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It doesn't mention whatever conspiracy theories Carlson is pushing and/or when, where, how or what deaths they've caused
... Obviously they haven't been able to somehow align the Massachusetts shooter with Carlson or they surely would have done so
... The "Great Replacement Theory" is not Carson's .. Many people have talked about it for years .. It's a stretch of the imagination to tie what Carlson has said about it to a deranged teenager that killed a buncha people in a supermarket because he wrote something about the same thing/theory ... Besides, the Great Replacement Theory isn't anti black people, which this kid is, from what they're saying
The left is politicizing the shooting for the benefit of democrats. Then people like Al Shapton will rile up BLM and antifa and cause more violence and they'll blame white supremacy for it all
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Subject: Re: FOX Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:59 pm
6-4-2022
So the RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX Wasn't One After All: Tucker Carlson Admits that Russia Got Trump Elected.
For the past five years Donald Trump and his Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News) have been whining petulantly about what they refer to as the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax." It has been a well coordinated effort to refute the documented collusion between Trump and Russia to advance his campaign for president in both 2016 and 2020.
On Friday the crusade by Fox News to absolve Trump of any liability for colluding with Russia to undermine American democracy hit a snag. Fox's Senior Trump-fluffer, Tucker Carlson, made a surprising admission during a segment in which he intended to smear President Biden's record on the economy in general, and gas prices in particular. Carlson embarked on a series of flagrant lies saying that...
"The White House is doing all it can to keep fuel prices high. Biden has just pushed the EU to stop buying Russian oil. It’s payback for getting Trump elected. But the effect is to guarantee higher process on the international oil market. That means higher prices for you. So this is not an accident. They're doing it on purpose. This is the "Green New Deal" they couldn't get through Congress.
First of all, the entire free world has been shunning Russian oil in response to Vladimir Putin's brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. That isn't Biden's fault. It's Putin's.
And if Biden has supported that effort to stop funding Russia's aggression, then he should be commended for taking the principled and moral position.
More to the point, Carlson's statement that "It’s payback for getting Trump elected," is an explicit admission that the so-called "Russia Hoax" was not a hoax after all. Carlson is finally conceding that Russia deliberately interfered in American politics on Trump's behalf.
Of course, this is something that every well informed American already knew. Trump himself spoke of it during the infamous Helsinki Summit. ___Even Putin said so when asked - "did you direct any of your officials to help" Trump? With Trump standing next him he replied, "Yes, I did."
What's more, a bipartisan report from the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that "The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat [and] detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help."
As for Carlson's wholly dishonest assertions regarding the high price of gas, he is unjustifiably blaming Biden for a problem that is occurring worldwide.
* No president has the ability to control the price of oil. It's an international commodity.
However, if the Biden administration were "doing all it can to keep fuel prices high," would he have ordered the release of 90 million barrels from the Strategic Oil Reserve?
Would he be promoting the expansion of renewable energy (which Carlson also took a shot at in his rant)?
Would he have supported the - "Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act" that just passed in the House of Representatives?
If Carlson is looking for someone to blame for the continuing high gas prices, he might want to take note that____ every single Republican in the House voted against the bill to stop greedy oil companies, who are currently raking in record profits, from gouging the American people.
So the GOP is happy to allow oil companies to exploit struggling Americans. Just as they were happy to allow Trump to collude with Russia.
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Subject: Re: FOX Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:54 pm
It's pretty obvious why you don't cite where this tripe comes from
... They beat the shit outta that dead horse, now they're beating the *ghost* of the dead horse
That article is trash and you should be embarrassed for pasting it here to possibly be read
... Only the most nauseating, degenerate, left wingnuts still desperately cling to the Trump-Russia collusion shit ... I doubt you'll find anyone to bother arguing with you about it anymore ...
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:22 pm
6-6-2022 Former Republican Party spokesman Kurt Bardella tore into Fox News for refusing to carry coverage of the upcoming January 6 hearings in Congress. "I think it's time that we reach the point where we stop treating Fox like a news outlet at all, because it's clearly not.
They are making the conscious decision to commit journalistic malpractice by ignoring the biggest story right now, the biggest story perhaps in our — in our entire country's history actually, when you look at where this is all
This is a major pivotal inflection point in the fight to salvage democracy, and they are choosing not to cover it.
That's not the action of a responsible news outlet. Not the action of a journalist or reporter. That's the action of a propaganda vehicle for a political party that's determined to play a substantial role in undermining democracy as we know it."
