Uh-Oh ... This could be bigly

[EffieBlack]

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1. bias at foxnews???

i'm shocked!

shocked, i tells ya!

[dewsgirl]

2. That's why this story is all over my time line on Twitter this morning. Thank you for summing

It up.
Should be a big deal, so should about 10 stories everyday. Everything gets buried in the chaos, I imagine this is by design on some level.

[Mr.Bill]

9. We're getting closer to that point

where Trump will actually have to shoot that person on 5th Avenue to push everything off the news.

But after watching him at CPAC and the crowd's reaction, I'm sure such an act would raise him ten points in the polls. I'm not kidding, nor is this sarcasm.

[dewsgirl]

15. It is horrifying, the pace at which this chaotic disater is moving. People can't keep up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I just read the story. Everyone should. The extent to which Fox has become state media

like Pravda is really shocking. There is no longer a dividing line between the Trump administration and Fox; Fox, more than Trump, decides government policy. Murdoch's clearly-stated motivation is money, not ideology, and he discovered years ago that fear gets people wound up and tuned in. Scary stuff and I don't know what can be done about it.

[Hortensis]

17. Jane Mayer's very good. I have a feed for anything she writes,

but unfortunately no longer a subscription to NYer. I'll spend one of my remaining "3 free articles for this month" on this one, though.

[BSdetect]

4. Can an NDA cover up a crime?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. It would be unenforceable.

If you had signed one as a condition of getting a job, for example, then witnessed a crime related to your employment, and later you reported the crime but got sued for violating the NDA, a court wouldn't enforce it.

[okaawhatever]

10. Problem is, not reporting on a story isn't a crime. nt

[bluestarone]

5. Should they lose there broadcasters license!

Wishing so!

[okaawhatever]

11. That isn't a possibility. Per the FCC

"We license only individual broadcast stations. We do not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox) or other organizations with which stations have relationships (such as PBS or NPR)"

Also, one of the reasons so many campaign laws fell by the wayside was because scotus ruled that broadcast license holders were subject to laws written by congress because the airwaves belong to the people of the US, not the broadcasters. When cable tv came along and the cable lines were privately held, the ruling didn't apply.

[11 Bravo]

14. Nope! It's simply probative that Fox is not, and has never been ...

an actual source of "news". They are a for-profit propaganda outlet, and should be treated as such.

[Hortensis]

16. We can change the regulations, though. And, boy,

are very big changes needed. How about re-creating a requirement to provide a half hour of honest, public-service news every day? Cable and on-line services where people go to get news, not just broadcasts?

How about a national "no yelling fire in a crowded nation" law for the dissemination of blatant political lies?

November 3, 2020, hurry up!

[Horizens]

7. Why

am I not the least bit surprised?

[DemocracyMouse]

8. That image of Fox News above White House would only please the low info voters

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Bigly enough to disappear for lack of meaningful thread title?

[TeamPooka]

13. Their viewers will thank Fox News for keeping the truth from hurting them. nt