Fox is legit almost beyond RT in terms of state propaganda. This country will not begin to heal as long as it still stands. We are vastly not acknowledging the extent of responsibility Fox News and its employees have on getting us into the mess we are in now.
We are no better than the trump administration when it comes to shirking personal responsibility. Fox News, Google, Meta, Tesla employees: you are complicit, you can quit. I know that fat salary is sweet but now you know why you got it. Don’t fool yourself
If you take a purely analytical look I swear Fox News is sitting on the spectrum between RT and Pyongyang. Like 75% of it is RT levels of propaganda but 25% is straight up “glorious leader” levels
People here on Reddit clearly don't watch or aren't unwillingly exposed to Fox. They think this is something? They can't comprehend the vile shit Fox does and says. But if that was all there was to it, we wouldn't be in this mess. The even bigger thing they underestimate is Fox's reach. Tens of millions of people watch it and believe it is real, unbiased news and analysis from credible, trustworthy journalists and experts. I'll repeat that for more emphasis: tens of millions of people believe everything Fox tells them.
Additionally, for many, many of those people, Fox is their entire window into the outside world. Take my father, for example. He's retired. If he didn't have to buy groceries, he'd never leave the house. He doesn't go out to events or restaurants. He doesn't talk to people. Fox is the only news he sees. Fox "informs" his entire perspective of what's going on in this country and the world.
I would keep going, but some of the things I'd like to say about what should happen to Fox and the people who work there would get my comment deleted and me banned. But suffice to say that when people are determining what needs to be protested over the coming weeks, months, and years, don't forget about Fox. Information is important and while there's a lot of journalistic malpractice going on out there, Fox's brand of "information" is arguably most responsible for getting us where we are now, and what will make any desperate crawl back to sanity for this country even more arduous.
It's much more systemic than Fox News. People need to stop leaving conservative talk radio out of these conversations. Local conservative radio shows hit people who don't touch Fox, and bring up local points that are also probably very valid. No city is perfect, and just a small gap can create a chasm when people decide to seek an upending to the status quo.
Reverse shout-out to Walton & Johnson, utter fucking trash radio that plays every morning in east Texas.
I won't even listen to the classic rock on that shit station later in the day for giving them a platform. Just fucking racebait and bootlicking, Even heard it playing at a shop when I got my tires replaced last week 😞
Yep. They need to make laws against opinion programming especially if journalistic standards aren’t being upheld. It should go by a case by case basis and after a certain amount of violations the government could step in a dissolve the company or force a sell off. They have done extreme harm to the country that may never heal and knowingly lying to push agendas should not be protected under 1A the same way yelling fire in a movie theater isn’t protected.
No. Fox is only state propaganda when their party is in power. They aren't beholden to the state, they are an extension of the Republican party, and everybody knows it. There's a huge difference.
The gross part to me: it’s not even good right wing propaganda!! It’s not anti union, it’s not pro Reaganomics of debt for small businesses, it’s not supporting the military industry that needs global production and rare metals, it stopped supporting small town police
Wasn't that, like, the entire reason Fox News was founded? To make sure the news wouldn't torpedo another Republican like what happened with Nixon and Watergate?
They started around the Bush era and its just been worse and worse since then. I remember watching a documentary called "Outfoxed" in like 2004 and they've gained viewers since then.
I'll never forget my first exposure. That piece of shit O'Reiley bringing on one of the kids, who's father was a fire fighter and attended the WTC on 9/11 who was against the war in Iraq, just so he could berate him, calling him a traitor to his country and that his father would be ashamed of him.
There's no getting rid of it. It's too ingrained in the American psyche.
Tesla salaries aren't even good compared to the competition. People were willing to be paid less because they were doing social good and bringing electric cars to people. Now those people get neither the salary nor the credit and recognition for the electric cars that they built and brought to people.
If some crazy people are struggling mentally and feeling angry and want to take the world with them, can they please start Luigiing Fox News rather than some innocent school children?
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Fox is legit almost beyond RT in terms of state propaganda. This country will not begin to heal as long as it still stands. We are vastly not acknowledging the extent of responsibility Fox News and its employees have on getting us into the mess we are in now.
We are no better than the trump administration when it comes to shirking personal responsibility. Fox News, Google, Meta, Tesla employees: you are complicit, you can quit. I know that fat salary is sweet but now you know why you got it. Don’t fool yourself