Bardella took it further, suggesting that Fox News doesn't deserve to have White House press passes.
"Why these people are allowed to have a White House press briefing access, why they are allowed to have a press credential to cover the U.S. Capitol, I have no idea," said Bardella.
"I know this. If al-Qaeda created a media outlet, we wouldn't give them a hard pass to cover our government. Why in the world would we allow the people who are egging on, fomenting and defending insurrectionists to have that type of access? They shouldn't."
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:44 pm
Well I'd imagine all the democrat's networks will be covering it. So what's the problem? ..
..Maybe Fox thinks we've heard enough rattling on about it for the past 18 months .. and since the dems made it clear that they'll continue to withhold info about it, the whole thing seems pointless
... The outcome is predestined anyway .. They've been rehersing, planning their show for 18 months ... "-Undermining democracy ...Trump ...conspiracy ..violent riot, bla bla" ..
The left been claiming for years that Fox isn't a news outlet, now they're squawking that they're not reporting on their big news event
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:07 pm
Fox News Host Jesse Watters Hosting Two Shows That Are Dominating Ratings Martin Walsh, June 13, 2022
Fox News continues to crush all cable news programs in the ratings and Jesse Watters hosts two of the network’s top programs.
The hit show “The Five,” where Watters is a co-host, once again led all cable news shows in total viewers last week and it wasn’t even close.
“Fox News Channel was the most-watched basic cable network in total day and the third-most-watched in primetime. The cable news powerhouse also averaged more total primetime viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined for the 45th consecutive week,” AdWeek reported.
“According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, Fox News averaged 2.29 million total viewers in primetime this past week, No. 3 behind the networks broadcasting the NBA and NHL playoffs TNT and ESPN—and +3% from what the network averaged in the daypart the previous week (May 9). Fox News also averaged 350,000 adults 25-54 in primetime, which is up +6% from the week prior and No. 3 behind playoffs-carrying TNT (1.335 million), and ESPN (1.09 million),” the report continued.
In addition to “The Five,” Watters also hosts his own program, “Jesse Watters Primetime.” His show came in third place as the most-watched program on Fox News, beating out Sean Hannity, Bret Baier, and Laura Ingraham.
“The Five was the most-watched show of the week, both in total viewers (3.19 million) and among adults 25-54 (469,000). Tucker Carlson Tonight came in second in average total viewers (2.97 million), followed by Jesse Watters Primetime at No. 3 (2.53 million viewers at 9 p.m.), Hannity at No. 4 (2.46 million at 7 p.m.), and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.285 million viewers at 6 p.m.) rounding out the five-most-watched,” the report stated.
Host Greg Gutfeld, who also co-hosts “The Five,” also has his own show that is dominating cable news ratings.
In May, “The Five” was the most-watched show on cable news in both total audience and among the key 25-54 age demographic.
The show averaged nearly 3.28 million total viewers in the 5 p.m. hour during May 2022.
Gutfeld also hosts his weekend late-night show “Gutfeld!” which has been a ratings hit.
Below are the 10 most-watched cable news shows from May:
“People don’t go to entertainment for homework,” Gutfeld said. “You don’t pay for homework. And it feels like there’s been this modern kind of woke culture where everything is being informed with a lesson you have to learn — it’s like, I don’t need to be lectured. I didn’t come here to be told how this is oppression and I have to, like, learn about these things. I came to be entertained.”
“If you’ve been watching my stuff, I spend a lot of time talking about media. Because I know the internal flaws of it. The Gutfeld show became successful because it came at exactly the right time.” he said. “People have had it with being told that every institution in your life is somehow oppressor vs. oppressed.”
“The thing we did was we said we’re no different than you are. We’re looking at this stuff with a jaundiced eye. We get it. We’re on your side. So, I think it’s a combination of we’re entertainment, and we’re not homework,” Gutfeld continued.
This has also been a huge year for host Tucker Carlson as his primetime show on Fox News smashed another key barrier earlier this year.
Television viewership data released by Nielsen/MRI Fusion reveals that Carlson’s show is the number one most-watched show among Democrats in the key demographic of 25-54 year-olds.
Anchor Sean Hannity also recently became the longest-running prime-time cable news host.
Hannity, who has been with Fox News since its launch in 1996, smashed another record after becoming a host for nearly 25 years and six months.
