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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.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just so you know, we don't approve of FOX News. They stole our name.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know, right? They hardly ever show anything that foxes need to know.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Like how to scare sheep. Do foxes actually even scare sheep? I find that a bit dubious.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

Who we? Foxes?

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dingdingdidingdingdignding

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I watched that music video too.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I thought it would be fun to make that reference

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was watching the ABC news live reporting after the student phone live streams at UCLA ended and was surprised by how neutral and genuinely interested in the situation the woman doing the reporting seemed.

She was reading out all the signs they made verbatim and not in like a making fun kinda way but more trying to show why these people were here and that they are real humans with diverse backgrounds.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the Fox says something racist in the second panel.

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

The Fox is upset bc of the sooper special word it cannot say since, say... the 60s.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

It says something unintelligible about master locks.