APP - Are Newsmax, OANN, and Fox Media threats to American Democracy?

Hazmat ought to be in an institution.

I'm fascinated by the fact a lot of people online display traits of mental illness more than IRL. As the links below indicate, increased social media presence by Americans also sees a rise in mental issues. Is TMI the cause? Information overload?

https://etactics.com/blog/social-media-and-mental-health-statistics
Between 2012 and 2015, depression in boys increased by 21% and in girls by 50%.

By 2015, 92% of teens and young adults owned a smartphone. But, as smartphone use increased, so did feelings of depression.

A 2017 study of 8th to 12th graders found that high levels of depressive symptoms increased by 33% between 2010 and 2015. The suicide rate for girls in this age group increased by 65%.

And it’s only gotten worse.

Child suicide rates increased by up to 150%, and self-harm by girls ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled. These patterns point to social media....Between 2012 and 2015, depression in boys increased by 21% and in girls by 50%.

By 2015, 92% of teens and young adults owned a smartphone. But, as smartphone use increased, so did feelings of depression.

A 2017 study of 8th to 12th graders found that high levels of depressive symptoms increased by 33% between 2010 and 2015. The suicide rate for girls in this age group increased by 65%.

And it’s only gotten worse.

Child suicide rates increased by up to 150%, and self-harm by girls ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled. These patterns point to social media.


https://mhanational.org/issues/state-mental-health-america
infographic_page_2021_State_of_MH_in_America_report.jpg
 
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I'm fascinated by the fact a lot of people online display traits of mental illness more than IRL. As the links below indicate, increased social media presence by Americans also sees a rise in mental issues. Is TMI the cause? Information overload?

https://etactics.com/blog/social-media-and-mental-health-statistics
Between 2012 and 2015, depression in boys increased by 21% and in girls by 50%.

By 2015, 92% of teens and young adults owned a smartphone. But, as smartphone use increased, so did feelings of depression.

A 2017 study of 8th to 12th graders found that high levels of depressive symptoms increased by 33% between 2010 and 2015. The suicide rate for girls in this age group increased by 65%.

And it’s only gotten worse.

Child suicide rates increased by up to 150%, and self-harm by girls ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled. These patterns point to social media....Between 2012 and 2015, depression in boys increased by 21% and in girls by 50%.

By 2015, 92% of teens and young adults owned a smartphone. But, as smartphone use increased, so did feelings of depression.

A 2017 study of 8th to 12th graders found that high levels of depressive symptoms increased by 33% between 2010 and 2015. The suicide rate for girls in this age group increased by 65%.

And it’s only gotten worse.

Child suicide rates increased by up to 150%, and self-harm by girls ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled. These patterns point to social media.


https://mhanational.org/issues/state-mental-health-america
infographic_page_2021_State_of_MH_in_America_report.jpg

Yes. We know you globalist nazis prefer ignorance and dumbing down the population.
 
Fox lies and lies and then hides. Note they did nor correct their error in another fake Hillary scandal. Murdoch must love how dumb Americans are as they still watch and he and family get richer. Fox remains a serious threat to our republic.

'Hillary Clinton On Fox News’ Amplification Of “Spying” Claims: "They’re Getting Awfully Close To Actual Malice In Their Attacks"'

https://deadline.com/2022/02/hillary-clinton-fox-news-actual-malice-1234956245/


'Just facts daily' is a right wing source and as such not a valid source of information. When your starting point leans right or left you are not a news source bit a propaganda outlet. Fakes are fakes - wake up. The site I use gives you info, learn to read it and think for yourself.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-facts-daily/
 
Fox lies and lies and then hides. Note they did nor correct their error in another fake Hillary scandal. Murdoch must love how dumb Americans are as they still watch and he and family get richer. Fox remains a serious threat to our republic.

'Hillary Clinton On Fox News’ Amplification Of “Spying” Claims: "They’re Getting Awfully Close To Actual Malice In Their Attacks"'

https://deadline.com/2022/02/hillary-clinton-fox-news-actual-malice-1234956245/


'Just facts daily' is a right wing source and as such not a valid source of information. When your starting point leans right or left you are not a news source bit a propaganda outlet. Fakes are fakes - wake up. The site I use gives you info, learn to read it and think for yourself.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-facts-daily/

What plan of action do you recommend to solve this problem?

It's part of court testimony that Alex Jones just plays a character and that no one takes Tucker Carlson seriously. Since that's true, shouldn't shows have to display some sort of veracity rating?
 
Most of the information presented by Fox OAN and Newsmax pretends to be news but is opinion.
False premise. Each clearly delineates between opinion shows and news shows. Even if not, it would not be a "threat to Democracy." But, since that delineation is held to, those networks are a threat to the DNC.
 
The other day watching OAN to see what they are up to in the fake news industry, they were covering the insurrection at the Capitol and claiming it was peaceful demonstration in which the 'hoodlums' were invited into the building by the Capitol police. Unreal that this can pass as a news source. Putin would love OAN, it is right up his alley. But ATT being involved in fake anti-democracy news must make one wonder why.

'How AT&T helped build far-right One America News'

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/07/att-source-revenue-one-america-news
 
News you thought you'd never read......


When you read the hate and anti-American democracy from the radical republicans and Christian autocrats, you must wonder how long America will last? Any reader of history knows this, but we all live in a small frame of time. Seems Canada is keeping watch, imagine a time in which Canada blocks its borders to both the hate and to those who want to escape what American has become under the republicans today. Autocracy appeals to the weak and needy whose hate and religion manages their minds and their values, democratic freedom scares them.