Hannity said, “I am extremely grateful to FOX News Media and to our loyal, dedicated viewers whom I am proud to serve every night.”
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:51 pm
Fox news and opinion programming at the network; “The opinion hosts versus news anchors tell the story. There’s far more opinion than facts on Fox News. The amount of time spent on opinion compared to the news has highly shifted the course of Fox News life. Opinion commentators are not news facts. Conspiracies and propaganda are the highlights of their shows no actual facts are presented. Fox viewers are entertained not factually informed on their shows.. Ratings are good for Fox considering it's no longer actual news. The prime-time commentators are in kind to talk show hosts entertainment and are not reporting the news they are not reporters/journalists but mainly angery opinions.
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:08 pm
Temple wrote:
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Television viewership data released by Nielsen/MRI Fusion reveals that Carlson’s show is the number one most-watched show among Democrats in the key demographic of 25-54 year-olds.
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:45 pm
So, is Fox dead yet?
Not you, Poppy
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:57 pm
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
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Television viewership data released by Nielsen/MRI Fusion reveals that Carlson’s show is the number one most-watched show among Democrats in the key demographic of 25-54 year-olds.
We are drawn toward some pretty repulsive things to watch. We actually have a laugh when watching idiots at work. A curiosity. Ever pass a horrific car crash on the road that you can’t seem to turn your attention away from, well that's fox ludicrous propaganda and conspiracies. Michale, I, and others have turned on Tucker just for the ridiculous insanity entertainment and some good laughs-- It's just normal to want to see a clusterfuck bahaa! Nothing serious..
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:06 pm
Temple wrote:
We actually have a laugh when watching idiots at work.
Indeed we do
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Subject: Re: FOX Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:48 pm
CNN Posts Lowest Day In Ratings Since July 2000; ‘The Five’ Comes In #1 Again Photo of Martin Walsh, June 21, 2022
Fox News continues to crush all cable news programs in the ratings.
The hit show “The Five” once again led all cable news shows in total viewers while CNN posted its lowest day in ratings since July 2020.
“CNN capped off a weak week in the ratings on Friday, dipping to the network’s lowest Friday in the key 25-54 age demographic since July 14th, 2000. CNN brought in a total day average of 60,000 demo viewers, just higher than the network’s 59,000 demo viewers in July 2000,” Mediaite reported.
“Fox News topped the ratings in the demo and in terms of total viewers on Friday, bringing in 221,000 demo viewers and 1.56 million average total viewers. MSNBC came in second place with 83,000 demo viewers and 818,000 average total viewers. CNN landed in third place with 303,000 total viewers,” the outlet added.
The month of May was also massive for Fox News and “The Five.”
“Fox News Channel was the most-watched basic cable network in total day and the third-most-watched in primetime. The cable news powerhouse also averaged more total primetime viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined for the 45th consecutive week,” AdWeek reported.
“According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, Fox News averaged 2.29 million total viewers in primetime this past week, No. 3 behind the networks broadcasting the NBA and NHL playoffs TNT and ESPN—and +3% from what the network averaged in the daypart the previous week (May 9). Fox News also averaged 350,000 adults 25-54 in primetime, which is up +6% from the week prior and No. 3 behind playoffs-carrying TNT (1.335 million), and ESPN (1.09 million),” the report continued.
This has also been a huge year for Jesse Watters, who is a co-host on “The Five” and now has his own show on the network.
Waters took over as the permanent host of the 7 PM EST weekday time slot this week on Fox News and he raked in 3.8 million total viewers on his first day. That represented the network’s best ratings in that timeslot in more than a year.
Watters recently spoke about his new show and gave an idea of what he envisions for the program long-term.
He said that it would be “an entertaining hour with news and politics and culture, crime, tabloid — everything.”
Popular host Tucker Carlson’s primetime show on Fox News smashed another key barrier earlier this year.
Television viewership data released by Nielsen/MRI Fusion reveals that Carlson’s show is the number one most-watched show among Democrats in the key demographic of 25-54 year-olds.
Anchor Sean Hannity also recently became the longest-running prime-time cable news host.
Hannity, who has been with Fox News since its launch in 1996, smashed another record after becoming a host for nearly 25 years and six months.
“Sean’s authenticity and insightful commentary have created one of the most enduring connections with our audience and it’s been an honor to watch him over the years. A FOX News original, he has helped innovate the industry, and we are incredibly proud of his extraordinary success,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said of Hannity’s longevity and success.
