What to do with Fox news?

[Tom Sawyer]

Invade their offices, kill their executives, and convert them to atheism, perhaps?

Can we just skip the "convert them to atheism" part?

 

[pegasus8]

The pathetic reality of the "Fox Effect," is that their audience actually believes the crap they pass on as news!

One has got to admit that Rupert's Henchman, that fat slob Roger Alies, knows what he is doing. Notice how Fox uses some innovative techniques in their "alternative universe " of reality in presenting their version of the news in an "entertainment format." The sounds, the graphics, those constant "accidental" splicing of fake stuff, the famous "ticker" below, etc., are all deployed in many different layers of a modern day "thought control." The advertisement industry has been doing this for years. And I understand that Fox's won a legal battle to report news that is not true in the American courts a few years back. Fox's tricky ricky word games are world famous along with its outright lies that are reported as fact. Yet what is amazing IMO is that all the older retired white folks swallow this propaganda as being the patriotic truth as apple pie and Old Glory.

Let us hope that Faux News brought to us by all the fake people, the Foxholes, will stay around. We have a whole industry that follows Fox Noise so we do not have to!!!! So the more outlandish the lie reported as fact the more piling up of the ratings and money in the alternative universe of Faux News.

For all you people who dislike progressive pursuits and ideologies I actually like people like Shepard Smith and a few others on Faux News. But how people like Hannity, aka Klannity and Bill'O keep making shit up day in and day out can boggle the mind and make ones head spin like a top.

Peace out

Pegasus

And remember Fox is fair and balanced. You know like " Romney in a landslide," or that "Chief Justice Roberts will vote down the ACA!" Fox Noise did not invent the "bubble head bleach blonde," they just perfected her. And remember oh fatso Roger has a no pants rule in effect for all of us guys and stuff!

Oh yeh please forgive me. BENGHAZI!!!!!

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Here's an idea. There are three major news networks; CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews. One of them is moderately "left", one of them very much so, and one of them is "right." That means FoxNews has a monopoly on "right wing" news.

So here's the solution - break up the monopoly. Divide FoxNews into two stations that compete with each other, one more moderate to oppose CNN and one more radical to oppose MSNBC.


Disclaimer - it should go without saying (but I will need to say it anyway) that I don't actually back this proposal.

 

[rousseau]

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.

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.

Yea I'm definitely under no illusion that Canadian news is impartial, but as a matter of degrees it does seem a lot better than American news. That said ... I don't consume news from any major outlet, and instead usually rely on message boards and word of mouth from trusted sources.

 

[Underseer]

Of course you freedom-hating liberals want to get rid of FOX News! Goodness forbid someone actually tell the truth! [/conservolibertarian]

 

[Elixir]

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.

Or as abysmally stupid as Star Jones...

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Of course you freedom-hating liberals want to get rid of FOX News! Goodness forbid someone actually tell the truth!

Now we've heard from an actual FoxNews viewer. Underseer feels threatened by this thread.