'Canadian national security task force is preparing for the collapse of the United States'

https://www.rawstory.com/canada-fears-united-states-downfall/

""Its democratic institutions have suffered erosion, as reflected in partisan pressure on the electoral process, bias and dysfunction in the criminal justice system, harmful policies on immigration and asylum seekers, and growing disparities in wealth, economic opportunity, and political influence," the site said."
 
News you thought you'd never read......


When you read the hate and anti-American democracy from the radical republicans and Christian autocrats, you must wonder how long America will last? Any reader of history knows this, but we all live in a small frame of time. Seems Canada is keeping watch, imagine a time in which Canada blocks its borders to both the hate and to those who want to escape what American has become under the republicans today. Autocracy appeals to the weak and needy whose hate and religion manages their minds and their values, democratic freedom scares them.


'Canadian national security task force is preparing for the collapse of the United States'

https://www.rawstory.com/canada-fears-united-states-downfall/

""Its democratic institutions have suffered erosion, as reflected in partisan pressure on the electoral process, bias and dysfunction in the criminal justice system, harmful policies on immigration and asylum seekers, and growing disparities in wealth, economic opportunity, and political influence," the site said."
It’s truly frightening.
 
We seem to be getting off track here. If two posters feel the need to engage in a 'no, you are' repartee, please do it in another place. Thanks. OP below is a bit dated but covers how Fox became propaganda and not news.


"Fear, in fact, is precisely what Ailes is selling: His network has relentlessly hyped phantom menaces like the planned 'terror mosque' near Ground Zero, inspiring Florida pastor Terry Jones to torch the Koran. Privately, Murdoch is as impressed by Ailes' business savvy as he is dismissive of his extremist politics. 'You know Roger is crazy,'' Murdoch recently told a colleague, shaking his head in disbelief. 'He really believes that stuff.'

To watch even a day of Fox News – the anger, the bombast, the virulent paranoid streak, the unending appeals to white resentment, the reporting that's held to the same standard of evidence as a late-*October attack ad – is to see a refraction of its founder, one of the most skilled and fearsome operatives in the history of the Republican Party...."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-244652/
 
A simple answer to the question of whether or not specific news outlets are a threat to Democracy is, yes, they are. Specifically, the TV broadcasts and specific hosts like Tucker Carlson who dishonesty spread disinformation and sow distrust.
 
Watching Newsmax or OAN reminds me so much of RT. Oddly even RT seems more balanced so long as the story stays far from critical of Russia's leaders. For the reader Peter Pomerantsev's 'Nothing is True and Everything is Possible'. It is world hard to comprehend in many ways, but a world we see today in America with the republicans and many of the wealthy.
 
Yesterday I had to turn to Fox OAN Newsmax to check out how they were praising Pres Joe Biden best job stats in fifty years. But what are they showing? A Chinese balloon and making all sort of ridiculous comments as is their usual fair. One wonders if they have ever used Google maps or thought of all the satellites circling the earth? No, of course not, they are propaganda tools for the easily played. Too funny.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-jobless-rate-in-50-years-after-strong-report



 
'...Newsmax Reporter Asks If Biden Is "Woke" | The Daily Show'


'Sarah Silverman called Newsmax “basically an even more far-right Fox News — like if your crazy uncle had a crazy uncle.”




Woke is a modern pejorative, how did that happen, for many it has no meaning outside the negative. It is the N word, the J word, the S word, the H word, etc etc revised. Or is that revisited. No need to think, just call it woke. Bill Maher delivers a diatribe recently that compared it to the very thing it opposes with no obvious irony. DeSantis uses it often and being an autocrat, it fits him well - name call - don't think. It comes out of the far right republican (so called) conservatives need to deny change, stop progress, or exclude the other. Why ponder, why consider, why learn, when you can label. Why acknowledge difference. Fox and other so called conservative networks like Newsmax and OAN use it often for it fits much of their audience and they must play along for the audience. You'd think humans would recognize by now the evil labeling creates but no, labels still work.
 
'...Newsmax Reporter Asks If Biden Is "Woke" | The Daily Show'

'Sarah Silverman called Newsmax “basically an even more far-right Fox News — like if your crazy uncle had a crazy uncle.”

[video=youtube;-VGXSwe6nEU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VGXSwe6nEU[/video


Woke is a modern pejorative, how did that happen, for many it has no meaning outside the negative. It is the N word, the J word, the S word, the H word, etc etc revised. Or is that revisited. No need to think, just call it woke. Bill Maher delivers a diatribe recently that compared it to the very thing it opposes with no obvious irony. DeSantis uses it often and being an autocrat, it fits him well - name call - don't think. It comes out of the far right republican (so called) conservatives need to deny change, stop progress, or exclude the other. Why ponder, why consider, why learn, when you can label. Why acknowledge difference. Fox and other so called conservative networks like Newsmax and OAN use it often for it fits much of their audience and they must play along for the audience. You'd think humans would recognize by now the evil labeling creates but no, labels still work.

Fear-mongering is the lowest form of politics and also the most common. “Woke” is no more than “civil rights” which many on JPP knew from the 1960s.

IMO, Democrats should stop using the word and simply use the Constitution and the term “Equal Protection Clause”. If Democrats stop using the word, the Republicans will have nothing to play off of in their fear-mongering.
 
Fear-mongering is the lowest form of politics and also the most common. “Woke” is no more than “civil rights” which many on JPP knew from the 1960s.

IMO, Democrats should stop using the word and simply use the Constitution and the term “Equal Protection Clause”. If Democrats stop using the word, the Republicans will have nothing to play off of in their fear-mongering.

(D)s hardly ever use "woke" though, except when countering it as an epithet tossed at us by the RW. It's taken the place of their former pejoratives "liberal" and "PC."
 
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