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[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 Fox is not actually a news source but it is relied upon like one. In several defamation lawsuits, Fox’s defense has been that it is an entertainment network— not a news network— and that its reporting should not be relied upon for truth and accuracy. They’ve lost quite a few legal battles that way, 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]

This is not correct. Fox argued that their opinion shows  like Sean Hannity, tucker carlson, Janine Pirro and similar shows were not news but opinion/entertainment shows and not news programs. Obviously many people relied on Hannity, Carlson and so on to discuss facts and not making them up just for ratings, but Fox insists that their news portion is actually reliable news programming. And this is not even true. The day the market crashed last week it was prominent first news on any news website including wsj.com, but there was nothing NOTHING virtually all day on fox.com, just the usual female teacher sexually abuse student (if you read Fox, half of teachers in the Us must abuse their students and only the female teachers). So, even aside from the opinion part, Fox has a real news section that Fox touts as fair and balanced and reliable even though it no longer is. Even the news part now is propaganda and this explain why various long time Fox journalists left in recent times. One thing is giving news with a conservative slant, another is issuing propaganda news Pravda-style that totally hide important news of the day when they are damaging to the president or amplify the same president’ BS statements[/quote]

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