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skip fox

(19,502 posts)
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 01:11 PM Feb 2023

Fox is swinging for the bleechers. Media Buzz didn't even mention Dominion or its own lying hosts!

Fox seems no longer worried about credibility.

The story about Dominion's lawsuit and the discovery (in the legal sense) of e-mails between hosts and management showing there was no basis for casting doubt on the 2020 election and then directly lying to their audience was the biggest media story of the past week yet Howard Kurtz, who presents himself as a quasi-objective Fox host, didn't even mention it.

Thus Fox executives, who are now running all of the news side of the operation, made the calculating that disclosing even the possibility their hosts lied (thereby treating their viewers with contempt) would hurt the station even more than ignoring it (thereby squaring the contempt). After all their polls tell them that only a small percent of their viewers will listen to other news sources, and a large percent of these are evidence-free mentalities.

So now they're even more obvious. So what?

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Fox is swinging for the bleechers. Media Buzz didn't even mention Dominion or its own lying hosts! (Original Post) skip fox Feb 2023 OP
This is why any resolution of the Dominion case needs to include Ocelot II Feb 2023 #1
Fox also needs to keep repeating that the elections are safe and fair. lindysalsagal Feb 2023 #2
Nice double meaning of bleachers central scrutinizer Feb 2023 #3
Nice. Wish I could say it was intentional. skip fox Feb 2023 #4
Who needs credibility when you're the leader of a bloodthristy cult? Initech Feb 2023 #5
(sarcasm) Their election fraud lies are "newsworthy"... MissMillie Feb 2023 #6

Ocelot II

(130,533 posts)
1. This is why any resolution of the Dominion case needs to include
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 01:20 PM
Feb 2023

an on-air acknowledgement, repeated by all the Fox talking heads who repeated the lie, that they did lie when they claimed the election was stolen and the Dominion machines were part of the plot; that they knew they were lying and they did it to satisfy and keep their viewers so they wouldn't lose market share and money to OAN and Newsmax. Otherwise Fox' viewers will never know the truth. Maybe they won't believe it anyhow but at least they'll hear it.

central scrutinizer

(12,654 posts)
3. Nice double meaning of bleachers
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 01:25 PM
Feb 2023

Their audience drank bleach, took ivermectin, and shoved a bright light up their butt to fight Covid

Initech

(108,782 posts)
5. Who needs credibility when you're the leader of a bloodthristy cult?
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 02:14 PM
Feb 2023

Cult leaders don't need any credibility when people hang on their every word.

MissMillie

(39,652 posts)
6. (sarcasm) Their election fraud lies are "newsworthy"...
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 02:27 PM
Feb 2023

... their being caught spreading what they knew to be lies isn't newsworthy (/sarcasm)

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