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Initech

(100,041 posts)
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 02:59 PM Jul 2022

Why aren't we calling out Fox News more? Let's talk about them for a minute.

And the increasing damage they are doing to this country. They are becoming a direct threat to the security of the United States. So let's lay out the facts as to what they are doing.

1. They spent 5 years convincing us that the most incompetent, grotesque excuse for a "leader" is somehow a god and the greatest president the US has ever had.

2. They were controlling this president's every move while he was in the White House. He even had a direct line to Sean Hannity every single night.

3. They jeopardized and compromised the Supreme Court, who are now hell bent and aggressively rolling back 100 years of human rights progress to the stone ages.

4. They are getting people elected to school boards who are banning any book that might express something negative to white people because of this "critical race theory" bullshit hysteria that they made up. God forbid that kids have an independent thought about anything.

5. They are encouraging the US to build a wall along the border because of made up hysteria and excessive and grotesque fearmongering about illegal immigrants.

6. They have doxxed abortion providers and even got some of them killed.

7. They compromised the Secret Service the day of the insurrection.

8. They are steering America down a dark path that embraces fascist authoritarian leaders like Viktor Orban who will do their every bidding.

9. They've actively encouraged people not to take the COVID-19 vaccine and other critical vaccines. And during COVID instead of doing the responsible thing, they suggested that people should take hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin - both "cures" that did absolutely nothing and even got people killed.

10. When mass shootings happen, they encourage people to buy more guns out of the fear they may be taken away. Which only makes the next mass shooting that much worse.

11. They have compromised states like Florida, Texas, and Ohio who are writing some ridiculously degrading and dehumanizing policies that the rest of the world would recognize as "cruel".

12. They have encouraged their candidates running in elections to not accept the results of the next election even if it means them losing.

13. They've potentially brought us to the brink of Civil War.

So much of what's wrong in the world can be traced back to the damage that this one news network has wrought on us. They are a danger to this country and a threat to the United States. It's way past time we start treating them like the threat to the US that they are. All of this shit can actively be traced back to Fox News. They are one of the worst things that's happened to this country in the last 20 years. And we need to start dealing with them and calling them out, or things are only going to get worse from here.

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Why aren't we calling out Fox News more? Let's talk about them for a minute. (Original Post) Initech Jul 2022 OP
If you want to take some forward action to stop fux check out checkmyads.org PortTack Jul 2022 #1
Think how much better things would be FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #2
The rest of the media should attack them the same way they are attacked. kentuck Jul 2022 #3
The only way to get rid of it is to turn it off and stop watching! jimfields33 Jul 2022 #4
But how will that get others to stop watching it? kentuck Jul 2022 #5
They are brainwashed. GoodRaisin Jul 2022 #9
I blocked it from my DVR! Initech Jul 2022 #8
My 90 year old aunt PXR-5 Jul 2022 #6
I was out in the neighborhood today with my mom this morning. Initech Jul 2022 #10
Fox News is InfoTainment Pyryck Jul 2022 #7
Rupert Murdoch is a fascist who should have... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2022 #11

PortTack

(32,710 posts)
1. If you want to take some forward action to stop fux check out checkmyads.org
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 03:05 PM
Jul 2022

These two women have been very successful with other similar ventures, so b4 you give lip service check out their unique approach.

checkmyads.org

FoxNewsSucks

(10,423 posts)
2. Think how much better things would be
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 04:13 PM
Jul 2022

if Fox never got off the ground, and Clear Channel hadn't blanketed AM radio with non-stop hatemongering.

kentuck

(111,053 posts)
3. The rest of the media should attack them the same way they are attacked.
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 04:19 PM
Jul 2022

They should be much more aggressive against FOX, in my opinion.

They should be called out early and often, for what they are and what they do.

jimfields33

(15,703 posts)
4. The only way to get rid of it is to turn it off and stop watching!
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 04:23 PM
Jul 2022

Less eyeballs eventually will see it go.

kentuck

(111,053 posts)
5. But how will that get others to stop watching it?
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 04:27 PM
Jul 2022

Do they need any encouragement? Or discouragement?

GoodRaisin

(8,908 posts)
9. They are brainwashed.
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 05:21 PM
Jul 2022

They need de-programming.

I haven’t a clue how to do it in time to save democracy. I’ve always thought we need our own network to push back on the lies, but it’s a little late for that now.

For now, I feel their audience is a lost cause.

We need to reach out to the 40% of eligible voters who didn’t vote in the last election.

PXR-5

(522 posts)
6. My 90 year old aunt
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 05:00 PM
Jul 2022

Watches faux News about 8 hours a day.

She won't open her windows anymore because she is so afraid of crime, yet she lives in a real nice secure senior community.

Sadly she is so brainwashed we barely talk to her anymore.

The priest at her Catholic church constantly calls out Biden as a fake Catholic, so this also enforces faux News.

Initech

(100,041 posts)
10. I was out in the neighborhood today with my mom this morning.
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 05:22 PM
Jul 2022

We were talking to the kids across the street - both around 12 - 14 age. One of them said that her favorite subject was English. So mom who taught English, asked what her favorite books were, and asked if she read "To Kill A Mockingbird". I was stunned at her response. Her response? "We haven't read it because the school board banned it over critical race theory concerns". My jaw hit the floor. But I immediately knew where this bullshit was coming from. So yeah fuck Fox News to the highest circle of hell.

Pyryck

(99 posts)
7. Fox News is InfoTainment
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 05:15 PM
Jul 2022

and no sane person in their "correct" mind (vs right mind) would believe anything Fox News puts out as "news".

At least that's what I remember the lawyers for Faux Snooze arguing in court a couple decades back.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
11. Rupert Murdoch is a fascist who should have...
Sat Jul 16, 2022, 06:11 PM
Jul 2022

... his USA citizenship revoked, although it probably will never happen unless he's guilty of the following:
https://www.findlaw.com/immigration/citizenship/can-your-u-s-citizenship-be-revoked-.html

Joining the Nazi party is one of the examples listed in the above link to get your citizenship revoked, but I doubt that Murdoch would ever allow that to be publicly known if he did.

If he's no longer a USA citizen, he loses free speech protection under the 1st Amendment. (Or even the ability to be a majority owner of a media company here, unless the FCC changed their policies.) Even Brett Kavanaugh expressed that opinion in a Supreme Court ruling.

Ted Turner compared Murdoch to Hitler back in 1996, or maybe even earlier?

TURNER LASHES OUT AT MURDOCH, COMPARING HIM TO `LATE FUHRER'
Chicago Tribune
Sep 27, 1996

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-09-27-9609280152-story.html

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