FOX News should not be treated as a "News" organization.

[kentuck]

In my opinion, it is a mistake to do so.

They are a propaganda tool of Trump and Putin and are an enemy of America.

They should be treated as such.

We will never fix the problems of this country so long as FOX is spreading their propaganda and conspiracy theories across our airwaves.

It has nothing to do with "free speech" or "freedom of the press" or the "media".

They are the biggest obstacle to the Democratic Party and the will of the people, in my opinion.

[uponit7771]

1. THIS !!! They are hand tight with the GQP and the DNC has no counter to this.

[Passages]

2. They didn't pay 787 million because they adhere to codes of honesty in reporting.

Thank the Telecom Act 1996 though...that is where this concentration of media became possible.

[dlk]

3. Fox has admitted, in court, they are not a news organization

We should take them at their word.

[onenote]

28. Urban myth

One that is regularly reported here on DU.

It’s not true.

[Silent Type]

4. I don't think it would make much difference if FOX disappeared tomorrow. It is typically quoted they have a few million

viewers, maybe more for some shows and less for other, maybe during the day viewer come and go and it's really 10 Million. But, that ain't many when there are roughly 160 Million who actually vote.

In other words, I think the last election shows us there are more ignorant/hateful rubes here than I expected and that ain't gonna change because FOX disappears.

[unblock]

5. Correct, with one important distinction:

Foxnews is not Donnie's tool. It's backwards.

Donnie is the tool of the propaganda network of which foxnews has been a dominant player for decades.

Some extreme right-wing billionaires created the propaganda network and created the environment in which someone like Donnie was bound to come along eventually.

People give Donnie himself way too much credit.

[markodochartaigh]

13. Fox "news" is part of the cancer of

authoritarianism which has metastasized through the US body politic. Trump is a symptom of that disease, a pustulent tumor erupting through the skin.

[IA8IT]

6. It's named FOX because it pisses on everything just like actual fox do.

[LoisB]

7. "GOP TV" per Roger Ailes.

[Seeking Serenity]

33. He's dead. Has been for years.

[SocialDemocrat61]

34. Gene Roddenberry died 30 years ago

Yet Star Trek still goes on. Ailes created FAUX. He set the template that they are still following.

[Seeking Serenity]

36. And on, and on, and on. Can we PLEASE let that franchise go?

[SocialDemocrat61]

41. .

[LoisB]

38. Exactly!

[LoisB]

37. Yet his idea for a GOP propaganda television station lives on. I know he's dead.

[MythosMaster]

8. fox news... groomers of

fools.

[maxsolomon]

9. Who shouldn't treat it that way?

Dems? Other "MSM"?

I've never considered it anything else.

[FarPoint]

10. Exactly...it is a propaganda machine...

We just have no boundaries or guidelines to enforce the need to differentiate news from the propaganda. Journalism is almost dead.... it it being ignore what is being put out...

[GreenWave]

11. Other places gave Fox the boot.

[markodochartaigh]

12. It's like treating poison

as a food group.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Restrictions were placed on FOX in the UK. They are not a legitimate "news" network and were recognized as such.

Dammit, why do we woefully lag behind countries that actually care about health and facts? Pisses me off bigtime.

[OMGWTF]

24. Rethuglicans are why we can't have nice things

[Evolve Dammit]

31. yep indeed.

[onenote]

29. Why do we "lag" behind other countries when it comes to speech? Because we have a first amendment

Something that progressives historically have valued.

Also, the claim that the UK placed "restrictions" on FOX is somewhat misleading. Fox voluntarily ended operations in the UK based on a lack of viewership. After it already was no longer available, "OFCOM" -- the UK regulatory agency -- found Fox had violated its "impartiality rules" with respect to certain aspects of its coverage.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-010263624425

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Was talking about universal health care and laws that apply to hate speech that would prohibit much of the crap from RW

"silos."

[WarGamer]

15. Nothing on TV is real news.

Real news is boring and wouldn't draw eyeballs.

TV News is eye/ear candy for low information folks seeking bias confirmation.

[Kaleva]

18. Cable news is talking heads telling people what they want to hear

[Mariana]

16. I agree. Now, how do we persuade their audience to turn that shit off?

[Botany]

17. It is a cancer on body of America

Selling GOP lies and Russian Misinformation
to the willingly stupid. It has killed millions
starting with calling the 2000 Race for President.

[Initech]

23. Fox News is literally a drug.

It's designed to be addictive by nature. Its' addicts can't get enough of it. It has the same properties as the most addictive drugs out there like crack, heroin, and fentanyl. And like the most addictive drugs, getting people off it is extremely difficult.

[Skittles]

19. I have said this for a long time

no reputable person should appear on that POS propaganda network

they are NOT news

they should NOT be treated as such

[Kaleva]

20. No cable news network should be treated as real news

It's for people who don't want to spend the time digesting raw news from several reputable sources and coming to their own conclusions. For them, It a lot easier being told what to think or for those who just want to hear that which enforces their already formed world view

[Initech]

21. I've been calling it a hostile propaganda outlet since 2010!

Seriously, we would be so much better without that wretched fucking network it's not even funny!

[andym]

22. Too bad they can't be forced to call themselves Fox NotNews

A lawsuit with financial penalties would be the only way this could happen.

[live love laugh]

25. OAN is catching up quickly with Fox. The internet is capturing the minds of younger people.

[onecaliberal]

26. K&R

[LearnedHand]

27. Treated by whom?

And for what end? I sort of get what you're saying, but I don't exactly know what someone's not treating them as a news organization will accomplish. And trying to convince the trumpers it's not real news will not accomplish a thing.

[Seeking Serenity]

35. It's fantfic. It's OK

[RainCaster]

30. It should be banished from all defense installations

Every VA hospital, military base, PX...
They preach treason

[yellow dahlia]

40. Agreed.

Is that still going on?

Has the Pentagon not smartened up yet?

[yellow dahlia]

39. Yes. I say the same thing, often.