{"id":32912,"date":"2016-10-16T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32912"},"modified":"2016-10-16T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:50:13","slug":"top-10-things-that-prove-that-fox-news-is-not-a-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32912","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Things That PROVE That Fox News Is NOT A News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month Fox News celebrated its twentieth year of broadcasting blatantly biased propaganda on behalf of Republican partisans. They have reveled in advancing lies and disinformation that has led to unnecessary and illegal wars, economic meltdowns, and a rise in racism and hate crimes.<\/p>\n

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However, there is one thing that they have utterly failed to do: gain credibility as a bona fide news network. Their reporting consistently distorts facts, if it bothers to address them at all. Their anchors mainly serve as props to introduce slanted analyses and shallow guests. And there is more evidence that the network, by design, was never intended to produce honest journalism. What follows are the top ten examples of that evidence proving, once and for all, that Fox News is not now, nor ever was, a news network:<\/p>\n

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  1. Fox frames their pseudo-news segments in the same melodramatic packaging that entertainment outlets use. Like most fiction, it is focused on conflict, scandal, mystery, and hyper-charged emotions including hero worship, fear, and always sex.<\/li>\n
  2. Fox employs flashy graphics and attention-grabbing audio whooshes and gongs to decorate their reports that are presented as “ALERTS”<\/em> regardless of the actual news value.<\/li>\n
  3. Fox\u2019s roster of hosts has more former beauty pageant contestants than journalists. And they aren\u2019t shy about putting their “talent”<\/em> in revealing clothes and camera angles. In fact, they demand it<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. Fox\u2019s obsession with tabloid thrill-fiction like Benghazi, Obama\u2019s birth certificate, and Clinton’s email, is the news equivalent of porn.<\/li>\n
  5. Fox acts as a mouthpiece for the GOP. For instance, Megyn Kelly presented GOP talking points<\/a><\/strong> from a Republican National Committee memo as independently sourced news.<\/li>\n
  6. Several Fox hosts openly support Trump. Sean Hannity endorsed him, turned over hours of his airtime, and appeared in his campaign commercial<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  7. By their own account<\/a><\/strong> Fox regards their news day as the hours between 9:00am to 4:00pm, and 6:00pm to 8:00pm. That’s nine hours. Therefore, the other fifteen hours (the majority) are NOT news. And that presumes that the hours they call “news”<\/em> aren’t also infested with right-wing bias.<\/li>\n
  8. Fox News caters to their audience that is overwhelmingly<\/a><\/strong> white, Republican, conservative, and virulently anti-Obama.<\/li>\n
  9. Fox News PR has been creating and posting<\/a><\/strong> pro-Trump\/anti-Clinton memes on Twitter. There are about three dozen so far.<\/li>\n
  10. Finally, Roger Ailes, the now disgraced sexual harasser and former Fox News CEO, admitted<\/a><\/strong> that the network isn’t news.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
    \n    Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
    \nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    This list could easily be expanded to twenty or thirty or four hundred examples of how Fox News debases journalism. But this collection is a pretty good representation of the perversion that Fox has made of the once respected profession. They dress up their programs like entertainment and market their hosts like celebrities. Then they run stories that stimulate their audience in a manner perfected by daytime soap operas. And by keeping their devotedly right-wing fans engaged with similarly conservative views, Fox has become their source for comforting affirmations disguised as entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last month Fox News celebrated its twentieth year of broadcasting blatantly biased propaganda on behalf of Republican partisans. They have reveled in advancing lies and disinformation that has led to unnecessary and illegal wars, economic meltdowns, and a rise in racism and hate crimes. 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