they did, nor did the Washington Post when they cited two sources who corroborated the NYT story.
They know their audience and are in alignment with them. It’s a highly effective business model. If you’ve ever been to a gun show and seen the propaganda that’s sold at booths within, then you’d see this is what the viewers were already consuming. Hate radio and cable Fox are just more readily available. These consumers aren’t hearing anything they don’t already believe. All Fox does is keep the endorphins coming by confirming their beliefs all day long. Honestly there isn’t any difference between that and 700 Club or televangelists begging for money. They mainline hate and fear.
The Kremlin could not have done a better job at poisoning the American body politic than Murdoch/Fox.
You aren’t getting your country back any time soon.
If not Fox News Channel/Murdoch, maybe someone else?
The market niche is there regardless of who fills it.
That seems not only alarmist but quitterish also.
If you think that’s alarmist you don’t fully appreciate the position you’re in. I’ve lived in banana republics. I know what they look like.
As far as I am concerned Fox News is a foreign agent.
Does that mean we can confiscate the Murdoch family’s wealth? The Koch brothers? The Walton family’s wealth? They’re all horrible and parasites on this country.