Fox News Viewers Have No Clue: Network Blocks Nearly All Critical Coverage of Donald

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signalmankenneth

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I doubt there is anyone in America who is surprised that Fox News has decided not to carry the January 6th committee hearings. Why would they want to make their audience feel disoriented with a bunch of disturbing information they've heard nothing about despite tuning in regularly to their favorite "news" network? It would be like getting a dispatch from another planet. It's very upsetting, and if there's one thing neither Republicans nor their propaganda channels are willing to do it's make their followers angry.

Recall that Fox News was the first network to call the Arizona election for Joe Biden, which sent the entire right-wing into a frenzy. It resulted in Fox finally giving up any pretense of being a real news network. According to "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" by CNN's Brian Stelter, Trump got the ball rolling by tweeting out his anger and going on "Fox and Friends" to complain, asking: "What's the biggest difference between this and four years ago?

I say Fox. It's much different now." Soon his rabid supporters were gathering outside the Phoenix, Arizona counting center yelling "Fox News Sucks" and Facebook groups were forming telling people to switch to Newsmax and One America News. And for a while, they did just that. In December of 2020, for the first time, Newsmax actually beat Fox News in the ratings. Fox executives greeted this crisis as an existential threat with one producer telling Stelter, "we're bleeding eyeballs, And we're scared." Their ratings were nosediving "20, 25, 30 percent, even though the news cycle was nothing short of epic." Remember, this was the post-election period — it was epic indeed. Stelter wrote:

"Our audience hates this," one executive said to me in a moment of candor. "This" was Biden as president-elect and Kamala Harris as VP-elect. "They're pissed," said a second source. "Seething," said another.

The word apparently came from on high that they'd better figure out a way to get their audience back. So Fox News fired the election team that called the Arizona election results and re-tooled immediately, starting by giving the audience what they were demanding: false hope. They pushed the voter fraud conspiracies to the point that Fox News even became the subject of huge defamation lawsuits by the voting machine companies. And then the network went after anyone who didn't go along with the program.

Rupert Murdoch himself was said to be guiding decisions to remove anyone who wasn't deemed hysterical and shrill enough to entice the disappointed Trumpers back into the fold, marginalizing the few more or less straight news people and giving carte blanche to their "opinion" personalities to follow their bliss into the right-wing fever swamps. The result is Tucker Carlson and his Great Replacement Hour.

Media Matters did a deep dive a while back into how Fox News ended up covering the post-election period:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread...-nearly-all-critical-coverage-of-donald-trump


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funny.

millions of young voters had no idea Biden lied about being a good student, or would steal speeches and call them his own - because they blocked all negative coverage about this imbecile
 
zymurgy said:
funny.

millions of young voters had no idea Biden lied about being a good student, or would steal speeches and call them his own - because they blocked all negative coverage about this imbecile
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Major networks often serve as the propaganda wing of the DNC, they have all my life, however never so openly as today.
 
Damocles said:
Major networks often serve as the propaganda wing of the DNC, they have all my life, however never so openly as today.
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yep. the biggest lie is the media was actually interested in fair and honest elections.

I still believe they gave Trump the softball treatment in his primary run as he was the easy victory for Hillary
 
Damocles said:
Major networks often serve as the propaganda wing of the DNC, they have all my life, however never so openly as today.
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Not true, what they do is report the actual news, which apparently is news you haven't wanted to hear your entire life
 
Lionfish said:
Note to Kenny, don't turn on FOX tonight.
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Doubt he would, everyone already knows what will be shown

"In the 8 p.m. ET slot, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” will feature the following: “Jan. 6 didn’t happen, and if it did, it would’ve been Hunter Biden’s fault”; and “Was critical race theory responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that didn’t happen? (Hint: Yes, absolutely.)”

“At 9 p.m. ET, Sean Hannity will give viewers an exclusive interview with former President Donald Trump in which Trump explains why he had nothing to do with the “fake” Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and*how, if there had been one and he knew,*it would have been “THE BEST Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol anyone has ever seen.”

“That interview will be followed by a special “Hannity” report titled: “Is the Jan. 6 committee just a smokescreen to draw attention away from Hillary Clinton’s secret plot to turn American children woke by exposing them to Disney movies that promote ‘inclusion’?”

