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What to do with Fox news?
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laughing dog
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Ignore it. The smaller the audience, the quicker it either changes its format or the quicker it dies.
And the continuing assault on freedom of speech by the libruls contines unabated. Tune into Fox tonight for continuing coverage about how you're so special and important that they feel the need to resort to such desperate measures due to being so afraid of how powerful and correct you are.
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Because some guy, on some other forum, is asking nearly the same question, like this:
Derec
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What could you do? First Amendment protects them.
Besides, they are no worse than MSNBC. In fact, pundit panels on Fox are much more ideologically diverse than those on MSNBC, which on most shows are just left-wing echo chambers. Also, Fox hasn't hired anyone quite as disreputable as Al Sharpton.
Besides, they are no worse than MSNBC. In fact, pundit panels on Fox are much more ideologically diverse than those on MSNBC, which on most shows are just left-wing echo chambers. Also, Fox hasn't hired anyone quite as disreputable as Al Sharpton.
I've never seen an example of a government regulating the media where the cure hasn't been worse than the disease.
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Ollie North comes to mind......
Derec
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Good one. Hadn't known he had a show on Fox. Ironically, he also hosted a show on MSNBC as well way back before MSNBC rebranded itself as a kind of bizarro-world Fox News.
P.S.: Does that mean you agree with me that Sharpton is a disreputable character?
Sue them for false advertising. They're neither fair nor balanced.
arkirk
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Ha ha! And when it gets to the Super Duper Supreme Court, they will set us straight. Alito, Thomas, Roberts and the rest will give us "justice." That's NOT ADVERTISING...IT'S SOP! No pubic hairs will be found on their soft drink cans. Money is speech. Corporations are simply multigenerational PEOPLE. Our future is in OIL. There is a rumor that Ann Coulter is actually Luke Skywalker's mother. The federal courts no longer serve the people and it is doubtful they ever did.
Shadowy Man
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I ignore it, but it's still there.
One thing that might help is to actually make it a law to knowingly lie in your news reports. Right now it's only an FCC guideline, a fact that FOX has used in a court of law to defend firing employees who won't lie.
Arctish
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We should do this regardless of what effect it might have on Fox News.
How is that not fraud? If their product is news, then why is deliberately misrepresenting their product not an act of fraud?
Arctish
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We Americans have allowed out news programs to become info-tainment, where entertainment is more important than information, and opinion is presented as fact.
Canadian law prohibits the broadcasting of "false or misleading news" by radio and television outlets. I hope someday we Americans follow your lead on this, and separate the opinion and entertainment sideshows from the actual news.
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Yup, fully agree. The way we get news/information has evolved a lot over the ages. Who is to say that today it is any worse than decades or centuries past? Personally, I like the fact that I can get news and opinions from all over the world so easily.
Yea, this is what I had in mind when I mentioned regulation.
When I watch Canadian news the only complaint I have is that it's often irrelevant, when I watch American news my complaint is that it's like a side-show, and usually with a pretty strong agenda, which as far as I can tell is actually a significant contributor to holding back political progress in the country.
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It's meant to be. But don't let anybody kid you about Canadian news. Sure it's regulated... it's also beholden to the federal government. Lots of bias goes unnoticed.
Remember when the Israelis attacked that Turkish aid ship to Palestine? CBC kept showing, over and over, the video clip doctored by the Israelis, uncritically; never raised the question of legitimacy, and was never taken to task for it. Same applies to coverage of the G8 debacle. Anything that has political implications at federal level gets the kid glove treatment. But Sideshow Rob can be served for breakfast lunch and dinner.
As for FOX, leave it alone. It's got to choke on its own bile eventually. Meanwhile, The Daily Show needs daily grist, and that's where (besides internet forums and the first five minutes of who shot whom in Detroit) I get my US news.
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Invade their offices, kill their executives, and convert them to atheism, perhaps?