Foxnutties out of control

[billy.pilgrim]

It only took 25 years for Fox to split the country. We can only hope they don't reach 26.
Die fox die

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 9d41061f44


'“Fox News Channel to stress fairness” read the headline on the July 1996 story the Houston Chronicle published in the run-up to the Oct. 7, 1996, launch of Fox News, under the management of network chief Roger Ailes and News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch."

Little did they know

"part of that “good reason” was perhaps that Hannity himself — in service to Trump, of course — had been laying the groundwork for popular suspicions about election integrity. In early October 2020, for instance, he interviewed Trump and invited him to riff on the topic: “How do we have voter integrity?” Hannity asked, yielding to a predictable Trump rant about voter fraud."

"A week later, he welcomed Trump back for more unopposed extemporizing on this nonexistent scourge. At the end of that month, he interviewed a guest who said Trump would have to win Pennsylvania by four to five points because of voter fraud. Hannity asked, “When you say the president would have to win by four or five in Pennsylvania because of voter fraud, are we talking about Philly?” After the election, Philadelphia would become the state’s No. 1 target of Republicans’ baseless fraud allegations."

"It’s a machine, in other words — promoting lies, and then reporting their traction as national news. That’s what Fox News has done with the vocal plurality of Americans in its corner, 25 years running."

[neoplacebo]

Your Sinclair quote fits well with the business model of Faux News.