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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Have you watched FOX news lately? I've been watching quite a bit lately. the conspiracies and fear mongering is beyond imaginable. they had a commentator on the NEWS SEGMENT, not an opinion show but the news, state that the caravan is bringing small pox to Americans.
fucking small pox was eradicated off the face of the planet a long time ago!
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The guy who made that claim is NOT a "commentator". He was a guest on the Neil Cavuto show which was being hosted by Charles Payne in Cavutos absence.
The guest was David Ward a former ICE agent who has no idea about what diseases that immigrants from 3rd world country's have and was making wild conjecture.
Payne is a Fox Business economic guy. He also has no clue and therefore didn't "challenge" the assertion.
Anyway, that one dumb moment leads you to conclude that Fox News is full of "fear mongering" and "conspiracy theories"?
No. It is full of bullshit to garner ratings. But they also take the time to report the news with an actual newsbreak on the hour and half hour. They also have several actual NEWS shows like Shepard Smith's show and Shannon Bream's news show.
That is something that is totally missed by CNN...which has ZERO news hours now. And they spend 24/7 with the "Russian" conspiracy theory and actual fear mongering about how the President is "dangerous".
They pretty much spend all day, every day doing everything they can to divide the country in hopes of getting Democrats elected.
All the media is shitty. But I do give props to Fox News for actually covering all the news stories of the day every day. CNN does not do that at all anymore.
At least CNN still has HLN headline news....Oops, no they don't.
On Oct. 15th it was announced that HLN is now restructuring and will be dropping doing the news.
"CNN Executive Vice President Ken Jautz detailed the changes in a memo to staffers that was obtained by Mediaite.
Jautz told his staff that the “cable news landscape is dominated by politics,” and HLN’s “live news shows have not benefitted from this trend given our story mix.”
“We will shift some of our resources from live to longform programming and produce our live shows in as streamlined a manner as possible. The best way to do this is to centralize production of live news programming in Atlanta," Jautz wrote.
Their "story mix". Wow. LOL! That's the state of our media these days. Instead of just reporting the freaking news they are all about forming storylines and trying to make money.
And nothing wrong with making money...but WHERE is the news?