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FM123

(10,053 posts) Thu Apr 16, 2020, 12:19 PM Apr 2020

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So I sent this Newsweek article & link to a friendly trumpish neighbor. [View all]

I never do stuff like that - but he is trying to be "helpful" by sending out Covid19 info to folks in the neighborhood (he sits on homeowners board) unfortunately from unreliable sources like Fux. I don't know if he will think twice in the future about sending out garbage, but I felt unable to resist the urge to push back. I don't have very many trumpy neighbors, but this is one...

JOURNALISM PROFESSORS CALL FOR AN END TO FOX NEWS CORONAVIRUS 'MISINFORMATION' IN OPEN LETTER TO RUPERT MURDOCH

Columbia Journalism School Professor Todd Gitlin and 73 others said: "The misinformation that reaches the Fox News audience is a danger to public health. Indeed, it is not an overstatement to say that your misreporting endangers your own viewers—and not only them, for in a pandemic, individual behavior affects significant numbers of other people as well.

"Yet by commission as well as omission—direct, uncontested misinformation as well as failure to report the true dimensions of the crisis—Fox News has been derelict in its duty to provide clear and accurate information about COVID-19."

https://www.newsweek.com/journalism-professors-fox-news-end-coronavirus-misinformation-open-letter-1495688

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So I sent this Newsweek article & link to a friendly trumpish neighbor. [View all] FM123 Apr 2020 OP

k&r for right action. n/t Laelth Apr 2020 #1

When we will the election, I hope that action is taken to remove the broadcast license of FOX. olegramps Apr 2020 #39

Dr. Phil no longer has a license wryter2000 Apr 2020 #43

Awesome! nt Phoenix61 Apr 2020 #2

Well done, FM123. May it have your (our) desired effect. n/t MFGsunny Apr 2020 #3

This is a serious public issue and faux news is one of the primary sources of this misinformation... SWBTATTReg Apr 2020 #4

Absolutely. They should be held accountable. Licenses should be revoked. olegramps Apr 2020 #40

K&R pandr32 Apr 2020 #5

You're a hero DonaldsRump Apr 2020 #6

It is our duty to inform! gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #7

Good for you! Joinfortmill Apr 2020 #8

A friend shared a Newsweek article on fb barbtries Apr 2020 #9

Maybe Fox should change their advertising slogan Metro135 Apr 2020 #10

Or: DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #25

ive always said ,"unfair and unbalanced "," and may i add you die". AllaN01Bear Apr 2020 #42

FOX Kills. K&R crickets Apr 2020 #11

and Limbaugh and all other hate-talk radio and all rethugs diva77 Apr 2020 #19

Is that bastard on the air still? Blue_playwright Apr 2020 #26

Like a cockroach after a nuclear holocaust... Wednesdays Apr 2020 #28

Please let us know any response you get! liberalla Apr 2020 #12

I sure will. Nothing yet.... FM123 Apr 2020 #23

"friendly trumpish neighbor"??? Nacht Owl Apr 2020 #13

Good thought, but not fooled Apr 2020 #14

Thank you, admire your efforts to educate people. DTomlinson Apr 2020 #15

And? And? Did he reply? NM Grins Apr 2020 #16

Well, it was worth a shot Warpy Apr 2020 #17

They respond with who are the Journalism people you are talking about? What is a journalism? LiberalArkie Apr 2020 #18

Telling him that you're shocked at the level of ignorance he is lunatica Apr 2020 #20

I hope you highlighted perfessor Apr 2020 #21

You sound like Alice's Restaurant :) hangaleft Apr 2020 #33

K&R Blue Owl Apr 2020 #22

I had Todd Gitlin as a sociology professor at Berkeley. deurbano Apr 2020 #24

Liability Issue nwliberalkiwi Apr 2020 #27

UPDATE: FM123 Apr 2020 #29

WOW! liberalla Apr 2020 #30

Really surprising. FM123 Apr 2020 #31

And the sad thing is this Dan Apr 2020 #41

Halleluiah! n/t soldierant Apr 2020 #32

k&r Demovictory9 Apr 2020 #34

I saw a report that said that Fox News watchers were less informed about current Poiuyt Apr 2020 #35

That makes sense DFW Apr 2020 #36

Anyone who sends out conservative propaganda is fair game ibegurpard Apr 2020 #37

Endangering the public health should be adequate cause to shut the network down. In my dreams. JudyM Apr 2020 #38