Posted on 04/05/2022 3:35:46 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Sometimes news is newsworthy not because it is particularly revelatory but because it confirms something obvious that lacked confirmation or because it provides something broadly understood with a sense of scale. This certainly applies to the revelation — uncovered by the New York Times’s Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns and reported by CNN’s Brian Stelter — that President Biden views Rupert Murdoch, founder of Fox News, as “the most dangerous man in the world.”
Obvious in broad strokes but now confirmed and with a sense of scale.
But this top-line assessment of the face most associated with the right-wing cable network misses an important secondary assessment included in the Martin-Burns reporting. Fox News, the president feels, is “one of the most destructive forces in the United States,” as the reporters put it. This is the more important revelation as it recognizes the breadth of Fox News’s influence even beyond the elder Murdoch.
There are four elements outside of Murdoch that make Fox News a uniquely damaging part of the American news landscape: its strength on the political right, the demonstrated way in which it shapes its viewers’ beliefs, its grip on Republican power and the views of its leadership.
Fox News has a unique partisan power In December, The Washington Post and University of Maryland conducted a national poll that included an assessment of where people get their news about politics and government. Among Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, a variety of sources — CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, the Times, The Post — were identified as a main source of news by at least 3 in 10. Among Republicans, though, only two were: local television and Fox News.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Look no further than the Hunter laptop story where the Dem media buried the story to understand why.
Translation: “We can only build the true socialist utopia when all comrades get the same information from approved govt sources.”
The unique, damaging role The Washington Post plays in American media
Hannity is having Sean Penn on tonight as a guest. I rest my case.
*chortle*
Philip Bump has his panties in a twist. Again.
He’s as bad as Charles Blow.
fta... Among Republicans, though, only two were: local television and Fox News.
So, how does only 2 of 10 (20%) of Pubbies getting their political news from local and Fox News equal this so-called damaging role in US media?
Consider the source of this garbage and toss it in the trash.
The Left’s Core Strategy #1: Scream racism at anything you don’t like or which slows your agenda.
The Left’s Core Strategy #2: Passionately attack Republicans for actions you are undertaking.
The Left’s Core Strategy #3: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. “
The Left’s Core Strategy #4: Repeat.
Fox News has absolutely ZERO influence on my beliefs.
Why Post this garbage?
Don’t forget that Fox recently added Bruce aka Kaitlan Jenner as a paid commentator to the network.
CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Disney, NYT, WaPo all left wing propaganda outlets where anybody to the right of them is a threat to democracy. MSNBC isn’t much better than Infowars. They leave out the influence of Twitter, FB, YouTube deliberately filtered out to satisfy leftist sensibilities. With all of these, it’s Fox that’s the problem in their twisted heads. No deviation from their world view is permitted.
Hard to believe that these people can say these sorts of things with a straight face. Reminds me of the story about how one media personality back in 1972 said that she did not know one person who voted for Nixon (the year of his landslide victory over McGovern).
I don’t like to use the term malarkey but that’s how best describe the article. Brian Stelter. Give me a break.
It’s like the WWE complaining about AEW.
Yeah, the Hunter Biden vacuum on CNN.
The Broockman/Kalla research is particularly suspect, just from the gushingly favorable CNN conclusions and the maliciously framed Fox conclusions. It’s all malarky, as Joe would say, because the key premise is self-evident.
People who watch CNN get a different world view than people who watch Fox. who knew? Its almost like this is the first CNN resurrection salvo to restore a moribund cable channel
Waaa waaaa, it's six against one. It's unfaaaaair. We want no alternative points of view,
Really it's more like dozens of Goliaths vs four Davids if you include OAN and Newsmax and Breitbart although I'm not even sure Fox counts as one of the good guys at this point.
Deep State is still trying to rehabilitate the last, best enemedia asset it burned on Election Night, I see....
Hannity is a low IQ wanna be that thinks we can have peace with communists.
Huh. I guess I need to watch Fox more.
The liberal media “appeal to authority” argument has gotten old.
No one listens to their fake, politicized, “science” any more.
I’d try and keep low IQ’ers away from an audience as much as possible, but Fox and others take the opposite position. He’s in front of a microphone 4 hours a day. I can’t take 4 minutes.
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