NYT - Charles Blow - ...America is being governed by the dimmest of wits on the most unscrupulous of

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networks"....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/opinion/fox-friends-trump.html?hpw&rref=opinion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Horror of Being Governed by ‘Fox &
Friends’

During the early days of the Obama administration, I did a few appearances on “Fox & Friends.”

The conversations were predictably shallow, tilted and exploitive. The hosts had a particular knack for asking the idiotic with chipper earnestness, spewing venom through simpering smiles. There was, I felt, maleficence at work with a pretense of positivity.

I knew well that I was swimming in a shallow intellectual pool, and yet I told myself that I was doing yeoman’s work, doing my small part to try and correct misinformation and to reach those lost in Fox’s fog.

But I soon discovered that the show, and indeed the network, was beyond redemption.


snip - (focuses on how trump is essentially running the country on what he hears each morning - sorry about the paywall issue - this is worth reading.)

[Botany]

1. Fox is a cancer on my country.

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"But I soon discovered that the show, and indeed the network, was beyond redemption."

Trump’s Fox fixation isn’t benign or inconsequential — because, like him, the network has an aversion to the truth.

According to PunditFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times and The Poynter Institute that checks the accuracy of claims made by pundits, of the statements on Fox that have been fact-checked, only 10 percent were rated true, while a full 60 percent were rated either mostly false, false or “pants on fire,” the worst possible rating.

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2. Kick

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3. Fox makes me ill for many reasons

But if I could encapsulate the galling absurdity of it all in one fact, it would be this; They think so highly of Steve Doocy that they gave his idiot son a job straight out of college.

It turns out that being an idiot sycophant has a nepotism benefit.

It's just as well. He probably saved a more deserving graduate/applicant from crashing their career into the iceberg that is FOX news.