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Why do people continue to take Fox News seriously?

SmartCat said:
FOX News and Rush Limbaugh have become popular because the mainstream media has been unwilling to address the problem of black crime.

Demonstrations against school integration and forced school busing were portrayed by the national media as raving mobs of white racists. No attention was given to what black majority public schools are like for the whites and Asians who attend.
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Wow I needed a good laugh this morning thanks!
 
SmartCat said:
FOX News and Rush Limbaugh have become popular because the mainstream media has been unwilling to address the problem of black crime.

Demonstrations against school integration and forced school busing were portrayed by the national media as raving mobs of white racists. No attention was given to what black majority public schools are like for the whites and Asians who attend.
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LOL! Yeah, that's what happened.
 
Jaygodmedia said:
Cnn and MSNBC does report the news fox news is clearly entertainment for uninformed gop voters.
Fox News Reports
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Forbes, Jul 21, 2016

In 2012, a Fairleigh Dickinson University survey reported that Fox News viewers were less informed about current events than people who didn't follow the news at all. The survey had asked current events questions like "Which party has the most seats in the House of Representatives?" and also asked what source of news people followed. The Fox viewers' current events scores were in the basement...

I have done similar surveys, both of current events and more general knowledge. In my research too, Fox News viewers scored the lowest of over 30 popular news sources.

A Rigorous Scientific Look Into The 'Fox News Effect'
 
Fox takes the likes of Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson and puts them on their opinion shows. Most all of the others take people with the same or more extent of bias for the left and calls them News Anchors and reporters.
 
The vast majority of FOX Viewers are white. Most journalists are liberal, especially on social issues. Many whites are not. Few liberal journalists deliberately lie. Those who do get fired. Nevertheless, a journalist's political views influence which facts the journalist considers to be newsworthy, and which facts the journalist considers not to be newsworthy.

In a conflict between police and blacks liberal journalists will emphasize forceful behavior by the police, and portray the blacks as unoffending victims of police brutality. They will downplay the fact that the blacks are usually violating the law, and the police are trying to enforce it.

In the United States it has become dangerous to criticize Negroes. Whites with a low opinion of the Negro race find other targets against which to vent their hostility. They will complain about big government, high taxes, prominent liberals, and the mainstream media - which presents images of the United States which differ from what they have experienced in their lives.

A favorite method for FOX and Rush Limbaugh is to draw attention to an obscure college professor, or other leftist activist, who makes a bizarre statement - that whites should not have children, or something like that. The person making the statement has no significance and no ability to achieve what he advocates. Nevertheless, hostile people look for hate targets.

The average age of a FOX viewer is 65. FOX viewers are angry about changes in the United States. FOX articulates this anger and channels it in directions that are beneficial to the Republican Party.

The real concerns of the Republican Party are to make rich businessmen and business executives richer and more powerful. These wealthy clients of and donors to the GOP want the lowest possible taxes for themselves, the fewest possible regulations, and the most generous business subsidies that are possible. Most Americans, even most whites, oppose these things. Thus propagandists for the Republican Party, like FOX, appeal to social resentments to get an audience. It works for FOX and the GOP.
 
Why do people take CNN or MSNBC seriously? For that matter, why do people take anything in the MSM seriously? Nobody trusts the MSM anymore. Trump saw to that; he exposed them for what they are. Political ass kissing lackies.
 
Waddy said:
Why do people take CNN or MSNBC seriously? For that matter, why do people take anything in the MSM seriously? Nobody trusts the MSM anymore. Trump saw to that; he exposed them for what they are. Political ass kissing lackies.
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Trump, Hannity, Limbaugh Savage, Levin, Jones, Ingraham have convinced you and others that the MSM always lies. I am sorry that you have become one of those who will support tRump when he makes an effort to shut down the media which criticises him, even though it is only reporting the facts. Too many Americans are of the same mindless mind.
 
Somerville said:
Trump, Hannity, Limbaugh Savage, Levin, Jones, Ingraham have convinced you and others that the MSM always lies. I am sorry that you have become one of those who will support tRump when he makes an effort to shut down the media which criticises him, even though it is only reporting the facts. Too many Americans are of the same mindless mind.
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Thanks. You help make my case. When someone disagrees; bring on the personal insults. Bring on the character assassination. Bring on the ad hominen attacks. You couldn't just state your opinion, it has to be accompanied by insults. I guess it's not in liberal DNA to debate in a courteous, respectful manner. Insults do not make your arguments more logical.

But I love to wrestle with pigs. I like the dirt. So long as the pigs start the fight. Like now......... :) Libtards believe whatever the MSM and their Democratic plantation leaders tell them. God forbid the house boys go off the plantation and have an independent thought of their own.
 
Waddy said:
Thanks. You help make my case. When someone disagrees; bring on the personal insults. Bring on the character assassination. Bring on the ad hominen attacks. You couldn't just state your opinion, it has to be accompanied by insults. I guess it's not in liberal DNA to debate in a courteous, respectful manner. Insults do not make your arguments more logical.

But I love to wrestle with pigs. I like the dirt. So long as the pigs start the fight. Like now......... :) Libtards believe whatever the MSM and their Democratic plantation leaders tell them. God forbid the house boys go off the plantation and have an independent thought of their own.
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There is no need for insults. All one needs is to hear someone is a Rush or Hannity fan, and we immediately know they are stupid.
 
calamity said:
There is no need for insults. All one needs is to hear someone is a Rush or Hannity fan, and we immediately know they are stupid.
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As Forrest so eloquently put it; stupid is as stupid does. Must be kinda hard to tell one from the other for you all. My experience is that people who call other people stupid are pretty stupid themselves.
 
