Fox News During the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Awful Even by Fox News Standards
accurately sums up the network -
The Trump-boosting minimization of the novel coronavirus pandemic may well be a new low for Fox News—but it’s also a logical extension of the network’s decades-long war on objective reality.
Ever since Fox News launched in 1996, the network has labored to construct its own closed epistemic system, underpinned by a variety of questionable “facts” and baseline assumptions that validate right-wing viewpoints while demonizing liberal values. The point is to prop up right-wing politicians by training its viewers to hate, fear, and distrust anyone who leans even the slightest bit left. Critical to the success of this initiative has been the discrediting of traditional authorities, such as mainstream journalists and academic scholars, that traditionally take a more liberal view on the world. Since Trump became president, this reflexive anti-intellectualism has redoubled as the network has engaged in an all-out campaign to support and bolster Trump by discrediting his many enemies. Who are Trump’s enemies? Anyone who contradicts, criticizes, or disagrees with him, for one thing; anyone who insists on citing objective, observable facts to challenge the president’s narcissistic, narrative-driven worldview.Seen through that lens, the network’s subpar coverage of the coronavirus is just another example of Fox doing what it does best: carrying water for a dangerously unqualified president by encouraging their viewers to believe that Trump’s personal grievances are and should be their own.
ah yes Fake News.
ReplyDeleteLike Catallaxy is anti-intellectual to its core and never lets facts get in the way of a story.
It is no wonder they praise the greatest idiot ever in the Whitehouse whose last fortnight has been an embarrassment. gosh he even knows more about the disease than the specialists.
Yes Graeme,
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That sounds a bit better Homer. The church is the new Israel. Now don't listen to everything the Jew says. If Jesus had listened to everything the Jew said there would be no Christian church.
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ReplyDeleteChristians are the real jews.
modern day Jews neither believe in original sin nor they need god to get to Heaven. I