Fox News Is Cancerous. I Won't Be A Part Of It. - by Zac Petkanas

[DonViejo]

by Zac Petkanas | Oct 30th, 2018, 12:54 pm

I can no longer in good conscience appear on Fox News as one of its regular liberal talking heads, especially after the recent acts of right-wing violence.

This is not a decision I’ve come to lightly. For a long time, I believed it was important for Fox’s audience to hear somebody willing to push back against the insanity regularly pushed on the network. But now I believe the only thing to do is walk away and call out the network for what it is: a cancerous propaganda organ doing lasting damage to our country.

My change in thinking began after witnessing how the network handled my on-air interaction with former Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski. He infamously mocked the plight of a ten-year-old girl with Down Syndrome forcibly separated from her mother at the border. Our exchange went viral immediately and played on a loop on CNN, MSNBC, late night talk shows and social media feeds across the country. But on Fox News there was a virtual blackout of the incident except for a very sympathetic segment the next day where Lewandowski was given the opportunity to clarify himself.

Most people saw Lewandowski’s remarks as succinctly capturing the inhumanity of the Trump Administration’s family separation policy. Fox News saw them as inconvenient.

This is ultimately the problem. Fox’s producers and on-air talent don’t view themselves simply as part of a conservative-leaning news outlet that responsibly approaches policy discussions about tax cuts and health care from a right-of-center perspective. They see themselves as political operatives whose job it is to help the Republican Party acquire and keep power.

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[zipplewrath]

1. NOW he figures this out?

What the heck took so long.

[choie]

2. waiting for the checks to clear..

[allgood33]

3. Murdock and FOX will be going down very soon. Count on it. Sponsors pull out, pay check cut.

Bank on it! Once their sponsors start to be boycotted and begin to pull out BIGLY they will become history!