A Fox TV broadcast station license renewal is facing an uncommon level of scrutiny at the Federal Communications Commission, with the FCC taking the rare step of allowing broader public input on a petition to deny the station’s renewal application.
The proceeding concerns WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, the only Fox-owned TV station that’s currently up for renewal. An advocacy group called the Media and Democracy Project (MAD) petitioned the FCC to deny the renewal on July 3, arguing that Fox “has repeatedly aired false information about election fraud, sowing discord in the country and contributing to harmful and dangerous acts on January 6, 2021.”
MAD says that Fox lacks the character required to maintain a license and hopes other Fox stations will lose their licenses, too. No other Fox stations are up for license renewal until 2028, according to a Bloomberg article.
What, no other avenue for scrutiny besides renewal time?
Dan
Whew! Fox News is finally covering the Maui wildfires. They’ve found a way to attack Biden with the tragedy.
Let’s go down to the mine and lift ore out of it!
Lying, monstrous, repugnant, devious traitors. Newpersons, opinion spewers, and ownership.
“The Marine Corps worked behind the scenes last month in an attempt to convince Fox News to retract its false story claiming a Gold Star family was forced to pay $60,000 to ship the remains of a Marine killed in Afghanistan, according to emails obtained by Military.com. A service spokesman notified the news network that it was pushing an incorrect story and accused it of using the grief of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee’s family to draw in readers, the email exchanges, released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request, show. Fox News eventually deleted the story with no correction, and it never reached out to the Gee family with an apology as the Marine Corps requested, the family said. The Fox News story came from Republican Rep. Cory Mills, a freshman congressman from Florida, who claimed Gee’s next of kin were strapped with the $60,000 charge after a meeting with the families of Abbey Gate bombing victims, a suicide attack where 13 service members were killed outside of the Kabul airport in 2021. Gee’s family never paid a dollar to transport her remains, and the Marine Corps let Fox News know – in no uncertain terms – that the July 25 story was false in a series of emails over the following days.”
Do you know someone in the military? Send them this article. Why anyone in the service backs Republicants or watches Faux News is beyond me.
Because they hate Democrats more than they love their country. Quite simple. Hate reigns supreme.
I was coming to post about this story. Fox “News” is complete garbage. And they apparently hate the US military.
After being beaten about the head and shoulders, castigated by the military and media, and dealt a mighty blow here on the SDMB; Faux News apologized to the family.
"… Initially, after being notified about the false report, Fox News only changed the headline on the story to attribute the claims to Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida, who had advanced the narrative but later recanted. The outlet later scrubbed the story from its website without a correction or explanation. It remained deleted on Saturday after the apology.
Deleting an entire story is exceedingly rare in news media and is seen as a last-ditch measure if the entire premise of the article is incorrect. Deleting a story without offering readers an explanation or correction is widely considered to be unethical.
In this case, Fox News did not publicly address the incident until the Military.com story ignited backlash against the outlet.
While unethical, the behavior is typical for Fox News. The outlet often breaks traditional news ethics and traffics in dishonest reporting and commentary."https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/business/fox-news-gold-star-family-apology/index.html
This really doesn’t belong here, because Tucker Carlson is no longer with Faux, but he’s still one of the bunch of lying fucks.
“But they can’t,” he said of current American leadership. “They hate Hungary. And they hate it not because of what it’s done, but because of what it is. It’s a Christian country and they hate that. And that’s the truth. And nobody wants to say it, but it’s true.”
Checks calendar. No, full moon isn’t til wednesday.
Isn’t Ukraine also a Christian country?
Y’know what? Fuck it. I’ll say it!
Wait. What am I agreeing with/to again?
Aw.
Only when it suits Republicans. See also: Israel
Ireland is certainly one, as is England. I am taken aback that Fucker Carlson was caught in a lie.
I’m also taken aback by Fox News violating news reporting ethics.
Wait, I think I might have my definition wrong. Let me check Google…OK, not taken aback, but completely unsurprised.
Fox News website headline today:
Biden alcohol czar says US may follow Canada, limit beers to two a week: ‘what a joke’
The panicked beer drinkers who clicked on the story found out that it’s about a proposed health recommendation that people in the U.S. only have two drinks per week.
No worries, you’d still be able to load up on six-packs of beer at the 7-11 for that long, dry trip home.
“Fox” news needs to change their name to “FleaNews”, because they are like an irritating parasite that makes you itch and maybe claw yourself worse than the direct damage they cause.
Three lies in one headline. Pretty impressive.
I’m pretty sure that blue square ad during the World Series, which is being broadcast on Fox, is against all forms of hate, not just against Jewish people. I’m quite confident that Muslims were one of the groups listed.