Hannity said, “I am extremely grateful to FOX News Media and to our loyal, dedicated viewers whom I am proud to serve every night.”
Fox News issued a statement celebrating the milestone, saying, “FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Sean Hannity has notched yet another industry milestone, becoming the longest-running primetime cable news host in television history. Today marks 25 consecutive years, six months, and 15 days at the helm of a primetime cable news program, breaking the previous longstanding record* held by the late talk show host Larry King. As cable news’ most enduring personality, Hannity has been a staple of FNC’s primetime lineup since the launch of the network in 1996, where his candid style and passionate commentary have made him one of the most prominent and influential voices in the country.”
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Subject: Re: FOX Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:11 pm
CNN; It's quality, not quality--Always- It's facts vs propaganda/conspiracies- It's news, not irrational ranting- It's actual reporters/journalists not talk show hosts- ((( just the facts )))
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Subject: Re: FOX Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:33 pm
Temple wrote:
CNN; It's quality, not quality--Always- It's facts vs propaganda/conspiracies- It's news, not irrational ranting- It's actual reporters/journalists not talk show hosts- ((( just the facts )))
CNN; It's quality, not quality--Always- It's facts vs propaganda/conspiracies- It's news, not irrational ranting- It's actual reporters/journalists not talk show hosts- ((( just the facts )))
Verry good, you agree-- The meter arrow is all the to the left= not a lie Did you open them? If not you should ..
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 22, 2022 4:34 am
Temple wrote:
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
CNN; It's quality, not quality--Always- It's facts vs propaganda/conspiracies- It's news, not irrational ranting- It's actual reporters/journalists not talk show hosts- ((( just the facts )))
Verry good, you agree-- The meter arrow is all the to the left= not a lie Did you open them? If not you should ..
All are LIES, you dumb fuck.
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:24 am
Temple wrote:
CNN; It's quality, not quality--Always- It's facts vs propaganda/conspiracies- It's news, not irrational ranting- It's actual reporters/journalists not talk show hosts- ((( just the facts )))
Subject: Judge Rejects Fox Corp's Bid To Kill Dominion Suit - Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:37 pm
6-20-2022
Judge rejects Fox Corp's bid to kill Dominion suit — says Murdochs may have been in on spreading falsehoods.
According to Bloomberg News, Fox Corp. has once again lost a motion to dismiss the defamation suit levied against them by Dominion Voting Systems — and this time, the judge presiding over the case made it clear that the Murdoch family themselves may have been in on knowingly spreading the false attacks against them.
"Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis on Tuesday denied Fox Corp.’s motion to dismiss the suit, saying Dominion Voting Systems had shown that the Murdochs may have been on notice that the conspiracy theory that rigged voting machines tilted the vote was false but let Fox News broadcast it anyway," reported Erik Larson and Mike Leonard.
"Dominion cited in its suit a report that Rupert Murdoch spoke with Trump a few days after the election 'and informed him that he had lost,' the judge noted."
This is the latest of multiple efforts by Fox Corp. to have the suit dismissed; in December, Davis dismissed another such motion.
"Davis noted in his ruling that, according to Dominion’s suit, various news outlets reported that Rupert Murdoch spoke with Trump and other senior Republicans shortly after the election and urged them to drop their election-fraud narrative and concede defeat. The voting-technology firm was also able to point to a claim that Murdoch urged a Republican leader to ask other politicians in the party not to endorse Trump’s false theory about Dominion, the judge said," said the report.
"The ruling is the latest by a judge allowing defamation suits to proceed against conservative news outlets and Trump allies who allegedly repeated the false theory extensively on-air — a theory that ultimately helped trigger the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot."
As the report notes, proving defamation against a media outlet requires an extremely high bar of evidence — the plaintiff must establish not only that the claims against them were false and injurious to their reputation, but that the defendant knew the information was false or else acted with a reckless disregard for what they knew or didn't know to be true.
In addition to Dominion, Fox Corp. also faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit from Smartmatic, another elections equipment company. A Dominion employee is separately suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for naming him as a supposed mastermind of switching votes in the 2020 election.
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Subject: Re: FOX Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:02 am
Group aims to strip Fox News of ad revenue over ‘fueling next insurrection’ Adam Gabbatt Fri, June 24, 2022, 1:00 AM
After two years which have seen Fox News lunge even further towards the right wing of US politics, the news channel may now start to suffer the consequences, with the launch of a campaign to strip the news channel’s Foxnews.com website of advertising revenue.
