Never mind Kansas. What's the matter with Fox News? ugly, dishonest immigration coverage by hosts li

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Fox News has issues, starting with its obnoxious and dishonest immigration coverage


https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/28/fox-news-hosts-insensitive-immigrant-children-coverage-raises-questions-carlson-ingraham-column/738874002/

Ruben Navarrette, Opinion columnist Published 5:00 a.m. ET June 28, 2018 | Updated 7:38 a.m. ET June 28, 2018

Fox News is my preferred network. But it's testing me with ugly, dishonest immigration coverage by hosts like Tucker Carlson and guests like Ann Coulter.



SAN DIEGO — Never mind Kansas. What’s the matter with Fox News?

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The nation’s leading cable news network has its share of issues. They include a ratings-driven obsession with race, ethnicity, and national origin — the kinds of things that opportunists gather and light like kindling to draw attention. They also include ham-fisted, dishonest and cringe-inducing treatment of anything related to the immigration debate, much of which has throughout U.S. history been fueled by “-isms”: racism, nativism, ethnocentrism.


Fox hosts and guests are obnoxious

Since the border crisis began several weeks ago, Fox News hosts and commentators have repeatedly come across as glib, obnoxious, and insensitive.

►“Fox and Friends” Host Brian Kilmeadenoted that, while the refugees may be suffering, at least “these aren't our kids.”

►Fox News Commentator Corey Lewandowski responded to a story about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who had been taken from her mother and put in a cage by saying: “Womp, womp.”

►Fox News Host Laura Ingraham likened the harrowing experience of children being separated from their parents and detained in facilities to “summer camps" or "boarding schools.”

►Frequent Fox News guest Ann Coulter expressed skepticism about the entire story and likened the children who had been stripped of their parents to “child actors.”

►Last but not least, there is Fox News Host Tucker Carlson who insisted the border crisis wasn’t about families at all but rather an attempt by elites to “change your country forever.”

Carlson is the ringmaster of this circus. He can’t stop pushing the hot buttons of race, ethnicity, immigration, culture, and language. It is why he has been accused — by people like MSNBC Host Joy Reid — of promoting white nationalism.

He recently asked why Americans don’t view Mexico with the same distrust we view Russia. After all, he said, Russia is not invading our country and flooding it with crime and drugs.

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Fox News’ spasm of ugliness has been noticed by Hollywood. ..................................................................

What does Fox News stand for these days?

Recently, Carlson tweeted: “More & more it feels like racial division is the subtext of everything. Topics that seem totally unrelated to ethnicity are suddenly racially fraught. The effect is a deeply angry, divided & terrified country. How long do we have to live this way? How did we get here? #Tucker.”

Seriously? How did we get here? Dear #Tucker, you and your buddies at Fox News need to look in the #mirror.

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1. This guy watches Fox News and he's just 'getting it' now?

They've been blowing the fear/hate dog whistles like a damn klaxon for decades. Not to mention the overt deceptions and falsehoods. Where can we get more of these 'wake up' pills? There's a huge zombified viewing audience that's been hoodwinked.

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3. He is a late bloomer!!!

Link to tweet

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5. I don't see ANY change in Fox News since it started. Fox isn't "testing" you, your conscience is.

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2. Fux news IS what's the matter with Kansas (etc etc etc.)

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4. Fox news is the national enquirer of broadcast cable news, all in a ...

desperate scramble for ratings and hence, higher ratings = more ad revenue.

What's really sad about this whole thing is that Fox is making the news instead of just reporting on it. Far from being an objective, non-biased reporter of the facts.

Some local stations are fox affiliated, but they are no way like the national fox news (I guess on cable only)(Carlson, Ann C. etc.). The local fox news station in St. Louis MO, is nothing like the national version of fox news.

I actually like the local fox news station here in St. Louis MO, w/ the exception of one thing, that their broadcasts are not CC'ed (closed captioned).