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OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:39 PM Oct 2019

Fox seems to be testing the waters of ditching Trump.

I refuse to give them clicks so I'm hearing it from people who have gone to their site, but apparently there are lots of anti-Trump headlines on their front page now. I've seen 3 anti-Trump articles posted by them, and some anti-Trump articles by other right-wing rags like Washington Examiner.

Paul Ryan's plan to turn Fox against Trump seems to be starting. But, some of the comments are Fox viewers claiming Fox has turned liberal and now they need to change to Breitbart, so I'm not sure how long Fox will test this theory before returning to Trump worship.

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Midnight Writer

(21,740 posts)
1. My experience is that the headlines I see as anti-Trump, MAGAs see as pro-Trump.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:48 PM
Oct 2019

Kids in cages like factory chickens, taking away health insurance, hating on the gay. brutalizing minorities?

Hell, that's what they voted for.

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
6. Not those kinds of headlines.
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 12:09 AM
Oct 2019

Fox is showing their 51% poll in support of impeachment and removal. An article about a soldier who for the first time regrets serving in the military after what Trump did with Turkey. Trump's Ukraine scandal.

Those kinds of headlines.

Johnny2X2X

(19,030 posts)
12. Wrong, FOX is still 100% all in on Trump
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 07:07 AM
Oct 2019

Those aren’t headlines at all on FOX. It’s all pro Trump still. A FOX News correspondent tweeted a story about a soldier feeling ashamed, it never made it to their website of TV channel. The impeachment poll headline is blunted.

FOX News headlines right now are about Joe Biden and Ukraine. And how Hillary will run now because Joe Biden will drop out because of the Ukraine scandal.

They aren’t even talking about the Kurds at all.

People keep posting this because FOX lets a few seconds here or there of criticism of Trump so they can pretend to be fair and balanced.

FOX has never been more pro Trump.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
2. I've had this disturbing vision of Trump TV starting and Fox being treated as centrist, thus...
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:51 PM
Oct 2019

...dragging the Overton Window even further to the right.

Silver1

(721 posts)
3. Same on another rw site
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:55 PM
Oct 2019

I've noticed the same on another poplar right wing site. I don't trust it, but it is very different than what they usually up to.

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
7. I just assumed anymore to the right of Fox
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 12:10 AM
Oct 2019

would just be speeches by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels on a loop.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
8. Go ahead-- give 'em a few clicks. Beats hearsay. But, it makes sense...
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 12:51 AM
Oct 2019

Unlike Breitbart and its clones, there are a few actual journalists over at Fox who have actual contacts and get actual background.

And the new management at Fox seems to look more toward the future, which will be sans Trump, one way or another. It will probably be sans Carlson and Hannity some day, too.

So, celebrate the rats leaving the sinking ship. They're still rats, but the smart ones.

Liberty Belle

(9,533 posts)
10. It wouldn't hurt to leave positive comments, since they are likely getting lots of negative ones.
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 02:27 AM
Oct 2019

Carrot and stick approach.

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