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Post by midcan5 on Dec 3, 2021 19:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Dec 13, 2021 8:51:09 GMT -5
Fox and the Murdochs don't care about America, they are not American but use hatred and lies to attract those Americans who hate our diversity and freedoms. Hate brings in audience as most haters are not going to question the source or values of the so called news or opinion. Money talks and hate pays, it is easier than thought. But Wallace leaving is kinda sad as he was a voice of reason on a foreign owned station filled only with hate for our freedoms. 'CNN host blasts Rupert Murdoch for trying to ‘destroy’ America with Fox News' ‘Where do you draw the line? If that line doesn’t exist then you are complicit,’ says John Avlon www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cnn-fox-rupert-murdoch-destroy-america-b1947793.html'Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth' ( for our thinkers) www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53345186-hoax |
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Post by midcan5 on Jan 17, 2022 13:15:11 GMT -5
One wonders who edits Fox and their commentators? Recently one suggested eliminating the FBI (Emma Colton) because of an error in her judgment. "The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party, conservative talk radio show Jesse Kelly tweeted Sunday morning." wrote Colton. As an editor on The Washington Times, a right wing autocracy source, is it any wonder she'd dislikes the FBI? But what do the editors in Fox think of this sort of nonsense? Corporate tools like Emma are un-American. www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Washington_Times |
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Post by midcan5 on Jan 19, 2022 9:04:55 GMT -5
These past few weeks I continue to watch Fox, OAN and Newsmax and find the fake, misleading, or just anti-democracy hype they present as news un-real. Fox now uses Washington Examiner spokespeople. Rev Moon must be proud. For the American who still loves democracy, check out links below and the book. thriveglobal.com/stories/read-an-excerpt-from-how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/this-is-how-democracies-die"Today, however, the guardrails of American democracy are weakening. The erosion of our democratic norms began in the 1980s and 1990s and accelerated in the 2000s. By the time Barack Obama became president, many Republicans, in particular, questioned the legitimacy of their Democratic rivals and had abandoned forbearance for a strategy of winning by any means necessary. Donald Trump may have accelerated this process, but he didn't cause it. The challenges facing American democracy run deeper. The weakening of our democratic norms is rooted in extreme partisan polarization-one that extends beyond policy differences into an existential conflict over race and culture. America's efforts to achieve racial equality as our society grows increasingly diverse have fueled an insidious reaction and intensifying polarization. And if one thing is clear from studying breakdowns throughout history, it's that extreme polarization can kill democracies." "There are, therefore, reasons for alarm. Not only did Americans elect a demagogue in 2016, but we did so at a time when we have come to take for granted: mutual toleration, or the understanding that competing parties accept one another as legitimate rivals, and forbearance, or the idea that politicians should exercise restraint in deploying their institutional prerogatives. These two norms undergirded American democracy for most of the twentieth century. Leaders of the two major parties accepted one another as legitimate and resisted the temptation to use their temporary control of institutions to maximum partisan advantage. Norms of toleration and restraint served as the soft guardrails of American democracy, helping it avoid the kind of partisan fight to the death that has destroyed democracies elsewhere in the world, including Europe in the 1930s and South America in the 1960s and 1970s." |
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Post by midcan5 on Jan 29, 2022 12:22:52 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Feb 18, 2022 19:11:57 GMT -5
Fox lies and lies and then hides. Note they did nor correct their error in another fake Hillary scandal. Murdoch must love Americans are as they still watch and he and family get richer. Fox remains a serious threat to our democratic republic. 'Hillary Clinton On Fox News’ Amplification Of “Spying” Claims: "They’re Getting Awfully Close To Actual Malice In Their Attacks"' deadline.com/2022/02/hillary-clinton-fox-news-actual-malice-1234956245/ |
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Post by midcan5 on Mar 10, 2022 7:45:53 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Apr 6, 2022 18:27:44 GMT -5
As I've noted above I feel Fox is anti American democracy or democratic republic as some prefer calling our national politcal system. What gives? Is the simple fact our president is now a democrat the reason? Is partisanship so strong it is OK if the ship sinks. Really strange. 'Fox News Hosts Entertained Putin-Friendly Talking Points. Then Their Colleagues Were Killed in Ukraine.' www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/fox-news-hosts-putin-ukraine |
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Post by midcan5 on Apr 17, 2022 7:35:12 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on May 28, 2022 6:31:04 GMT -5
A bit dated but helpful in understanding Fox today. "Fear, in fact, is precisely what Ailes is selling: His network has relentlessly hyped phantom menaces like the planned 'terror mosque' near Ground Zero, inspiring Florida pastor Terry Jones to torch the Koran. Privately, Murdoch is as impressed by Ailes' business savvy as he is dismissive of his extremist politics. 'You know Roger is crazy,'' Murdoch recently told a colleague, shaking his head in disbelief. 'He really believes that stuff.' To watch even a day of Fox News – the anger, the bombast, the virulent paranoid streak, the unending appeals to white resentment, the reporting that's held to the same standard of evidence as a late-October attack ad – is to see a refraction of its founder, one of the most skilled and fearsome operatives in the history of the Republican Party...." www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-244652/ |
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Post by midcan5 on Jul 3, 2022 8:20:30 GMT -5
The book linked below is a fascinating and a bizarre read. In a sense it reminds us of how America is changing as money and propaganda divide us. Read it.
"And though Russia does officially have a free market, with mega-corporations floating their record-breaking IPOs on the global stock exchanges, most of the owners are friends of the President. Or else they are oligarchs who officially pledge that everything that belongs to them is also the President's when he needs it: 'All that I have belongs to the state,' says Oleg Deripaska, one of the country's richest men. This isn't a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends."
Peter Pomerantsev, 'Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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Post by midcan5 on Aug 8, 2022 9:36:39 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Sept 20, 2022 7:12:21 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Oct 26, 2022 7:57:16 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Nov 11, 2022 16:08:33 GMT -5
Understand the roots of modern republican conservatism.
'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
"The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20Th Century' Peter Watson - ideas see his other work
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