Will the Masses Finally See Fox News for What It Is?

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Less than one week after New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer published a thoroughly reported exposé about Fox News, its former president resigned suddenly from his top White House job. Bill Shine, President Trump’s communications chief and his deputy chief of staff, will reportedly now put his energy and time into getting the network’s top viewer elected to a second term. One wonders, then, why he isn’t just going back to his old job.

They certainly could use the help. With ratings reportedly suffering since the Democrats housed the GOP in the midterms last November, Mayer’s report broke three key pieces of bad news for fans of Fox: the late network president Roger Ailes allegedly fed Donald Trump questions in August of 2015 before his infamous debate exchange with Megyn Kelly; FoxNews.com allegedly buried the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 presidential election because the network’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, wanted Trump to win; and during his presidency, Trump reportedly pressured the Department of Justice to block the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner as a slight to CNN (and a boon to Fox). The first two incidents describe blatant hypocrisies and journalistic improprieties. The third item sounds like an impeachable offense on the part of the president.

In adding detail about the genesis of both Fox News and its symbiosis with Trump, Mayer offers a clear picture of how the network and this White House have exploited American misconceptions and resentments, all of which endanger the fundamental notions of a functional democracy. Through the network’s undue influence on Trump, it perpetuates cruel and harmful policy every day that he stays in the White House. Fox has created a monster, and by working in tandem, both the network and the president whom it sponsors are now significant threats to the overall health of the republic.

Think, for a moment, what Fox News has become. It used to simply be a forum for Republican apologia. It was the dream of Roger Ailes, the former network president and erstwhile Richard Nixon aide to create the television news buffer that his old boss never had during the Watergate scandal. Who knows whether Nixon might have weathered covering up a break-in and provoking a Constitutional crisis, to say nothing of having a criminal for a vice-president, had his administration had a 24/7 television defender.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fox-news-trump-new-yorker-805485/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Short answer is NO.

Germany and Italy learned through WarFare about the Right Wing Press. Now both tend to have a very open Press.

Look at the Demographics of the Fake Noise influence,and in that lies what Education can solve. The Fake Noise Virus can only be cured by Sunlight and Exposure to the Truth.

[D_Master81]

2. IMO

Most people probably have already made their mind up about Faux News. You have the die hards that think they're the only ones telling the truth and massive amounts of people that just tune it out. At least they admitted who they are when they dumped the "fair and balanced" BS.

[wasupaloopa]

3. No. My brother-in-law came to visit our mother-in-law.

He turned the tv to faux news.

He watches like trump does.

He also watches reality shows like junk yard wars or some such shit.

[CDerekGo]

4. To be honest

Mass-Market Television has not been the same for decades. With the 'reality' shows dominating tv schedules, and what seems to be 100's of channels competing for viewers attention, it's almost as if anything being broadcast is meant to be viewed by those of the lowest of low IQ levels. Not that much was ever more than basic intelligence all along, but I can remember watching Walter Cronkite as a kid. Fair and Balanced reporting.

Now with the 'reality' tv president, look what we as a Nation have sunk to.

[onenote]

5. The "masses" don't pay that much attention to Fox News.

How many viewers do you think they have compared to the combined audience of the other news outlets (ABC,NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC etc etc).

[VOX]

6. The basic Fox News excreta foments an addictive combo of fear and outrage.

Dim-bulb viewers derive a stress-hormone head-rush out of being told (repeatedly) that evil, ungodly democratic socialism (gasp!) will destroy everything. And that multi-cultural demographics will “destroy history.”

They’ve completely abandoned any critical-reasoning (assuming they possessed such an ability in the first place), They prefer instead to be entertained by the destructive buffoonery as performed by the nihilistic DJT.