They should require the presenters to, at the beginning of the show and after each commercial break, announce that what is being presented in this show is pure fiction and for entertainment purposes only. That no one should believe or make any decisions based on what the see or here.
People take fiction pretty seriously. I suspect that a fiction warning would have no more impact than when you tell a fan that pro wrestling is fake. I mean, look how many still fervently worship deities other than the great Og despite all the evidence that they do not exist.
Right, but that would be like me trying to tell my parents that faux is fake. They simply won’t believe me.
If instead, the pro-wrestlers themselves before every bout pointed out that the performance was pre-scripted, including the outcome and winner, then fans may actually believe them.
It can still be entertainment, I don’t go into an MCU movie thinking that they are depicting reality. I can still root for the good guys and boo the bad.
It’s a good idea. But in keeping with both the audience and the producers of the show, not to mention the Murdochs, why not simply flash (as you suggest, before, after, and at all commercial breaks):
It seems reasonable. Plus it might help Fox News beat any additional lawsuits that might be in the offing.
Discovery Channel has fake documentaries about UFOs, mermaids, shark monsters, and so on. They have a quick disclaimer at the end to keep them out of trouble. Here is an article talking about it:
https://www.gawker.com/shark-week-opens-with-fake-megalodon-documentary-1028053485
None of the institutions or agencies that appear in the film are affiliated with it in any way, nor have approved its contents. Though certain events and characters in this film have been dramatized, sightings of “Submarine” continue to this day. Megalodon was a real shark. Legends of giant sharks persist all over the world. There is still debate about what they might be.
They could just take a cue from them to keep away lawsuits. And gullible morons will still not realize they’re watching fiction, just like the people who believe that Ancient Aliens is a documentary series.
I suggested a constant Chryon crawl with more or less that as a part of the Dominion settlement a couple weeks ago. Probably wouldn’t do any good but it would amuse the rest of us.
Settlement? I didn’t hear about a settlement, only a ruling by a judge where Fox lost their motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Have I missed something big?
I meant when the settlement happens. If the case was already settled, it would have been too late.
Ah, ok.
Honestly, I’ll be surprised if Dominion settles. This looks like a jury case all the way, baby.
For Dominion, it’s not really about the money. The evidence is all on tape. The best way for Dominion to redeem their reputation – which has in fact been badly damaged on the basis of Fox’s lies – is to rub Fox’s nose in the well-publicized trial proceedings for as long as possible.
Hence the Chryon.
When Foxites aren’t lying, they’re engaged in massive projection.
Last night Tucker Carlson denounced Dr. Peter Hotez, a Baylor University infectious diseases specialist who’s long been involved in development of vaccines for “forgotten” diseases primarily affecting Third World countries. Hotez has long been a target of antivax loons because of his advocacy for vaccination. Tucker had this to say about Hotez, who he called “a nutcase”:
"“He’s a misinformation machine constantly spewing insanity…he’s totally ignorant.”
Sorry, I should have warned you to shield your irony meters before reading that. 
I wonder if this was before or after the announcement that Hotez and a colleague (Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the low-cost Corbevax covid-19 vaccine.
Undoubtedly fine people doing Thor’s work, but being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is not that big a deal: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
I imagine it would mean more if scientists got an award for scientific achievements rather than social ones.
Past nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize have included Hitler, Stalin, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh.
Developing a new and effective vaccine for a scourge like schistosomiasis would bring Dr. Hotez great acclaim, hopefully something more meaningful than the Nobel Peace Prize.*
*actual winners haven’t always been great benefactors of humanity.
You beat me to it. There are a very large number of people who can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obviously, being nominated doesn’t mean one is has any class at all.
One thing that is interesting (at least to me) is that the selection committee isn’t required to choose the winner from the nominees. They can select someone that didn’t even receive a nomination, but I don’t know if they have ever done that. With hundreds of nominees each year, it seems likely that anyone who has a chance of winning would have been among the nominees.
Probably. I suspect that Tuckyo Rose is almost as butthurt as Napoleon Boneyspurs himself that he (Boneyspurs) didn’t get a “Noble” Prize.
Not really a fair statement. Hitler was nominated by a single crackpot. I suspect that something much the same goes for the others. I’ll guess that Trump was probably nominated by one “John Barron”. Oh wait, one of the qualifying occupations for a nominator is “university professor”, so “Dr. John Barron, of Trump University”.
On a different topic, when CNN ran a news item earlier today about their president, Jeff Zucker, resigning due to failing to disclose a relationship with a colleague, I just had to see how our good friends at “fair & balanced” Fox News were handling it.
Well!!! At the time, they were treating it like the Story of the Century, taking up most of their main web page, including an enormous picture of Zucker. The general trend of the story is that this was yet another example of the endless “corruption” at CNN. To add a touch of class and journalistic professionalism to the story, they featured a quote from Trump calling Zucker “a world-class sleazebag”, and attributing his firing “predominantly” to CNN’s policies of “fake news”.
They have since reduced the front-page footprint of the story, but are continuing to push the “CNN is corrupt to the core” angle.
So, not just a bunch of lying fucks, but utterly reprehensible fuckwads.
Sweet! I have a friend who is a professor of astronomy at a Georgia university. Nobel nomination, here I come!