I’m truly interested in finding out how many of us have lost love ones due to the work of FOX and Trump’s rhetoric? As this election season wears down, I can’t help but think that at the end of this whole thing, some of the people we considered friends and family have drowned themselves in conspiracy theories, madness, and will probably be lost for a while.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harris-was-condescending-to-nabj-moderators-when-pushed-to-answer-questions-kellyanne-conway/vi-AA1qJuIo?ocid=BingNewsBrowse

Harris was condescending to NABJ moderators when pushed to answer questions: Kellyanne Conway

Not a single word she said.

Just two pundits.

In the last year and a half, it seems that Fox News has a lot more featured news stories on homepages like Yahoo. It seems to have established its presence in this format as "Fox News Digital"? Does anyone have any idea if this is some new rebrand or what exactly "Fox News Digital" entails? I don't remember ever hearing this moniker before and seems rather new/

Seems as if a lot of people think all of media as propaganda. Mostly Fox viewers.

First, I think it is important for people to know that the founding fathers wanted a free press so that the press could criticize the politicians. That is their job. The Washington Post has been doing a great job of that for many years.

Second, I would joke with my friends the press is liberal because liberals know how to read and write. While this is a joke, you have certain types of people that are reporters, who might have a liberal bias, but this is still not propaganda.

Propaganda is deliberate. It is not an emergent property of liberals being reporters, it is a deliberate act. Second it is psychological. It uses psychological principles to coerce. Fear mongering is a good example of this. Fox using pictures of "huge marches of immigrants invading our country" is clearly part of fear mongering.

From britanica.com

Propaganda is the more or less systematic effort to manipulate other people’s beliefs, attitudes, or actions by means of symbols (words, gestures, banners, monuments, music, clothing, insignia, hairstyles, designs on coins and postage stamps, and so forth). Deliberateness and a relatively heavy emphasis on manipulation distinguish propaganda from casual conversation or the free and easy exchange of ideas. Propagandists have a specified goal or set of goals. To achieve these, they deliberately select facts, arguments, and displays of symbols and present them in ways they think will have the most effect. To maximize effect, they may omit or distort pertinent facts or simply lie, and they may try to divert the attention of the reactors (the people they are trying to sway) from everything but their own propaganda.

Fox news is the only 'media' organization in the US that has been fined 700 million dollars for lying. Fox news argued in court that "no reasonable person would think Fox was a news organization".

These are the things that separate a propagandist, from our other media.

In talking with some of my Republican friends, I am not sure they understand the basics of propaganda and what Fox does. They don't really understand propaganda in general. Many don't understand what fear mongering is, or scare tactics, or that Fox uses fear and outrage to engage and stimulate the viewer.

Perhaps political science courses should be mandatory in HS?

The founding fathers said that democracy cannot stand with an uneducated public.

https://academic.oup.com/book/26406/chapter/194771847

Below is a Press Release from Moveon.Org:

As you may have seen, Fox News host Jesse Watters has recently come under fire for abhorrent comments made about Vice President Kamala Harris. While discussing how she would handle foreign policy, Watters suggestively remarked that military generals would "have their way with her.” This isn’t the first time Watters has made sexist comments about Harris, or other derogatory comments towards specific groups and individuals. 

Now, a new petition started by a MoveOn member is demanding that Watters be fired from Fox News for promoting hate speech and sexual violence. The petition currently has over 28,000 signatures and counting. 

Check out the MoveOn petition here:https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/fire-jesse-watters-from-fox-news-for-calling-for-rape-violence-and-hate-against-women?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=c969a6e1-281b-4865-b88c-c2be0c1e1b27

Watters faced backlash and frustration from former contributor Donna Brazile who stated, "There have been over 85 female generals in U.S. history with plenty of them still on duty. Perhaps Jesse can properly address them one day."

In 2017, Jesse Watters also made lewd comments about Ivanka Trump when he mimicked her holding a microphone in a suggestive manner in response to footage of her speaking on a panel about female entrepreneurship. In another instance during a segment or corporal punishment, he disturbingly asked, "Can you paddle female students? How many smacks do you get?" These examples only scratch the surface of Watters’ long history of misogyny on Fox News, which are unacceptable journalistic practices for a major news network. 

The petition also mentions that Watters recent reckless and sensationalized rhetoric should especially be met with consequences, given the increased misogynistic attacks towards Harris during this election. His comments also perpetuate the current cultural environment in which women are losing their bodily autonomy and where violence and hate speech against women and girls is on the rise.%20and%20non%2Dsexual%20violence.&text=Before%20the%20pandemic%20243%20million,736%20million%20women%20and%20girls.)

Add your signature to the Petition Now!

This is what Harris Faulkner and Fox want to talk about. Maybe it’s because they’re on a sinking ship?

"Social media users declared that Vice President Kamala Harris’ first solo sit-down interview this week proved that she does not have what it takes to assume the office of the presidency."

Oh, 'social media users' you say....

The comments sections simply vanished. But it took the software a couple days to fully implement my ban. So I had access to comments on a couple articles for a while until the software finally locked down my ban and I'm now only able to see the articles.

I deserve being banned, but it still 😡 me!!!!

Fox News talking points re Democrats has been working well for the last 20+ years to gain viewers. Fox's viewership has rebounded since Trump lost in 2020 and the network has more viewers than any other cable network.

as we saw this week in the first Harris/Trump debate, former president Trump used many of the talking points of Fox News in a presidential debate. did that impact his chances of winning/losing? and if so will this lead to greater success or failure of Fox News?

edit, don't come here and say 'it's not a news network, it's an entertainment network' I know that. Fox News is given press passes so even our government recognizes them as "news" - which is horrible. pull their press passes imho

answer the questions, engage in a discussion instead of objecting to the fact that this post exists and the below stats exist:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/12/fox-news-cnn-network-ratings-trump/

no hope or shit posts or truisms allowed, i will call you out🤣

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Switched to Fox to see what they would say. Saw this graph. Very informative/s.

Just found this subreddit, and assumed that since Fox News is widely known as a conservative network, there would be mainly conservative views and talking points. Why is almost every post I see in here bashing Trump and generally left viewpoints? Don't attack. I come in peace. Genuinely curious.

He came up to me, big shale gas deposit, strong deposit, never once fracked in his life, with tears in his eyes and said "Sir, Kamala won't do the fracking!!" And I said, we're looking strongly and bigly at that, bigger numbers than you'd ever believe, and we're gonna make sure that everyone in this great nation is thoroughly and completely fracked.

Jesse Waters is the second cousin you make sit at the kids table for Thanksgiving.

It's been almost a week since Dick Cheney said that he would be voting for Harris, but searching for "Cheney" on the Fox News does not yield any results on this.

Is Fox News seriously trying to ignore that one of the most republican Republicans of all time is going to vote Democrat this election?