Fox News viewers have no clue: Network blocks nearly all critical coverage of Donald Trump

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Fox News viewers have no clue: Network blocks nearly all critical coverage of Donald Trump
Fox News viewers are almost completely in the dark about Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection or the revelations since then

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
PUBLISHED JUNE 8, 2022 9:49AM


(Salon) I doubt there is anyone in America who is surprised that Fox News has decided not to carry the January 6th committee hearings. Why would they want to make their audience feel disoriented with a bunch of disturbing information they've heard nothing about despite tuning in regularly to their favorite "news" network? It would be like getting a dispatch from another planet. It's very upsetting, and if there's one thing neither Republicans nor their propaganda channels are willing to do it's make their followers angry.

Recall that Fox News was the first network to call the Arizona election for Joe Biden, which sent the entire right-wing into a frenzy. It resulted in Fox finally giving up any pretense of being a real news network. According to "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" by CNN's Brian Stelter, Trump got the ball rolling by tweeting out his anger and going on "Fox and Friends" to complain, asking: "What's the biggest difference between this and four years ago? I say Fox. It's much different now." Soon his rabid supporters were gathering outside the Phoenix, Arizona counting center yelling "Fox News Sucks" and Facebook groups were forming telling people to switch to Newsmax and One America News. And for a while, they did just that. In December of 2020, for the first time, Newsmax actually beat Fox News in the ratings. Fox executives greeted this crisis as an existential threat with one producer telling Stelter, "we're bleeding eyeballs, And we're scared." Their ratings were nosediving "20, 25, 30 percent, even though the news cycle was nothing short of epic." Remember, this was the post-election period — it was epic indeed. Stelter wrote:

"Our audience hates this," one executive said to me in a moment of candor. "This" was Biden as president-elect and Kamala Harris as VP-elect. "They're pissed," said a second source. "Seething," said another.

The word apparently came from on high that they'd better figure out a way to get their audience back. So Fox News fired the election team that called the Arizona election results and re-tooled immediately, starting by giving the audience what they were demanding: false hope. They pushed the voter fraud conspiracies to the point that Fox News even became the subject of huge defamation lawsuits by the voting machine companies. And then the network went after anyone who didn't go along with the program.

Rupert Murdoch himself was said to be guiding decisions to remove anyone who wasn't deemed hysterical and shrill enough to entice the disappointed Trumpers back into the fold, marginalizing the few more or less straight news people and giving carte blanche to their "opinion" personalities to follow their bliss into the right-wing fever swamps. The result is Tucker Carlson and his Great Replacement Hour. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/06/08/fox-news-viewers-have-no-clue-network-blocks-nearly-all-critical-coverage-of-donald/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. I boycott every advertiser on Fox.

I won’t support slime.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Murdock doesn't do mass opinion manipulation just for money, does it for the pure pleasure of it.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. "No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper."

Mike Royko pegged the bottom dweller. Another nice example, “Whitewater,” used to tar and destroy the Clinton brand.

RUPERT MURDOCH'S SCUMBAG CONNECTION

By Mike Royko
Chicago Tribune, Feb 15, 1995

Excerpt…

Anyway, a few days ago this William Rees-Mogg wrote a column in The Times that set out to reveal how much trouble President Bill Clinton is really in.

Snip…

Here's the sordid tale:

"What is the basic truth of this Whitewater matter? To put it briefly: The state of Arkansas was corrupt the way Mexico is corrupt, long before Bill Clinton entered state politics, long before he was born.

"The corruption goes back over a hundred years to the period after the Civil War. In the 1970s, the corruption came to be financed by drug money, even before Clinton became governor. People got killed; we even know the names of some of the hit men.

By the early 1980s, drug importation through Arkansas, much of it through Mena airport, reached billions of dollars. The new narco-millionaires bought political protection by bribery and by financing political campaigns, including Clinton's. They made it their business to involve and implicate their political allies.

"They killed dangerous witnesses, including schoolboys and probably including Vincent Foster; his body was moved, his suicide was faked.

"As governor, Bill Clinton set up his own unaccounted $700 million Adfa operation, which made loans to his supporters and friends, many of whom subscribed to his political fund.

"In the 1980s, Arkansas was awash with cocaine and money-laundering. It may have been impossible for Bill Clinton to keep his hands clean, but his great mistake was to think that he could go from being governor of Arkansas, a deeply corrupted state, to being U.S. president without the truth emerging."

Snip…

His paper is owned by journalism's No. 1 scumbag-Rupert Murdoch, the international media tycoon who bought the Chicago Sun-Times 11 years ago, trashed it, bled it and moved on to other plunder.

Murdoch, a billionaire, loathes Democrats. He prefers Republican politicians, to whom he can give multimillion dollar book advances.

He owns the Fox Network and several American newspapers. So if Rees-Mogg's story is true, the Murdoch empire has the resources to dig it out and give us the facts. Instead, his lackeys nip at the heels.

For business purposes, Murdoch, an Australian, has taken on American citizenship.

Continues…

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-02-15-9502160134-story.html

[Lovie777]

2. Ya know, there is social media and word by mouth by sane family members and neighbors . . .

co-workers, etc.

Conclusion, brainwashed, and that is dangerous. fake news know what they are doing and it ain't for any betterment for the USA but to destroy it.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Rupert Murdock, most evil Thing alive, and it spawned some equally evil offspring.

Fox is the devils own network.

[Pyryck]

5. I can attest to this, having witnessed it first hand and every day since

But I would disagree as to when it started.

THAT network recently celebrated 25yrs of Hannity's "opinions" and "entertainment" being broadcasted.