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Initech

(100,104 posts)
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 12:32 AM Feb 2018

We have got to do something about Fox News.

They have been a problem before but not like this. When Sean Hannity is caught direct messaging Julian Assange, then talking to an audience of one - Trump - they have officially ceased being a news network. They are now a hostile intelligence agency, and they clearly don't have America's best interests at hand. They gave us George Bush, they destroyed Obama, and now they're giving Trump his marching orders.

But the question is what can be done? Can anything be done? We have a hostile intelligence agency operating on our own soil calling itself a news network, whose clear intentions are not American and they only seek to further divide us. We need to address this problem in the next two elections.

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We have got to do something about Fox News. (Original Post) Initech Feb 2018 OP
For starters Turbineguy Feb 2018 #1
Sean Hannity for one! Initech Feb 2018 #2
Open war with the rest of the MSM? ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #3
That might boomerang exboyfil Feb 2018 #4
My problem is with not standing up to the bullies ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #12
it's a cancer on democracy spanone Feb 2018 #5
Put an DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #6
Uh . . . . . cuz da cable. Stinky The Clown Feb 2018 #8
Fox's viewership is like the Republican Party: old, white, and dying off Spider Jerusalem Feb 2018 #7
Their demo numbers are higher than other networks Azathoth Feb 2018 #10
Barely higher, for 25-54, the average age of Fox viewers is 68 Spider Jerusalem Feb 2018 #11
Sadly, this is true. n/t Different Drummer Feb 2018 #16
Obama was destroyed? How the Hell did I miss that? WillowTree Feb 2018 #9
Initiate dialogue with an IRL neighbor. greyl Feb 2018 #13
They were never a news network. Bluepinky Feb 2018 #14
Watch it and rebut the lies oberliner Feb 2018 #15
I've got a monster sized set of bolt cutters. Somebody point me at their "cable" and I'll snip it. NightWatcher Feb 2018 #17

Turbineguy

(37,369 posts)
1. For starters
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 12:35 AM
Feb 2018

there are some people working at Fox who need to register under FARA regulations as foreign agents.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. Open war with the rest of the MSM?
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 12:41 AM
Feb 2018

Like a ten minute segment on all the major networks where they list all the bad things Faux has done that day.

You know why the other networks won't stand up against them? It's because Faux is a bully like Donnie, and the other networks are afraid to battle Faux one on one. However, if all the networks banded together and supported each other it could work.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
12. My problem is with not standing up to the bullies
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 03:22 AM
Feb 2018

The WH and Faux control the RW narrative. If the MSM stood up en masse to deny that narrative, maybe it would have an effect. It doesn't have to be a ten minute segment. It could be just calling them out for what they are: liars. I don't see that as ganging up.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
7. Fox's viewership is like the Republican Party: old, white, and dying off
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 01:38 AM
Feb 2018

they won't be a problem for long, because their model isn't going to be viable for too much longer.

Azathoth

(4,611 posts)
10. Their demo numbers are higher than other networks
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 03:09 AM
Feb 2018

We have to stop deluding ourselves into thinking Fox and the rest of conservative entertainment are only speaking to octogenarian nursing home residents. There is an entire new generation of conservatives who consume that stuff and who are even more radical than their predecessors.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
11. Barely higher, for 25-54, the average age of Fox viewers is 68
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 03:20 AM
Feb 2018

and 80% of their audience is older than 54.

greyl

(22,990 posts)
13. Initiate dialogue with an IRL neighbor.
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 03:24 AM
Feb 2018

Identify the Fox and Friends(et al.) viewers and make an impression on them.

Now.

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