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In reply to the discussion: Important to remember that Fox News is reporting the Comey story completely differently [View all]Moostache
(11,201 posts)61. There are 300 million people in America...
Fox
2.4 million viewers in primetime
(less than 1% of the population)
MSNBC
averaged 1.4 million in primetime
(less than 1/2 of 1% of the population)
CNN
averaging 778,000 in primetime.
(approximately 1/4 of 1% of the population)
The problem is not Fox News as much as social media and the way Fox News stories and propaganda is the lingua franca of the conservative bubble. What is started on Fox News is propagated through endless hours of hate radio and then regurgitated in prayer meetings, Lion's club, Rotissary meetings, chamber of commerce meetings and on and on and on.
There was much derision and chortling, even among some Democrats, when Hillary Clinton called out the "vast Right Wing conspiracy against my husband" as far back as 1992...it's only gotten exponentially worse since then.
Without a return of the Fairness Doctrine for mass media and especially local radio programming, this will not change. There truly ARE two Americas now...one is based in reality and rational thought, the other is based on lies, propaganda and ignorance of the truth. I remember a quote, though not the source, that was profound on this..."There are none so blind as they who refuse to open their eyes." We have a large swath of America that is hypnotized and controlled by nefarious means...they "think" they are in the know, that they are not being deceived or lied to or controlled....they "believe" that their news is unbiased, fair, balanced...they "know" that 'leftists are loons' and the liberal homosexual agenda is promote filthy anti-god hedonism.
Many are simply too far gone to bother with...they are best cordoned off from society and allowed to wither and die off (which their GOP masters are all too happy to help them do without benefit of even palliative care or hospice when they find themselves with no money, no insurance and no options). But to the ones who can be turned, the time is now. This spin of the Comey firing is as if in 1973, CBS and NBC were reporting on Watergate and ABC was spinning the '72 election results as a mandate still.
2.4 million viewers in primetime
(less than 1% of the population)
MSNBC
averaged 1.4 million in primetime
(less than 1/2 of 1% of the population)
CNN
averaging 778,000 in primetime.
(approximately 1/4 of 1% of the population)
The problem is not Fox News as much as social media and the way Fox News stories and propaganda is the lingua franca of the conservative bubble. What is started on Fox News is propagated through endless hours of hate radio and then regurgitated in prayer meetings, Lion's club, Rotissary meetings, chamber of commerce meetings and on and on and on.
There was much derision and chortling, even among some Democrats, when Hillary Clinton called out the "vast Right Wing conspiracy against my husband" as far back as 1992...it's only gotten exponentially worse since then.
Without a return of the Fairness Doctrine for mass media and especially local radio programming, this will not change. There truly ARE two Americas now...one is based in reality and rational thought, the other is based on lies, propaganda and ignorance of the truth. I remember a quote, though not the source, that was profound on this..."There are none so blind as they who refuse to open their eyes." We have a large swath of America that is hypnotized and controlled by nefarious means...they "think" they are in the know, that they are not being deceived or lied to or controlled....they "believe" that their news is unbiased, fair, balanced...they "know" that 'leftists are loons' and the liberal homosexual agenda is promote filthy anti-god hedonism.
Many are simply too far gone to bother with...they are best cordoned off from society and allowed to wither and die off (which their GOP masters are all too happy to help them do without benefit of even palliative care or hospice when they find themselves with no money, no insurance and no options). But to the ones who can be turned, the time is now. This spin of the Comey firing is as if in 1973, CBS and NBC were reporting on Watergate and ABC was spinning the '72 election results as a mandate still.
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Important to remember that Fox News is reporting the Comey story completely differently [View all]
oberliner
May 2017
OP
I ask them to change stations too. In 200, when I first visited a heart hospital, they had a TV in a
Jim Beard
May 2017
#89
I don't think Fox matters on Russia. CNN has flipped. And see this on Nixon in 1974
sharedvalues
May 2017
#7
Fox has actually had some reasonable coverage of this, from very unlikely sources.
thesquanderer
May 2017
#62
The anti Vietman "Secret Plan" vote lives today. There is little hope of changing the "old dogs"
Jim Beard
May 2017
#92
You don't have to reach ALL the nutjobs. 25%, of the 60m who voted for Trump, would do, which if
OnDoutside
May 2017
#20
Is it likely that 100% of the 60m Rep voters only watch Fox and RW radio ? Many do, but I
OnDoutside
May 2017
#82
When indictments, convictions & impeachments come, Fox viewers will be the most shocked on Earth. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#25
Exactly. My late best friend was SHOCKED and not in a "Casablanca" way when Romney lost.
WinkyDink
May 2017
#88
FOX listeners are used to being mushroomed, they are kept in the dark and fed bullshit, they
Thinkingabout
May 2017
#33
fox is an arm of the Republican party, fox and friends has groomed trump for years.
Sunlei
May 2017
#36
Fox is a propaganda network. There is nothing to reason with regarding intentional misinformation.
still_one
May 2017
#41
Fox is very, very good at being the propaganda arm of the Republican Party.
Still In Wisconsin
May 2017
#45
It is like looking into a parallel dimension where up is down and down is up.
Mr. Sparkle
May 2017
#50
That pales in comparison to the importance to the destruction tRumpsters are inflicting.
ffr
May 2017
#52
There is NO "one small point that maybe can be a source of agreement." Suggest one.
WinkyDink
May 2017
#87
Maybe, but I can't be bothered (they could also reply, "Still too good for him!" And then I'm mad.).
WinkyDink
May 2017
#105