Posted on 04/09/2022 2:02:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The problem with Fox “News,” the cable TV channel, isn’t just what it is — it’s also what it isn’t.
It is often a purveyor of propaganda and misinformation. What it’s not is a source of “news” — at least not by any normal definition.
That’s one of the conclusions I drew from a fascinating new study in which arch-conservative Fox TV viewers were paid to watch CNN for a month. The study was performed by a pair of political scientists: David Broockman, who teaches at UC-Berkeley, and Joshua Kalla, who teaches at Yale.
According to Broockman and Kalla, when these Fox viewers watched CNN, they heard about all sorts of things Fox wasn’t telling them.
But the biggest takeaway for me is the realization that Fox viewers aren’t just manipulated and misinformed — they are literally being made ignorant by their consumption habits. Watching Fox, they hear a lot of “news-like” things, but they don’t learn about what’s really happening.
And here’s where we in the mainstream media can do something useful: We can stop talking about Fox like it’s a different form of news — and start talking about how it isn’t news at all. It’s the opposite of news. It’s instead of news. It’s the absence of news.
You could certainly argue that corporate news does its own kind of coverage filtering. There are all sorts of things the corporate media decides not to cover that independent journalists do, like poverty, mass incarceration, U.S.-caused civilian casualties, how the Washington agenda is skewed by money, and these days, pretty much anything that is good news for Biden.
But mainstream media still bases its reports on evidence, not on whim. It doesn’t hide key elements of an ongoing story, under any circumstance. Fox cannot say the same.
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Yeah, and that like saying NBC, etc. isn’t “news” either huh, NBC Idiots?!?!
Neither is NBC.
No Hunter Biden laptop?
Mao Stream Media has diareah of the brain.
The people at NBC are either putting us on with that piece, or they’re living in a completely different/alternate universe.
But, I understand that brainwashing can affect people, just like the people of ISIS and Al-Qaeda are convinced that their understanding of good and evil is completely different from a normal world.
When you live in the alternate universe of the liberals of NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/MSNBC, the normal world is alien to them.
You’re much more likely to get the truth from Fox News than you are from NBC, CNN, MSNBC, ...
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“The study was performed by a pair of political scientists: David Broockman, who teaches at UC-Berkeley, and Joshua Kalla, who teaches at Yale”
Well at least it was an unbiased study. /s/
SMH
If we had common sense Licensing, Registration and Regulations on “Commercial Speech” using High Capacity Transmission Devices, presstitutes like this from the Fakest of Fake News could be Criminally Prosecuted for using High Capacity Transmission devices to spread their Lies and Propaganda.
Sour, very sour grapes
NBC - the “news network” that faked Chevrolet truck explosions. Yeah, we’re going to believe that collection of lowly journalism majors.
Fox is pulling back the toilet paper and exposing the excrement.
NBC Propaganda Opinion is just projecting again.
“CNN for a month. The study was performed by a pair of political scientists: David Broockman, who teaches at UC-Berkeley, and Joshua Kalla, who teaches at Yale.”
LOL!
5.56mm
Smug much? Granted Fox’s mission is to make old people scared and angry, but to speak from an alphabet network like it’s the canon of truth is hubris XL.
90% correct.
NBC covers all the important news, Russian Collusion, Jusse Smollet, Covington Kids, and of course, RACISM, RACISM, RACISM.
Schools funded by Soros
https://www.educationviews.org/schools-funded-soros/
George Soros: Media Mogul Top Journalists that Serve on Soros-Funded Boards
https://i-uv.com/george-soros-media-mogul-top-journalists-that-serve-on-soros-funded-boards/
Soros-funded Poynter blacklists ‘unreliable’ conservative publications
https://www.worldtribune.com/soros-funded-poynter-blacklists-unreliable-conservative-publications/
They have been saying this nonsense for over 20 years. They can’t stomach that there is a major conservative news station...that is not even that conservative itself any longer.
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