Why is Fox News Allowed To Spread Falsehoods? Seriously, where is the FCC?

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66. And we shall know the talking heads and sea-lions by their fruit

I think it goes on because so many damned people want news much as they want religion or politics: a salad bar of easily digestible bits of trivial gossip, lacking context, we can then repeat at dinner parties to better maintain a respectable level of obligatory but annoying engagement in things.

Somewhere along the line, the different hosts from the different channels became commercially-branded celebrities in their own right, and from an outsider view, the amount of baited and breathless gossip about the hosts themselves often seems to be afforded greater discussion than the issue at hand. The objective, even boring messengers made themselves into the colorful, dramatic message. It's a good sell for commercial buys, I guess.