Waddy said:
Thanks. You help make my case. When someone disagrees; bring on the personal insults. Bring on the character assassination. Bring on the ad hominen attacks. You couldn't just state your opinion, it has to be accompanied by insults. I guess it's not in liberal DNA to debate in a courteous, respectful manner. Insults do not make your arguments more logical.

But I love to wrestle with pigs. I like the dirt. So long as the pigs start the fight. Like now......... :) Libtards believe whatever the MSM and their Democratic plantation leaders tell them. God forbid the house boys go off the plantation and have an independent thought of their own.
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Oh, you're kinda cute defending your cluelessness. Hope you have fun wrestling with pigs. I prefer sailing.
 
Somerville said:
Oh, you're kinda cute defending your cluelessness. Hope you have fun wrestling with pigs. I prefer sailing.
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No, you don't. You just jumped in a pig fight with both feet. Now, I don't start the pig fights, but I do relish wrestling with pigs. So I'm glad to see you come on board. You're doing a good job towing the line for the Democratic plantation owners. Nice and easy, no need to think for yourself.
 
All news companies have bias. But Fox News goes way beyond bias to propaganda. This is due to their rumor mongering and conspiracy theory spinning. Its no secret. They do this right up front for everyone to see. Because of this, everyone recognizes it, and thus they're not held to any journalistic standard. People defend them by creating a false equivalency. They say that other networks do much the same thing. But they don't. They don't rumor monger or peddle conspiracies. They don't shill for a political party or a for a politician the way Fox News shills for the GOP and for Trump. They're just typically biased and otherwise cover the news as faithfully as they can. Nobody really expects this from a Fox News show. Hannity doesn't claim to be journalist.

It's like Trump. When politicians get caught lying, like journalists, they are excoriated for it. But not Trump or Fox News. Nobody cares that they lie because nobody expects them to tell the truth. Even their supporters know they lie. They accept it and rationalize it.
 
j brown's body said:
All news companies have bias. But Fox News goes way beyond bias to propaganda. This is due to their rumor mongering and conspiracy theory spinning. Its no secret. They do this right up front for everyone to see. Because of this, everyone recognizes it, and thus they're not held to any journalistic standard. People defend them by creating a false equivalency. They say that other networks do much the same thing. But they don't. They don't rumor monger or peddle conspiracies. They don't shill for a political party or a for a politician the way Fox News shills for the GOP and for Trump. They're just typically biased and otherwise cover the news as faithfully as they can. Nobody really expects this from a Fox News show. Hannity doesn't claim to be journalist.

It's like Trump. When politicians get caught lying, like journalists, they are excoriated for it. But not Trump or Fox News. Nobody cares that they lie because nobody expects them to tell the truth. Even their supporters know they lie. They accept it and rationalize it.
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:lamo
That's funny...thanks.
 
madasheck said:
Despite a few seemingly serious news people at Fox (like Shep Smith), the face of Fox News is basically Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson. They're all full of rage every night at everyone else in the media and spewing conspiracy theories, faux outrage as well as what's wrong with everyone in the Democratic Party. This is not news (which some think it is) or even serious political commentary. It's a circus. Fox may have started with the intention of having an alternate news source, but it's nothing like that now. News is not hurling accusations for 15 minutes each night at the beginning of your show (like Hannity and his stooge so-called Judge Pirro does). Even the real news media doesn't take Fox seriously. It's the laughing stock among those work in the media and not just those at Fox's favorite targets like CNN.

So why do some people take this Fox crap seriously when so many people are laughing at it?
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"Fox may have started with the intention of having an alternate news source"

Fox never started that way. It was always meant to incite fear and anger. People don't think rationally when they are fearful and angry and can be easily swayed by propaganda.

Interesting article here:

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
 
Quaestio said:
"Fox may have started with the intention of having an alternate news source"

Fox never started that way. It was always meant to incite fear and anger. People don't think rationally when they are fearful and angry and can be easily swayed by propaganda.

Interesting article here:

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
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Citing propaganda from one of the barking loon lefty rags is hilarious
 
TurtleDude said:
Citing propaganda from one of the barking loon lefty rags is hilarious
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That's okay, I don't expect you to understand why you're so fearful and angry. You just want to stay angry.
 
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Quaestio said:
That's okay, I don't expect you to understand why you're so fearful and angry. You just want to stay angry.
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Do you just make stuff up so you can feel better or do you constantly lie? I am laughing at someone thinking "Rolling Stone" is anything other than far left barking loon propaganda.
 
TurtleDude said:
Do you just make stuff up so you can feel better or do you constantly lie? I am laughing at someone thinking "Rolling Stone" is anything other than far left barking loon propaganda.
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An angry turtle is pretty funny.
 
Quaestio said:
An angry turtle is pretty funny.
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Who exactly are you? Not someone who has any clue about me. I am not angry-I am laughing at someone thinking Rolling Stone is a objective source of information when it comes to politics
 
madasheck said:
Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson.
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These 3 are as discussing as Trump himself.

You will never hear hate or language as these folks use, lies or conspiracy theories on MSM like these demons spew.

Just when does first amendment rights end and hate speech begin?
 
TurtleDude said:
Do you just make stuff up so you can feel better or do you constantly lie? I am laughing at someone thinking "Rolling Stone" is anything other than far left barking loon propaganda.
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everything is far left except wingnut propaganda

yeah, we know

God Bless.
 
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