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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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Antipolitico

“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.
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61 posted on 04/05/2022 7:04:12 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Project onto others what you yourself are doing.

Put Fox News on the defensive in order to take the spotlight off of the LAAP-dog media.

This is a psyops operation intended to weaken Fox News before the full story on the Biden's comes out.

The LAAP-dog media doesn't want the Fox News version of the Biden Crime Family corruption to be the dominant narrative, so they are attempting to poison the well now.

-PJ

62 posted on 04/05/2022 7:08:38 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: JonPreston
Tucker buried his show and his favorite guest, Lindsey Graham.

Yep, what a hoot, funnier than SNL.

63 posted on 04/05/2022 7:12:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Fox News, the president feels, is “one of the most destructive forces in the United States,” as the reporters put it.

The only thing that Ol' ShizzPantz feels is his Huggies filling up every few hours...

64 posted on 04/05/2022 7:44:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Fox News …fair and balanced…not really. Clearly Fox News is slanted if not biased to conservative viewpoints. However, it is a counterbalance to the left, far left and government sponsored propaganda that passes for journalism in all the other major news outlets. So far I have yet to find any more or less middle ground news reporting service where actual unbiased journalism is practiced.


65 posted on 04/05/2022 7:51:50 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Travis McGee

” . . . a variety of sources — CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, the Times, The Post . . .”
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This has to be the most humorous line in the article. A “variety of sources?” Really? In fact, it is only one source, the DNC, relayed through “various” captive media outlets.


66 posted on 04/05/2022 9:02:45 AM PDT by JGPhila
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Among Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, a variety of sources — CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, the Times, The Post…

Hilarious how they couch these as diverse…

67 posted on 04/05/2022 9:05:41 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: srmanuel

Aside from Carlson FNC is CNN with red, white and blue chyron and a T&A show. FNC is reading from the same book as the rest of the so-called media, except they are about three chapters behind. Their news division is every bit as embarrassing as CNN’s or PMSNBC’s. The only time I will turn it on is if there is breaking news, otherwise my wife and I don’t watch the news anymore, we read or research online.


68 posted on 04/05/2022 9:20:09 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Bratch

Yes, you just posted the exact same thing I did on post #44.

So, what is your comment


69 posted on 04/05/2022 9:39:36 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Travis McGee

It is exactly like every other socialist regime. No one is allowed to question the official socialist narrative.


70 posted on 04/05/2022 9:58:36 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
President Biden views Rupert Murdoch, founder of Fox News, as “the most dangerous man in the world.”

Sure, Murdoch got FNC to say Biden won Arizona when the results were still unclear. Murdoch made Biden president. That makes Murdoch very dangerous indeed.

71 posted on 04/05/2022 10:03:17 AM PDT by x
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Deplorables won’t eat our sh t!....whaaaa!”


72 posted on 04/05/2022 10:08:39 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
My post was meant to make your post easier to read.

As to my comment...


73 posted on 04/05/2022 12:59:49 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I laugh when people tell me fox news is conservative. They are as left as they come.


74 posted on 04/05/2022 5:47:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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