In stiff-arming Fox News, Democrats get one big thing right

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In this week’s New Yorker magazine, Jane Mayer amassed an impressive array of newly reported details demonstrating that Fox News has, at its core, ceased to be anything resembling a right-leaning news network and instead has basically merged with President Trump’s reelection operation.

The piece reported on various things Fox News may have done on Trump’s behalf, such as kill unflattering stories (which was disputed). It reported that numerous Fox hosts, such as Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, regularly offer private advice to the president (which, to my knowledge, is not disputed). And multiple Fox employees have cycled into the White House.

But the real scandal is in the day-to-day messaging that blares forth from Fox, which has become akin to what one observer describes to Mayer as “state TV."

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All of which has led the Democratic Party to nix the possibility of any Democratic primary debates hosted by Fox News:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/in-stiff-arming-fox-news-democrats-get-one-big-thing-right/ar-BBUsFKL?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. 'Trump TV' is a stronger, more toxic label

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2. It's time -- high time -- to take Fox News's destructive role in America seriously,

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But we never know what those standards might be. Unlike most news organizations, Fox News doesn’t seem to have a department in charge of ethics and standards, and it certainly doesn’t publish its guidelines as some do.

So, yes, Fox News can continue to function as something close to Trump TV. It can go on spreading disinformation.

But everyone ought to see it for what it is: Not a normal news organization with inevitable screw-ups, flaws and commercial interests, which sometimes fail to serve the public interest.

But a shameless propaganda outfit, which makes billions of dollars a year as it chips away at the core democratic values we ought to hold dear: truth, accountability and the rule of law.

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3. I took it seriously back in

2000.. as I'm sure a lot of other people did. Just not enough.