Do you trust the media?

[SalesServiceGuy]

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No that honor would go to Mad Cow Madow

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... Tucker Carlson, the most popular right wing TV entertainer in the USA, has the measurably larger audience, so he remains the bullsh!t king!

Unlike Tucker Carlson, Rachel Maddow's lawyers have never claimed her shows are performance art to escape law suits launched against her. Rachel often has senior political, medical and judicial officials on her TV show and always asks those quests after their intro if she has got anything wrong. Those same guests almost always compliment Rachel on how well and how accurately she has described the topic.

[Phil B.]

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Really??? Now Cruz, the biggest trump cuck, is a RINO??
This guy is so far up donny boy's ass they will need to perform surgery to remove him.
It's kinda funny how quick you are to throw people under the bus.

I have been against Cruz since he talked shit about Trump in campaign mode.

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[Phil B.]

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... Tucker Carlson, the most popular right wing TV entertainer in the USA, has the measurably larger audience, so he remains the bullsh!t king!

Unlike Tucker Carlson, Rachel Maddow's lawyers have never claimed her shows are performance art to escape law suits launched against her. Rachel often has senior political, medical and judicial officials on her TV show and always asks those quests after their intro if she has got anything wrong. Those same guests almost always compliment Rachel on how well and how accurately she has described the topic.

She lies like a rug.
In fact she is still calling Rittenhouse a murderer. Even after he has been cleared.
Same with Joy Reid and she just lost her time slot.

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[Copier Addict]

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I have been against Cruz since he talked shit about Trump in campaign mode.

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So you do have some loyalty. How do you feel about trump pushing the covid vaccines and the booster shot? Did you hear him get booed during his recent rally? The people there didn't seem to appreciate him.

[slimslob]

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CNN reporter attempts to fact-check conservative colleague, but it goes horribly wrong: 'Got jack to say' - TheBlaze

[slimslob]

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A little banter between the anchor and the weatherman.

"Jackass!" - Weatherman GOES OFF on Virginia Governor Northam

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Jesse Watters says the thing about Fox News that they’re not supposed to say


Jesse Watters’s career at Fox News blossomed when he started doing man-on-the-street segments that usually ran during Bill O’Reilly’s prime-time opinion show. Called “Watters’ World,” the bits were generally the sort of anti-Democrat shtick that often makes it on-air at the network. Before regularly appearing on camera, he was the producer responsible for a series of interviews in which presumed opponents of the political right were confronted in public by a camera and a microphone.

Watters’s most infamous segment involved his heading to New York City’s Chinatown in late 2016, purportedly because China had been the focus of discussion during a presidential debate. This was the result.

“Watters’ World” is a weekly show, airing on Saturdays, and Watters is a co-host of Fox News’s daily opinion show “The Five.” The network relies on a distinction between opinion and news programming that it uses to differentiate the programming that viewers are presumably meant to treat as subjective versus objective, but that’s less of a wall than a chain-link fence. It increasingly seems like Fox’s subtle news offerings are meant to serve the way a splash of strawberry extract might benefit some corn-syrup-based concoction you buy at the corner store: contains real juice!

But Watters and his colleagues understand what the network is actually doing, as he made clear during Monday afternoon’s program. Watters was riffing about what “the Squad” would want from President Biden, suggesting the group had a misleading litany of demands that he equated to an abusive relationship.

“Do I feel sorry for Joe Biden? No!” Watters then said. “I work at Fox! I want to see disarray on the left! It’s good for America! It’s good for our ratings!”

You are welcome to debate whether disarray on the political left is good for America. But it is clearly the case that such disarray keeps Fox News viewers engaged, helping ratings, and that as a Fox News employee, Watters is aware of and supporting that connection.

The admission reminded me most immediately of an interview the CEO of the further-right network Newsmax gave to the New Yorker shortly after the 2020 election. Chris Ruddy was asked why he allowed misinformation about voter fraud to be broadcast on his network without first vetting it for accuracy.

“Well, I think before we even make the claim, we should say, ‘Hey, look at this anomaly. Why is this the case?’ And we start asking about it,” Ruddy said. “But you know what? At the end of the day, it’s great for news. The news cycle is red-hot, and Newsmax is getting 1 million people per minute, according to Nielsen, tuning into Newsmax TV. I think it’s good.”

