Using the public's hate for Fox News to remove all Journalism rights in the US continues, as court considers sanctioning for not divulging source

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[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It has been a long road cultivating this hate for Fox News. It started more than 20 years ago. Fox was miles above all other sources in ratings and all the other sources got together and began relentlessly mocking and bullying Fox News. The public was primed for decades with the notion from its competitors, that Fox News was misleading, for not reporting the spin the other news outlets were all colluding with.

It took a very long time and the public still largely wasn't convinced. When Disney bought in to Fox, with a small non-news portion, everything at Fox News changed. You can't risk the mouse's money by reporting in contradiction to the bully news. Their collective attack would be bad for the brand association. So, Fox News became empty fluff, simply repeating the echo chamber of collusion, using the megaphone affect to manipulate the masses into walking off a cliff like lemmings.

Yet, a good straw man to attack is worth its weight in gold to a fake news site profiting on outrage. Now they continue to beat the dead straw horse, even though it will cost them their own journalistic freedoms. They don't care, they stopped doing journalism a decade ago. They profit from pushing state propaganda and mass collecting private data of users who go to their websites for information.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It started more than 20 years ago. Fox was miles above all other sources in ratings and all the other sources got together and began relentlessly mocking and bullying Fox News.

I don't agree with nearly any limits on journalistic freedom here, but let's be realistic. Fox News wasn't targeted because it had "good ratings." It was targeted because it was a blatant cheerleader for the Iraq War and didn't have two shits to give about whether the things it was reporting were even accurate, let alone told the entire story.

[–]Goingoutforawalk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This isn't a fucking Maoist tyranny yet. The idea that we throw out all of the US legal rulings concerning the protections afforded the press is beyond disgusting. Death to tyrants. Dictatorships are criminal enterprises.