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How Fox News Has Made Every Single Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse
How Fox News Has Made Every Single Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse
THE NEW ABNORMAL
The network is celebrating a quarter-century of ruining our society—and the latest episode of The New Abnormal counts the ways. Plus, curbing Facebook, Roe’s future, and more.
The Daily Beast, Fri, October 8, 2021
Excerpt…
Yes, it’s been 25 years since Fox News came on the air—25 years of “refracting the absolute most absurd and destructive and deadly disinformation and misinformation from the right wing fever swamps,” Carusone tells co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Jesse Cannon on the latest episode of The New Abnormal.
And “everything is worse because of it,” Carusone adds—and the pandemic is just the biggest example. “There’s not a single moment, whether big or small—as big as the pandemic, as seemingly small as an appointment in the Department of Education—where Fox has not gotten in there and made it worse.”
Carusone offers a glimpse at what could ultimately rein in the network’s worst excesses—and it’s not just advertisers. “The cable companies are the ones that are really going to decide what Fox News is allowed to get away with,” he concludes.
Elsewhere in the conversation, he talks to Molly and Jesse about Facebook’s big moment in Congress this week, and what year was pivotal in making the social network the disinformation breeding ground it is today.
Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fox-news-has-made-every-single-moment-of-the-last-25-years-worse?ref=home?ref=home