Although Fox News isn’t anywhere as bad as the likes of CNN, MSNBC etc., Fox is still part of the problem. When push comes to shove, Fox cannot provide meaningful resistance to the fascists.
Fox tries to be the place where conservative viewers can pretend that their opinions count. A giant pacifier.
And what is that problem, really? Search "Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death" for a clue.
Preview: When trying to be most serious,responsible and vital, the mass media is most dangerous. Television relies on holding viewers interest over a period of time. And it is known what works to accomplish that.
The agendas and ideologies are much less important than what they do to to garner eyeballs.
And what they do is not a deep and complete examination of ANYTHING. It is pretty much titillation - in various forms.
One thing that Postman did not foresee (IIRC) was the rise of the Internet. While, it has some of the same faults as television, at least there is the availability of deeper and more complete discussions of solid information. (So far.)
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Here is a snip from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
The essential premise of the book, which Postman extends to the rest of his argument(s), is that "form excludes the content," that is, a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas. Thus rational argument, integral to print typography, is militated against by the medium of television for the aforesaid reason. Owing to this shortcoming, politics and religion are diluted, and "news of the day" becomes a packaged commodity. Television de-emphasises the quality of information in favour of satisfying the far-reaching needs of entertainment, by which information is encumbered and to which it is subordinate.