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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WSJ has been overall critical of Trump's admin and their reporting coverage is generally of a higher quality than Fox News. The audience, judging from reader comments, is also better informed overall. In the end, it's the economy and business leaders who will lead the correction of Trump's utterly misguided leadership and, hopefully, shatter the cult.
Reading Fox News, I weep for our country. We have a horrifyingly under educated, easily duped populace.[/quote]

Perhaps. But people are entitled to both their own news sources and their own opinions. You may disagree with both, but you can't ban them based on vague allegations of misinformation or disinformation.[/quote]

I think the main problem is that[b] Fox is not actually a news source[/b] but it is relied upon like one. In [b]several defamation lawsuits, Fox’s defense has been that it is an entertainment network[/b]— not a news network— and that its reporting should not be relied upon for truth and accuracy. They’ve [b]lost quite a few legal battles that way,[/b] tremendously expensive ones, but it gives an insight into how they see their own programming. They don’t insist on high journalism standards— why should they? They’re entertainment. But some people clearly use them as their primary or even sole news source, which is very troubling. [/quote]

I am aware that during the course of a suit related to Tucker Carlson the defense was that his show was entertainment and opinion, not news.  I don't think that is the case in any other case, though happy to learn that I am wrong.  So any help with those "several defamation lawsuits" where this was raised as a defense and the "quite a few legal battles" would be appreciated.[/quote]
Are you unaware that Fox had to pay ~$800 million to Dominion Voting Systems for defaming them constantly for months? And it es any just the primetime opinion people, it was the “real news” people like Bret Baier whose emails were incriminating them. This was back in the news this week because Trump issued an executive order trying to exterminate the firm that represented Dominion.[/quote]

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