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There may be a free press, but when the majority of the (US) public gets it’s news from Fox, it doesn’t matter.

Nearly $800 million settlement over the lies they pushed about election fraud and nary a peep on their own network about their misdeeds.




It's not the free or lack of free press that's the problem. Fox's audience wants to be lied to, and there are countless people in the US and elsewhere that are honestly just done thinking about the complexity of the world. No free press can break through that.


"Eveyone that disagrees with me is stupid and easily manipulated, not smart like me"

I think alot of people watch Fox because its currently the only news channel that provides coverage of poor Democrat behaviour. That doesnt mean they agree with everything that is said.


Fox is not a news channel. The vast majority of both of their content (TV and web) is editorial / opinion / entertainment.

Not sure why we're even talking about them in the context of OP which is more around "town billboard" news accumulators like social media.


Neither are any of the others though.


To be fair, they’re guilty of not silencing a couple of their opinion hosts for a couple of days. Multiple anchors angrily shut down the story on-air on more than one occasion, and Tucker Carlson was so skeptical he made an enemy of Trump.

Maybe someone should have gone after the politicians and media and filmmakers that claimed Diebold stole the Ohio election for Bush and this could have been nipped in the bud.




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