{"id":50923,"date":"2021-10-10T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50923"},"modified":"2021-10-10T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:07:09","slug":"fox-news-celebrates-25-years-of-ripping-america-apart-with-propaganda-lies-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50923","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Celebrates 25 Years of Ripping America Apart with Propaganda, Lies, and Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1996 Rupert Murdoch, an immigrant to the United States via England, via Australia (neither of whom would take him back), joined with a professional Republican propagandist, Roger Ailes (who was later fired due to his serial sexual harassment), to launch a cable “news”<\/em> network with the express purpose of advancing ultra-rightist policies and promoting neo-fascist politicians.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-five years later Fox News continues to sow discord and turn the American people against one another. Most recently Fox News has contributed (along with Donald Trump) to the demise of hundreds of thousands of Americans<\/a><\/strong> by dispensing disinformation about the deadly coronavirus. They have fractured democracy by buttressing Trump’s “Big Lie”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged”<\/em> and “Stolen”<\/em> from him. They have defended the domestic terrorism of Trump’s January 6th insurrection<\/a><\/strong>. And they have exacerbated racial hatred<\/a><\/strong> by promulgating the “white replacement theory”<\/em><\/p>\n

Notwithstanding that resume of ill-repute, the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes at Fox and Friends were anxious to honor their employer with platitudes that bore no resemblance to reality. Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy embraced a fairy tale worldview when she gushed that…<\/p>\n

“Don’t you wish you had a dime for every time someone said to you, ‘what would happen to America if we didn’t have Fox News.’ We’d have no alternative information at all. Think about that. Democracy, essentially, would die. Because you can’t have a democracy like that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fox host: Without Fox, there'd be no "alternative information"<\/p>\n

"Don't you wish you had a dime for every time someone said 'what would happen to America if we didn't have Fox News.' We'd have no alternative information at all. Think about that. Democracy, essentially, would die" pic.twitter.com\/wg45q0jW59<\/a><\/p>\n

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n