Fox News caves… Will carry 1/6 hearings!
- Thread starter Jarod
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Agreed. They need the money for all those lawsuits they'll be facing.
There might be a self serving angle here. Being the only American media to boycott the hearings just adds fuel to all the lawsuits that are accusing Fox of being an active collaborator in Trump's Kraken lies.
Fox News is ass deep in being a conduit for Trump's lies. They are clearly co-conspirators.
PostmodernProphet
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take notes.....I'll be asking you tonight what evidence was discovered.......
ExpressLane
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Use a tiny Post It
There's six more, dumbass. Why don't you hide under your bed until the end and then I'll be happy to fill you in then. Umkay?
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
And once again MAGA wets panties. BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
I suspect it's not about the short-term profits they were missing by taking the ratings hit. Rather, it's the fear that they're losing the opportunity to craft the narrative. If they act like the biggest political event in the world isn't happening, and a good chunk of their viewers flip to CNN, those people are effectively escaping the hermetically sealed media universe the right-wing depends on. They don't want those viewers getting a view of daylight. Maintaining their alternate reality relies on isolation. They need to convince those people to stay in the echo chamber, so they can be kept befuddled.
PoliTalker
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This supports what I've been saying for a long time.
Trump supporters are not necessarily idiots or people of low intelligence. Sure, there are idiots and mentally unstable people included. But not all who support Trump are the cross-eyed bobble headed rally-going trance-like Trump zombies. There are a lot of very together, reasonably secure and successful people who favor conservative politics and went with Trump for various reasons, one of which being the SCOTUS angle. It was all too easy for them to buy into the hype. They had to justify their choice. In for a dime, in for a dollar, right?
That's the problem with propaganda. It works on intelligent people, too.
Propaganda works in a subtle way. But it can't be too blatant.
They can't just say: "You will believe this because we control you."
When it was obvious they were trying to control what people see, and the people couldn't resist wanting to see it anyway, it was realized Fox had pushed it too far.
They tried to tell everybody it was going to be a nothing burger, but people know red meat when they see it.
The implications are extremely interesting.
Could we be at a turning point?
Trump supporters are not necessarily idiots or people of low intelligence. Sure, there are idiots and mentally unstable people included. But not all who support Trump are the cross-eyed bobble headed rally-going trance-like Trump zombies. There are a lot of very together, reasonably secure and successful people who favor conservative politics and went with Trump for various reasons, one of which being the SCOTUS angle. It was all too easy for them to buy into the hype. They had to justify their choice. In for a dime, in for a dollar, right?
That's the problem with propaganda. It works on intelligent people, too.
Propaganda works in a subtle way. But it can't be too blatant.
They can't just say: "You will believe this because we control you."
When it was obvious they were trying to control what people see, and the people couldn't resist wanting to see it anyway, it was realized Fox had pushed it too far.
They tried to tell everybody it was going to be a nothing burger, but people know red meat when they see it.
The implications are extremely interesting.
Could we be at a turning point?
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
Hello Mina,
But those minds must be -drawn- into the echo chamber, not forced. The Fox ego got too big. They lost respect for their followers, thought they could control them.
But those minds must be -drawn- into the echo chamber, not forced. The Fox ego got too big. They lost respect for their followers, thought they could control them.
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I almost want to turn Fox on to see how they play this. Will it be like a football game, where there's a few minutes of action. Then they pause the show to give the talking heads time to describe what the viewers just saw, and put their own spin on it? Or will they just let it play out w/o commentary until the end? I can't see them doing the latter.
That sounds right… Thank you
Good point… I saw a clip of Tucker saying that they weren’t covering it because it was not news…. What now? It became news?
Damocles said the same thing!
The one that covers your tiny junk? We'd rather you leave that in place and instead, use an iPad.
Sawyerloggingon
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They didn't cover the opening act of the democrats made for tv mini series on FOX news. They never claimed they wouldn't cover the rest of the show when it was relegated to normal business hours. Another failed OP by the desperate left.
Guno צְבִי
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That's my assumption -- that they'll have only as much raw footage as they think they need to maintain an illusion that they're covering the hearings, while in fact they spend most of their time cutting away to spinmeisters focused on telling the dummies how to feel about things.