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The unique, damaging role Fox News plays in American media
Washington Post ^ | Apr 4, 2022 | Philip Bump

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.

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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Don’t ignore that Fox News, LIKEWISE, buried the Hunter Laptop story.


21 posted on 04/05/2022 4:34:32 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Joe works to diminish US credibility around the world as the world looks to the US for leadership.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Tucker Carlson is the only reporter in the world who takes an independent view of Ukraine/Russia and he is enemy #1 as far as the FakeNewsMSM/globalists are concerned.

as critical as we can all be about Hannity at times, there is no other MSM reporter who delved into Russiagate as deeply as he did... with a team that included John Solomon, Sarah Carter etc.

Laura Ingraham is the only reporter in the MSM worldwide who brought together a credible covid medical cabinet - Risch, McCullough, Bhattacharya, Malone et al.

kudos to all three.

bury the FakeNewsMSM, and that includes much of Fox and Murdoch media elsewhere.


22 posted on 04/05/2022 4:35:04 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: octex

Local news is mostly all liberal. At least they cover crime.


23 posted on 04/05/2022 4:35:11 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: JonPreston

I can’t take 4 minutes
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For sure.

He has on commie guests, they make a counter point to him and he doesn’t rebut it. He actually gives them a platform and most often he isn’t intelligent enough to debate them coherently if at all.


24 posted on 04/05/2022 4:39:28 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What difference does it make how many sources Democrats get their news from if those sources are all singing the same song?


25 posted on 04/05/2022 4:41:15 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Both The WaPo and Biden are intellectual powerhouses steeped in goodness and honesty.

We should trust them and only them for our vision of Truth, Justice and the American Way.

26 posted on 04/05/2022 4:45:25 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Enjoy your radioactive roots and berries!)
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To: FreedomForce

Listen to the Mockingbird...media, that is.


27 posted on 04/05/2022 4:47:48 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Enjoy your radioactive roots and berries!)
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To: MAGAthon

“with a team that included John Solomon, Sarah Carter etc.”

John Solomon has his own 6 pm EST show for 1 hour on Real America’s Voice, same channel as Bannon’s Warroom. The Solomon show is excellent and he frequently breaks news that has not been heard yet.


28 posted on 04/05/2022 4:57:28 AM PDT by Antipolitico
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

WaPo wants us to believe it’s not news unless Biden approves of it. LOL


29 posted on 04/05/2022 4:59:24 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: plangent

There are four elements that make CNN News a uniquely damaging part of the American news landscape: its strength on the political LEFT, the demonstrated way in which it shapes its viewers’ beliefs, its grip on DEMOCRATS power and the views of its leadership.

There, fixed it


30 posted on 04/05/2022 5:09:14 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s “damaging” that there is any alternative at all to our Leftist corporate groupthink. Nobody should be allowed to question our propaganda ever.


31 posted on 04/05/2022 5:10:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Two idiots talking over each other.


32 posted on 04/05/2022 5:11:28 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Dangerous to the left; not to America, however.


33 posted on 04/05/2022 5:19:13 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Romans Nine

Yeah, but did you know he concealed carries and is a martial arts master?


34 posted on 04/05/2022 5:24:51 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“...but now confirmed and with a sense of scale”
Translation - Joe gave us the word to take down Fox.


35 posted on 04/05/2022 5:33:25 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Has the WaPo investigated Hunter’s computer yet?


36 posted on 04/05/2022 5:44:29 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s the Bump still blathering


37 posted on 04/05/2022 5:48:54 AM PDT by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Oh, Philip Bump, retard.


38 posted on 04/05/2022 5:48:54 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

maybe they should also look at which of these “news” outlets told us for years that “Russia Collusion” was real, that hundreds if not thousands of various “hate crimes” were real, that Trump was “literally Hitler”, that gays only wanted the right to be married, that there were “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, the Covington Kids were “racists”, that the riots of 2020 were “mostly peaceful”, that January 6th was an “insurrection”, and that’s just a very short list of their lies.

I know, FOX was also in on some of these as well, particularly the WMD hype, but CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, the Times, The Post, were and continue to be up to their eyeballs in these lies.


39 posted on 04/05/2022 5:49:17 AM PDT by euram
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To: MAGAthon

Agreed....FOX News primetime is our saviour. Watters and Gutfeld, too.

I do believe, however, I could recreate a Hannity radio show(TV too, probably) from past monologues and segments on each and every issue and no one would notice that it was “previously recorded”. Every friggn’ time I pop in I know what speech is coming——word for word. ‘we’re like a newspaper with reporting, opinion, blah, blah...

or , he knows what its like to be poor with all his various jobs, washing dishes, hanging wall paper, ....

or ‘here’s how Joe could stop inflation; restart Keystone, open Alaskan oil ....

or ‘I’m a conservative. I believe in abcdefghi and j......’

or ‘I practice martial arts every day and could knock you out in a second

Sean desperately needs some new thoughts. We’ve heard it all before.


40 posted on 04/05/2022 5:55:16 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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