Foxnews has an interesting take on how to cover the president. Apparently, they should cover the president only the way he wants to be covered:
*You know your heart and you know your words and your voice and you watch what other people report on what you say and it’s completely different than what you mean,” Earhardt continued. “That has to be frustrating. That’s why he is calling it fake news.”
“He’s saying if you don’t want to be called the enemy, then get the story right, be accurate and report the story the way I want it reported,” she added.*
No word on what the media is supposed to do if getting the story right and reporting it the way the president wants are mutually exclusive options.
Remember the migrant caravan? The biggest, scariest story on Foxnews the past few weeks? Either the problem got quietly solved, or Foxnews was full of shit, because all of a sudden they are no longer interested in that story and have barely mentioned itsince the election.
Tucker Carlson was attacked by antifa protesters. Well, ok, he was not attacked, but they attacked his house and broke his door. Well, they apparently lunged against his door and his wife said she thought she heard it crack (though there seems to be no sign of damage). But they did shout a lot outside his house and spraypaint an “A” in a circle on his driveway.
But he should never be expected to face any consequences for saying stupid shit on TV, because, freedom.
Michael Avenatti has a client who says Tucker Carlson assaulted him at some country club. They’re going back and forth on Twitter, complete with chest beating.
The irony about the pro-Fox News people who might also fall under the anti-Semitic leaning Alt-Right crowd: Fox News was named after a Hungarian Jewish immigrant named William Fox who was a Republican and a socialist when he was young (between 12-15). A few years after losing control of his film company (11/1929), he fraudulently filed for bankruptcy and bribed a judge named John Warrin Davis (sometime in 1936). Oh, and Fox even served a 5-month jail sentence for bribing the judge (early 1943).**
Sources of info include: A Biography of William Fox
Krefft, Vanda. “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox”: HarperCollins, 2017.*
*It was released a few days after Thanksgiving 2017. Counting the book index and works cited sections, it is over 925 pages. I just have not committed to going past page 75. Page 29 makes a brief mention of Fox’s socialist views. Vanda is also an FB lady friend of mine.
**An 8/10/2016 Chicago Tribune article called “10 things you might not know about Fox News”, written by a reporter named, Mark Jacob brings up how the network’s namesake, William Fox, was an immigrant who later bribed a federal judge and served some jail time.
A boycott that only hurts them is a stupid boycott. If they actually wanted to be effective, they’d make nonstop posts about this issue that would get tons of likes and retweets, possibly even from people on the other side.
People on Twitter don’t go there just for Fox’s tweets, and so Twitter will still get their money. But Fox loses its advertising.
Hell, I’ve been on Twitter, and I’ve literally heard nothing about Twitter not deleting posts doxxing Carlson. (Then again, they wouldn’t delete InfoWars until the guy went after the owner in person, so I’m not surprised.) If someone I know had seen their problem and retweeted it, I might have heard about it and put some pressure on Twitter.
Because, while I do not care for Carlson, doxxing and harassment are wrong. And Twitter does this on both sides, so stopping it here helps everyone. There is no reason that they couldn’t use tech to deal with this crap.
I think if this was really a boycott, that Fox would be advertising this boycott. A boycott where nobody knows that you are boycotting seems sort of stupid.
I like to use the Google news feed page to catch up quickly on news. They’ll do a headline, then have some related stories underneath from various sources. Whenever the story is about Trump, I can just read the substory headlines and guess which is from Fox News.
For instance right now, the main story headline is:
France’s Macron denounces nationalism as a ‘betrayal of patriotism’ in rebuke to Trump at WWI remembrance.
One of the subheadlines is:
Trump was right to slam Macron after the French president naively painted America as the enemy.