How Fox News pushed propaganda about the El Paso mass shooting

[TomCADem]

Before you know it, you will have Dan Patrick pushing a video game buyback where teens can hand it copies of Call of Duty an exchange them for actual guns.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-fox-news-pushed-propaganda-about-el-paso-mass-shooting

I spent a lot of time watching Fox News’ Saturday coverage of the El Paso shooting, and it was striking how the coverage bent toward propaganda. There were numerous interviews with survivors and witnesses that could have been done by any news outlet. But in between those interviews, Fox went out of its way to avoid any conversations about easy access to guns and the rash of far-right white nationalist shooters.

The network repeatedly speculated about a link between video games and the El Paso shooting.

On Sunday morning, Republicans Lt. Gov. of Texas Dan Patrick and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) both talked to Fox News about the dangers of video games as well. NBC's Ben Collins pointed out in return that “Nowhere did this shooter mention video games. The screed shows he had an encyclopedic knowledge of real-life guns, posted to a community of white nationalists, and wrote about doing this as part of a cause against immigration.”

Fox News also speculated about a link to ISIS, given the proximity to the “very porous” U.S.-Mexico border (the implicit and evidence-free theory being that an ISIS terrorist came over the border).

[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. In the free world, after the US, Japan

is the highest consumer of video games . . . . . No mass shootings there.

Blaming video games for mass shootings is gaslighting BS by the right wingers. Don't buy into it.

[lostnfound]

2. No one here buys it. It's scary that FOX watchers are fed such high levels of propaganda

[LessAspin]

3. James O'Keefe and Fox News

have been pushing this narrative for a long time...



As ridiculous this would appear FN viewers are fed a steady stream of this propaganda. So eventually they are preconditioned to believe this is plausible and probable.