He works at Newsmax! He’s happy to air disinformation about the left! It’s good for his ratings!

Again, no one should be under any misconceptions about who Watters is and what he does. He is very much at Fox News to do what he suggests he’s doing, giving primacy to the political right as viewers demand. His co-hosts understood that, laughing along with his assertion or, in the case of co-host Greg Gutfeld, nodding along knowingly. The problem is that the line between subjective and objective that Fox News relies upon so heavily is not itself a distinction that many viewers draw.

Last year, Fox News’s attorneys famously defended opinion host Tucker Carlson by noting that the “tenor” of his show should make clear to viewers that he wasn’t “stating actual facts” but, instead, engaging in “nonliteral commentary.” This is the defense, manifested: This is opinion and viewers should know the difference.

But they don’t. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan asked a number of Trump supporters how they felt about the attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6 of last year. Several told him that they didn’t think that the violence was a function of supporters of Donald Trump but, instead, of agitation by the left or encouragement by members of the FBI. Where’d that latter claim come from? Almost certainly from Fox, from Carlson, who promoted it loudly and repeatedly to his millions of viewers. They did not understand that Carlson’s direct, unfounded insistences that the FBI had pushed rioters to storm the building was “nonliteral commentary” that had been “exaggerated.”

There is a reason that Republicans who watch Fox News are more likely to believe false things about that riot and the 2020 election. There’s a reason that, even among Republicans, Fox News consumers are 19 points more likely to say that there’s solid evidence of voter fraud (which there isn’t) and 22 points more likely to say that Biden’s election was illegitimate. Either that’s because they choose to consume Fox News because they’re prone to those beliefs or because Fox News has done nothing to dissuade them from believing those things.

It’s important to remember that Fox News has a unique position within the media environment. It sits at a very lucrative nexus: enough of a legacy as a news organization to warrant comparison to CNN and MSNBC combined with a viewership that’s very focused on one side of the political spectrum.

Fox's ongoing ratings dominance is intertwined with both of those things: that older people, who tend to be more conservative, are more avid cable news watchers; and that, without robust competition from other right-wing networks, Fox News has a near-monopoly within that group.

Fox News does do good work. It does have objective reporters and reporting, and it has a top-tier polling shop. It’s also clear that what Watters articulated is the essence of the network’s success and the core of its strategy: amplify where the left is faltering to give viewers what they tuned in for.

But then there’s the next step that Watters and others on the network regularly take. Disarray, too, can be objective or subjective. And it’s often the case that the network’s hosts amplify situations with the intent of conveying a level of disarray and malfeasance that doesn’t exist — as Watters was in the middle of doing during his riff Monday.

That’s the line between influence and propaganda.

[Phil B.]

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a series of interviews in which presumed opponents of the political right were confronted in public by a camera and a microphone.





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You are welcome to debate whether disarray on the political left is good for America. But it is clearly the case that such disarray keeps Fox News viewers engaged, helping ratings, and that as a Fox News employee, Watters is aware of and supporting that connection.

The admission reminded me most immediately of an interview the CEO of the further-right network Newsmax gave to the New Yorker shortly after the 2020 election. Chris Ruddy was asked why he allowed misinformation about voter fraud to be broadcast on his network without first vetting it for accuracy.






defendedopinionaskedfrom Fox, from Carlsonmore likely to believewrote last month, its ongoing ratings dominance is intertwined with both of those things: that older people, who tend to be more conservative, are more avid cable news watchers; and that, without robust competition from other right-wing networks, Fox News has a near-monopoly within that group.

Source of info?

Vox again?

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[SalesServiceGuy]

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Source of info?

Vox again?

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... if you are really interested, highlight and right click the article, and search!

[Phil B.]

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Audio debunks viral claim 'falsely smearing' Neil Gorsuch over transcription error - TheBlaze

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CNN’s 4th Quarter Primetime Viewership Collapses 73% to Just 642K - Truth Press

[Phil B.]

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Rut Roo

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[Phil B.]

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Rut Roo

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Damn that's lower ratings than Scoobie Do reruns!

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[slimslob]

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'''Rachel Maddow Show''' worried Madison Cawthorn might ask to come on show if they asked him for comment: Email | Fox News

[Phil B.]

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... if you are really interested, highlight and right click the article, and search!

Oh but y'all demand that we provide a link when we post.
If you know how to do it, why don't you follow your own suggestions?

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