- 05 Jul 2017 22:20
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Fox News is not news, any more than right-wing talk radio is news. Together, they represent the propaganda wing of corporate and Republican interests. They are utterly corrupt in that regard, and somewhere down the line, both will have to go. Their very purpose is anti-American, in spite of the faux patriotism they blather.
Many people who would at one time thoughtfully discuss politics and consider different points of view now just regurgitate whatever Fox tells them. Hillary is a crook, Trump is a savior, trade is bad, crime is rampant, Christians are under relentless attack and on and on.
In my opinion Fox has ended any hope for reasoned political discourse in this country and it will eventually be seen as the beginning of the end for our republic and truly representative government.
There have been multiple studies over decades showing that people whose primary news source is Fox News are the most misinformed (Not "un", but "mis" informed.) people in the country. It is safe to assume that their purpose is to misinform.
I'll leave the mechanics of Fox's future demise for another time, but go it must. More than any other single factor, Fox News is destroying our democratic republic.
Many people who would at one time thoughtfully discuss politics and consider different points of view now just regurgitate whatever Fox tells them. Hillary is a crook, Trump is a savior, trade is bad, crime is rampant, Christians are under relentless attack and on and on.
In my opinion Fox has ended any hope for reasoned political discourse in this country and it will eventually be seen as the beginning of the end for our republic and truly representative government.
There have been multiple studies over decades showing that people whose primary news source is Fox News are the most misinformed (Not "un", but "mis" informed.) people in the country. It is safe to assume that their purpose is to misinform.
I'll leave the mechanics of Fox's future demise for another time, but go it must. More than any other single factor, Fox News is destroying our democratic republic.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897