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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was forced to watch Fox yesterday, and Hannety was talking about the campus protests (which everyone at Fox thinks is the end of America) and at the end of a sentence he casually slips in "now that looks like a real insurrection doesn't it." And immediately changed the subject.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's intentional, they're trying to dilute the meaning so next week he can say, "So both sides have insurrections from time to time, many more took place under Biden than Trump."

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

Yeah it was so transparent and stupid that I laughed.

Also, everyone on Fox is so ANGRY at everything. It's ridiculous.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fucking ridiculous. We need to start teaching media literacy in schools.

Rule number one is: Journalists should not be influencing your opinion. A statement like that from someone claiming to be a journalist should wipe everything they just said from serious consideration.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They get around it by not classifying their talking heads as journalist when they get heat on them.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. We need better rules about identifying news vs opinions and entertainment.

Sure they can say that in court, but their audiences don’t hear that.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We used to have those rules. A certain group of people got rid of them.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

Along with rules that required fair coverage of both sides of an issue.