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Nevilledog

(51,209 posts) Tue Jan 25, 2022, 02:51 PM Jan 2022

"I went on parental leave. Three months later, Fox is still killing its viewers."

Link to tweet

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/i-went-parental-leave-three-months-later-fox-still-killing-its-viewers

COVID-19 killed roughly 130,000 Americans during my parental leave, which began in mid-October. With the omicron wave cresting as I returned on Monday, the seven-day rolling average exceeded 2,000 deaths a day. Those deaths are largely preventable: Death rates are staggeringly higher among those who have not taken the safe, free, remarkably effective vaccines against the virus that have been widely available to most people for months.

Vaccination could have been a unifying effort for the nation in which we came together to protect ourselves and each other from a pandemic that had already taken too many lives. But when I left, Fox News’ prime-time hosts were waging a nighty assault against the campaign to get Americans vaccinated. I’ve been doing this for too long to expect the network’s coverage to become more responsible in the interim. And it hasn’t. But the moral depravity of Fox’s effort to sabotage the vaccination campaign still takes my breath away. As the U.S. death toll approaches 900,000, the network’s most popular figures continue to use their influence to talk their viewers out of taking the shots that could save their lives.

The drumbeat continues, as Fox’s most powerful and influential figures sabotage the vaccination campaign and successfully dissuade their viewers from taking the shots that could save their lives.

Tucker Carlson, who is both the face of Fox and its most powerful force in shaping right-wing discourse and Republican politics, opened Monday’s show by promoting Sunday’s rally against vaccine mandates in Washington, D.C., which featured virulent speeches from notorious anti-vaxxers.

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