The ridiculousness on FOX News never ends...

[MrScorpio]

Channel surfing, I can across Fox & Friends Jr., where they had a story of Tyson Gay's daughter dying in gunfire. Of course, they made sure to flash some mugshots of the scary black suspects. But it was the story that they segued to which highlights their blatant agenda.

Without any sense of irony at all, they went straight to a recap of the Niners/Bills game, paying special attention to the fact that the Colin Kaepernick was constantly and loudly booed by the mob in the stands and especially during the National Anthem, while a white cop was saluting behind the three black kneeling players. The actual gameplay and score was an afterthought, of course.

Did I mention that they conveniently neglected to point out that the kneeling was done in the protest of black lives being lost? Yes, they did.

Everything was there: Taking things out of context, scary black people, an ideological reinforcement of white goodness and black badness through juxtaposition and of course, the jingoism, distortions and half-truths. Most FOX watchers are scared white people, brimming with feelings of anti-black bias, as well as a lingering feeling of resentment and anger against just about everything and the completely inability to understand and explain what makes them angry in the first place. So, let's trigger than anger and fear with the right imagery, shall we?

In just those few moments, it's quite clear that viewers of FOX come away from it more uninformed than people who watch no news at all. Because they're NOT a news outlet, they're nothing more than a propaganda mill. And, in spite of the departure of Roger Ailes, they're not going to change any time soon.

[Fast Walker 52]

1. that sort of programming is embedded deep in their culture by now, it's reflexive

The question is-- who controls it? The individual show producers or directors? Or does something just permeate the air there that makes them automatically present "news" this way.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. They just follow the orders

that their corporate master give them.

[Botany]

2. Fox News is not news but is based on lying to the American People < 20% of the time do they ....

.... the truth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/10/14/how-a-lie-takes-flight-on-fox-newss-hannity/?utm_term=.35d5df3adc1c

[LittleGirl]

3. Infotainment eom

[ananda]

4. I am so thankful for the hide channel feature ..

.. so I can completely ignore so many channels.

Fox? They're dead to me.

[Coolest Ranger]

5. Fox and Friends had a child

cue the horror music

[John1956PA]

6. Thank you for your insiightful post.

As you point out, Faux has no shame. In the twisted irony resulting from the juxtapositioning of those two sets of images (i. e., possible killers belonging to a particular race versus a sports figure of that race who speaks out against the profiling and condescension of it) the viewers of that shameful network experience reinforcement of their racial prejudices. I am thinking that the Faux producers frequently use this subtle tactic, but we DUers are unaware of it because we are not watching. You were very frustrated at having witnesses that broadcasting abomination. I appreciate that you applied considerable effort to craft your excellent post which reported it to us.

[rgbecker]

9. +100, Thanks John.

We have so far to go, will we ever get there?

[spanone]

7. faux is a cancer on democracy

[Stellar]

8. There's always some scary black person lurking around out there. nt

[still_one]

10. It isn't ridiculousness, they are frickn evil. They constantly misiform, and distort

[Skittles]

12. correct

they used the tragic death of a 15 year old girl to push their hateful agenda