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Originally Posted by Levianon17
All news outlets are putting out fake news. Fox was at least being honest. All other news outlets should step up to the plate and do the same.
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Originally Posted by Tigbitties38
Fox didn't admit it until they were caught
For 2 years, you believed them and repeated their bull while they were lying.
Your claim every network shows you still believe fox now.
I say you can't prove anything you say. Your common knowledge is not true and you won't even try to prove your lies. You'll just keep lying.
Doesn't it bother you what people think about you and your lies?
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If put out in black and white, yes. All outlets put out "fake news." Except ethical outlets "fake news" are another way of saying a mistake was made. They will put out a retraction when discovered. Also, they do employ fact checkers. News organizations that do their job don't intentionally put out such.
Kinda hard for foxy to say they ain't fake news when they never admitted what they constantly barraged on their viewers was a known lie. Don't strike me as being ethical.
But when people associate nielson numbers as being a metric for non-fake, that makes me laugh.
I've said it before: any extremist is dangerous. Especially one that lies. Alot of people on this site refuse to see that foxy is leans to a far right bearing and is on the bottom side of Factual Reporting. Doesn't matter how many viewers they have. Or we can call them sheeple.
Always remember Dan Rather when someone handed him a news article he read on air that was found to be fake. Though he didn't do the leg work of investigating it, only presenting it, he stepped down from his anchor chair. That was because he possessed something that the current crop of people on air don't have.
Let's be clear, news anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, a script meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism. It's propaganda. It's Orwellian. And it is on a slippery slope towards some of history's most destructive forces. These are the means by which despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.
To those who say this rhetoric is hyperbolic, I submit that attacking the press as honest brokers of information has been one of the constants of this Administration and all those who normalize it. But this is not normal. This is not how the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, that beloved First Amendment, is supposed to operate.
Many of you by now have seen the video mashup of news employees on Sinclair-owned TV stations delivering the same talking points to their viewers. For those who haven't, I have included the link in the comments section below. And a big tip of the Stetson to Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin, who edited the string of video clips into a powerful sequence that puts the dangers of our time into visceral relief.
The faces of the men and women you see delivering this chilling message are befitting those of a hostage video. Maybe some of these local anchors took to it with gusto, but I believe that number is few. That's not why people are drawn to journalism. And maybe you will say that they should have refused or even resigned in protest, but I know that one can grasp in desperation for rationalizations and compromise when one feels their livelihood is at risk. That is the bet that Sinclair and its allies in media and government are betting on - that they can chip away, with small strikes of the chisel, at the bedrock of American democracy. I suspect that the vast majority of the journalists you see in this video want to be in an environment where they can do their jobs, reporting the news fairly, without favor or bias. They need our support.
That is why it is incumbent for Americans of all political persuasions to say this is intolerable. Congress should hold hearings and call the executives of Sinclair to account, but one suspects that is highly unlikely in the current political environment. Will this spur citizens to elect representatives who recognize that this is a clear and present danger? Will enough people be outraged to bombard stations, and advertisors, with letters, phone calls, and tweets to suggest this is unacceptable?
For now, Sinclair is trying to explain away the controversy, and they have a powerful ally in the President. But as we saw with the advertisers bailing en masse from Laura Ingraham's Fox News show after she attacked a Parkland High School student activist in a Tweet, the voice of the people still matters. If enough people speak, they cannot be ignored.
A free and independent press must be part of #WhatUnitesUs
Dan Rather.
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