“At 10 p.m. ET, Laura Ingraham will be back from her bridge-guarding duties to host “The Ingraham Angle,” which will feature a full hour of interviews with people who aren’t doctors speculating that President Joe Biden has “super-turbo-mega-dementia” and should be impeached and incarcerated.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...e/10005276002/
 
PostmodernProphet said:
to be fair, they require what they cover to actually be true.......
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Like Sadam did 911


And the economy is fine and there will be no crash


And Robmoney will win by five


And covid isn’t real so no one will die



They were sued for trying to force News people to lie asshole


They are being sued for lying about Dominion and others
 
archives said:
Doubt he would, everyone already knows what will be shown

"In the 8 p.m. ET slot, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” will feature the following: “Jan. 6 didn’t happen, and if it did, it would’ve been Hunter Biden’s fault”; and “Was critical race theory responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that didn’t happen? (Hint: Yes, absolutely.)”

“At 9 p.m. ET, Sean Hannity will give viewers an exclusive interview with former President Donald Trump in which Trump explains why he had nothing to do with the “fake” Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and*how, if there had been one and he knew,*it would have been “THE BEST Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol anyone has ever seen.”

“That interview will be followed by a special “Hannity” report titled: “Is the Jan. 6 committee just a smokescreen to draw attention away from Hillary Clinton’s secret plot to turn American children woke by exposing them to Disney movies that promote ‘inclusion’?”

“At 10 p.m. ET, Laura Ingraham will be back from her bridge-guarding duties to host “The Ingraham Angle,” which will feature a full hour of interviews with people who aren’t doctors speculating that President Joe Biden has “super-turbo-mega-dementia” and should be impeached and incarcerated.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...e/10005276002/
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Note to achovies, join kenny.
 
Hilarious OP from a dork who gobbled up every lie it has been spoonfed by the lyingass fake news; YEARS of "Russian Collusion" lies; lies about Nick Sandman, lies about Kyle Rittenhouse, lies about Hunter Biden's damning laptop being "Russian disinformation"...
 
signalmankenneth said:
I doubt there is anyone in America who is surprised that Fox News has decided not to carry the January 6th committee hearings. Why would they want to make their audience feel disoriented with a bunch of disturbing information they've heard nothing about despite tuning in regularly to their favorite "news" network? It would be like getting a dispatch from another planet. It's very upsetting, and if there's one thing neither Republicans nor their propaganda channels are willing to do it's make their followers angry.

Recall that Fox News was the first network to call the Arizona election for Joe Biden, which sent the entire right-wing into a frenzy. It resulted in Fox finally giving up any pretense of being a real news network. According to "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" by CNN's Brian Stelter, Trump got the ball rolling by tweeting out his anger and going on "Fox and Friends" to complain, asking: "What's the biggest difference between this and four years ago?

I say Fox. It's much different now." Soon his rabid supporters were gathering outside the Phoenix, Arizona counting center yelling "Fox News Sucks" and Facebook groups were forming telling people to switch to Newsmax and One America News. And for a while, they did just that. In December of 2020, for the first time, Newsmax actually beat Fox News in the ratings. Fox executives greeted this crisis as an existential threat with one producer telling Stelter, "we're bleeding eyeballs, And we're scared." Their ratings were nosediving "20, 25, 30 percent, even though the news cycle was nothing short of epic." Remember, this was the post-election period — it was epic indeed. Stelter wrote:

"Our audience hates this," one executive said to me in a moment of candor. "This" was Biden as president-elect and Kamala Harris as VP-elect. "They're pissed," said a second source. "Seething," said another.

The word apparently came from on high that they'd better figure out a way to get their audience back. So Fox News fired the election team that called the Arizona election results and re-tooled immediately, starting by giving the audience what they were demanding: false hope. They pushed the voter fraud conspiracies to the point that Fox News even became the subject of huge defamation lawsuits by the voting machine companies. And then the network went after anyone who didn't go along with the program.

Rupert Murdoch himself was said to be guiding decisions to remove anyone who wasn't deemed hysterical and shrill enough to entice the disappointed Trumpers back into the fold, marginalizing the few more or less straight news people and giving carte blanche to their "opinion" personalities to follow their bliss into the right-wing fever swamps. The result is Tucker Carlson and his Great Replacement Hour.

Media Matters did a deep dive a while back into how Fox News ended up covering the post-election period:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread...-nearly-all-critical-coverage-of-donald-trump


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the hearings are fake news.

hearings are bullshit.

just theatrical opportunities for politicians.

politics is show business for ugly people. ask barney frank.
 
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