Fox News' alarming vaccine disinformation is a danger to America (Opinion)
"Do you think we could've eradicated polio or defeated the measles if you had Fox News night after night warning people about these vaccine issues that are just bunk?" CNN's Jim Acosta asked Saturday of Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser.
Fauci response's was jaw-dropping: "If we had had the pushback for vaccines the way we're seeing on certain media I don't think it would have been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox, we probably would still have smallpox and we probably would still have polio in this country." The nation's premier infectious disease specialist added, "If we had the kind of false information that's being spread now, if we had that back decades ago, I would be certain that we'd still have polio in this country."
There's no dispute that Fox News has been delivering to its audience, of which almost 60% is in the high-risk over-65 age group, dangerously misleading information about the Covid vaccine and its rollout by the Biden administration. A report released Friday by the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters documents that the majority of vaccine-related segments that Fox News aired over the past two weeks "repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns."
Specifically, Media Matters found the between June 28 through July 11, "Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-alarming-vaccine-disinformation-is-a-danger-to-america-opinion/ar-AAMilQq
appalachiablue
(41,105 posts)undeniably responsible, like hate radio for huge negative political and social shifts. Media deregulation and corporate consolidation in the 80 and 90s, 40 years of this enormous machine and look at the mess in this country.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)due to Fox misinformation about Covid should sue them in a class action.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)..So much is filled with lies and " bent truth" presented as truth, that it is really.." Fox Lies"
But most don't care...all they really want is the "...Fox Propaganda..".....