Fox News is more fragile than you think.

[Swede]

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. Propaganda against democracy in the US in mass media is undermining the pillars of our government.

It must not be allowed to continue to corrupt our country.

[durablend]

2. So you get rid of Fox News

Then the cult goes somewhere else (OAN, Newsmax) and becomes more instringent.

Not saying this isn't an important thing but the lemmings aren't suddenly going to be more enlightened even with them off the map. They don't want to be.

[Traildogbob]

11. With yA

Sat TV dropped OAN, take the biggest guy down in a fight. Their followers run. I not for doing nothing like GQP on guns. Try everything. The country is worth it. Visit VA Hospital or military cemetery on any day, a tell yourself let’s do nothing because…….🤬 we are in a war right here on our ground this time. Against Half the government and 2/3 of its cult all under the guidance of Fux et al. And this time the reason is more obvious than reasons given to so many soldiers that died and are severely disabled in every war since WWII.
Never thought I would see other Major media spin outlets going after the Fux and it’s spin offs, but that is ramping up. Let the cancer spread at and it will consume us all.

[CrackityJones75]

14. Agreed!

This idea that we shouldn’t do something because they will find another avenue is not helpful.

[Mr. Evil]

24. Yes,

make them exhaust more and more time trying to find another avenue until they end up at a dead end facing a brick wall.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. That makes the cult more marginalized and SMALLER. Good thing. Wet blanket much?

[CrackityJones75]

15. +1

[llashram]

25. ++

maybe a troll trying to divert and distract from the truth? Troublesome answer from ...to me...

[llashram]

23. this is not

helpful. Every avenue the trump cultists go down must be barricaded against their mob. Turned back and the leaders and foot soldiers, proud boys-oath keepers-0 percenters must be jailed for a long time for sedition.

[uponit7771]

29. They already *ARE* instrigent watch Pravda ... er uh FAUX NewZ. OAN isn't going to double it

[edhopper]

3. The Murdochs can afford it

Fox News was always a propaganda outlet, not a profit center.
And they get most of their money from the $2 per cable subscriber, they don't need the advertising.

[erronis]

17. Amazing. Fox soaks every cable subscriber $2/month. Even if you don't watch fox.

https://unfoxmycablebox.com/

Fox News makes approximately $1.8 billion per year from hidden subscriber fees–twice as much as CNN and three times as much as MSNBC.1

The network's extra-high fees, which make up most of its revenue, protect Fox News from the advertisers that are quickly abandoning it.2

[hunter]

18. That's a good reason to quit cable or satellite.

And be sure to tell them why.

[DBoon]

28. Maybe various regulatory authorities could do something about this

Implement a content neutral way to ban this practice

[edhopper]

32. But they won't

[jaxexpat]

26. Cable tv in it's current iteration is MOST of the problem.

The scheme by which it's fees are allocated has infected the common sense consumers are supposedly famous for. Infected with the notoriously lackadaisical malaise and resignation mirrored in the programming of which it's constructed. 24/7 "news" is an abomination. Fox is merely that reality's most prominent example.

[hydrolastic]

33. I just want a way to shut off the incessant advertising.

and get rid of the propaganda network.

[uponit7771]

30. +1,

[bucolic_frolic]

4. My opinion Congress must revisit laws on truth, broadcast licenses, public and private

I keep saying it, but fraud is the issue. Fraud is the basis for many crimes, and many laws are written to punish various kinds of fraud, public and private. Embezzlement, product liability to name two. Somehow the private use of cable tv escaped the regulation that public broadcast licenses are held to. Fraud is a public nuisance. It creates profits but it also creates civil strife, and it damages public trust. I think Congress needs to grow a pair and get a grip.

[Jerry2144]

7. need broadcast license equivalents for

Cable/satellite stations. Right now cable-only stations don't need to follow all the same rules as over-the-air. It's why you can hear certain words and see nudity on cable channels but never on KABC, KNBC, or KCBS

[Joinfortmill]

10. Yes. Now.

[llashram]

27. ++

[uponit7771]

31. +1, or at least the industry needs a standard and kick FAUX NewZ out of journalistic circles.

[onenote]

35. Constitution anyone?

The fundamental difference between cable and broadcast is that the former is a subscription service. If broad regulation of content on cable is consistent with the Constitution, then so too would be broad regulation of content on the print media and on the Internet -- including sites like DU.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

36. The 1A seems not to matter to some here, unless it fits their view,

no matter how many times you and others have pointed this out.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Then we better damn do it. NOW.

[H2O Man]

12. Recommended.

Thank you for this.

[KatK]

13. Signed up for https://checkmyads.org! This works! Do it! n/t

[CaptainTruth]

16. Count me in!!!

[Wild blueberry]

19. Just signed up

Would be so satisfying to see Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson slink off.

[TeamProg]

20. I signed up! Sent my first email to Yahoo.

Do it, it will make you feel more pure!

[Lonestarblue]

21. Republicans have also pushed the Fox ethos into mainstream media.

The Washington Post has been far more critical of Biden and Democrats since Sally Buzbee became executive editor. That change has been commented on numerous times by regular readers. Not long ago, they started publishing opinion pieces by Jason Willick, a former Wall Street Journal writer who seems to be auditioning for Fox. Today he has a price equating protests against the Supreme Court to the January 6 attack. His conspiracy theory is that Democrats are pulling off a coup against the Supreme Court. He thinks nonviolent protests are the same as insurrection!

That WaPo published his right-wing conspiracies is discouraging to say the least. The piece was blasted in the comments, but his lies are still put there to support conspiracies about Democrats. If I’m not against publishing alternative views that at least have some basis in fact, but publishing conspiracies is too far for a newspaper I once respected. If I could find a way to still read some of their saner opinion writers like E. J. Dionne, Eugene Robinson, and Jennifer Rubin, I would cancel my subscription.

[Ford_Prefect]

22. Like the majority of GOP members and politicians FOX lies at all times.

IMHO FOX and the GOP should both be burned to the ground, and salt spread over the ashes.

[onenote]

34. Fox News is not particularly fragile

As much as I'd like to see Fox News obliterated, a campaign to reduce advertising on FoxNews.com -- which is all the campaign described in the OP is seeking to do -- isn't much of a threat to Fox or Fox News. I have no problem with folks going after advertising on FoxNews.com, but no one should expect it to have much of an impact on Fox or the Fox News channel.

For the year ending June 30, 2021, FOX Corporation reported total revenues of 12.9 billion dollars. The single biggest generator of revenue was advertising on its broadcast stations and network (nearly 4.1 billion). Second biggest was affiliated fees on its cable networks (around 4 billion). Third biggest was affiliate fees from the broadcast stations (2.4 billion). Advertising on its cable networks was only 1.34 billion, and that's for all of its cable networks, including not just Fox News, but its sports networks, Fox Business Channel, etc. etc. Its also not clear that ad revenue from foxnews. com is even included in that total.

In all likelihood, the revenue from online ad sales probably is a pimple on Fox's swollen butt. It might even be a loss leader. So, as stated, going after fox's online ad sales is a noble cause, Fox isn't so "fragile' that it will cause them any real pain.