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ashredux

(2,606 posts)
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 05:13 PM Jun 2020

I've been watching Fox News a bit this afternoon...

I am always curious as to how they present some of the news that is current. I came away with the impression that there is a slow, very slow, turning at Fox.

There are just some things even fox cannot support that President Trump has either said or done. I get the feeling it’s like a slow boil. Even Fox can see which way the wind is blowing and they are adjusting, slowly turning the knob, bit by bit on the oven.

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malaise

(269,054 posts)
1. For the record Fox is as guilty as the Con and his enablers re Covid-19
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 05:15 PM
Jun 2020

In fact Fox is one of the main enablers.
People will go to prison over Covid-19 but I'd prefer if the Con was infected.

ashredux

(2,606 posts)
3. You are correct.... it's the boys That are taking over and I do feel a very slight shift....
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 05:48 PM
Jun 2020

They want a life after Trump

doc03

(35,346 posts)
2. I had breakfast with a bunch of Trumpians this
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 05:18 PM
Jun 2020

morning they were saying Fox is getting as bad as CNN.
They call CNN the Comunist News Network. I kept my mouth shut us Democrats were out numbered 10 to 2.
There will be plenty of time to torture them after January 2021.

tavernier

(12,392 posts)
4. Did you lose a bet??
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:06 PM
Jun 2020

I think I would have found an excuse.
“ Sorry, woke up with a severe cough and a 300° temperature. Rain check till January.“

tavernier

(12,392 posts)
14. My granddaughter goes to Mount St. Joseph U. in Cincinnati.
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 03:45 PM
Jun 2020

Almost all the kids she hangs out with in school are Democrats. Sorry to hear you’re stuck in BFE.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Tail wagging the dog or...both? Fox's business model from the beginning
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:11 PM
Jun 2020

was always to find out what its demo wanted to hear and feed it back. This model was outstandingly successful of course, and they very quickly started using what their viewers wanted to hear as a vehicle for what they wanted them to believe.

Frankly, I believe the people at Fox are so completely corrupt and unprincipled and so routinely betray everything they claim to support that I believe there's nothing they couldn't do, only what the upper echelons decide is in their cabal's interest. It's all about winning, growing RW power, and toward that end they will continue to feed their viewers' beliefs back to keep them on the leash.

jayfish

(10,039 posts)
6. I Turned It There A Little Bit Ago To See...
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:12 PM
Jun 2020

how they were covering the new Russia scandal. They were going on breathlessly about some explosion in Iran. Keeping their eyes on the ball.

Yeehah

(4,588 posts)
7. They are fascist propagandists
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:18 PM
Jun 2020

and occasionally apply a thin veneer of objectivity.

They will never "turn" from what they are.

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