Check Your Ads, an organization run by two former marketing executives, launched its campaign to target Fox News in early June, accusing the news channel and its website of “working overtime to fuel the next insurrection”.
More than 40,000 people signed up in the first five days, forming an increasingly powerful lobbying group which aims to get ad exchanges to drop Foxnews.com.
The campaign comes at a time when prominent Fox News hosts are downplaying the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington DC as “a forgettably minor outbreak” of “mob violence”, continuing to dabble in election conspiracy theories, and have most recently begun to brand school teachers and drag performers as “groomers”.
Check My Ads, was founded by two marketing executives who have a deep understanding of how advertising appears on websites. Despite its record of dabbling in misinformation, adverts for companies like Walgreens and Optimum can still be found on Foxnews.com. The adverts are largely placed there, Atkin said, by ad exchanges, which handle the distribution of adverts for advertising agencies.
“Foxnews.com benefits enormously from being a part of the global advertising society. Foxnews.com receives ads from blue chip brands, which gives incredible legitimacy to the lies that they are publishing. That brand equity is intrinsically valuable,” Atkin said.
A number of large companies have already stopped advertising on the Fox News after various misdeeds by its TV hosts over the years. But ads for Walgreens and the like still pop-up on the Fox News website, despite the obvious link between the two entities. Whereas viewers of the TV channel might see adverts for relatively little known companies, like Nutrisystem and Balance of Nature, visitors to the website see the names of big companies, which can suggest to the reader that this is a respected website.
“When Fox is plugged into that ads supply chain, it gives them the legitimacy of a real news outlet, when in fact they are publishing disinformation regularly that leads to real world violence.”
In the two weeks following the 2020 election, Fox News cast doubt on, or pushed conspiracy theories about the result 774 times, according to Media Matters for America, a watchdog group. That helped to fuel anger among Donald Trump’s supporters – rage which came to the surface on 6 January, when hundreds of Trump’s adherents stormed the US Capitol.
Since the Capitol attack, Fox News hosts have rubbished the idea that the storming of the building – done in an attempt to stop Joe Biden being declared president – was an insurrection. Fox News viewers have instead heard that it was a minor skirmish, one which may even have been orchestrated by the government.
That’s why, Atkin said, Check my ads is determined to trim the network’s wings.
“Advertisers have been crystal clear that they do not want to sponsor violence. And we all saw what happened on January 6. It’s not just violence, this was the attempted overthrow of the government. This is world scale political violence,” Atkin said.
Ad exchanges vet certain websites before placing adverts on behalf of their clients. If a website meets their criteria – and the criteria often include statements that the website does not endorse or encourage harassment or bullying – then ads are placed on them.
But the exchanges, Atkin said, are “not checking their inventory” thoroughly enough, and websites like Fox News are slipping through the cracks.
Check My Ads’ campaign works by finding which ad exchanges are active on a given website, which is easy enough to do: typing https://www.foxnews.com/ads.txt brings up the list.
The innovative part of Check my ads is how the organization has set up a way for people to send swift, concise complaints to those ad exchanges. The organization sends out email templates to those who sign up, which they can send on to ad exchanges, flagging sites where the exchange has placed ads on sites which are incompatible with the exchanges’ stated policy.
“The ad exchanges promise in their legal documentation in these policies that are available online to anyone: ‘We only work with premium publishers and we will never work with websites that publish election disinformation, the promotion of real world violence, all of these other things,” Atkin said.
“That is providing a sense of false confidence to advertisers. Because as we know, these ad exchanges are still sending ads and money and data to the propaganda outlets that are doing our society the most harm, and who are the most brand unsafe.”
Fox News did not respond to a request for comment, but previously told NPR: “There’s no greater threat to democracy than the effort to silence free speech.”
The campaign isn’t going to financially crippled Fox News. Some 95% of Fox’s revenue comes from cable contracts, as opposed to advertising, NPR reported this year. But Atkin believes the campaign, as well as removing ads which lend legitimacy to Fox News, could also prevent Foxnews.com from collecting data on its users so that they can be later targeted with specific content – potentially anti-democratic content.
Fox News is the most-watched cable news channel in the US, and is a huge opponent. But Check My Ads are hopeful that they have found a foolproof way to at least take away some of its power.
“The fact is that the advertising industry, in general, has said one thing and it has done another,” she said.
“We are opening the conversation up for everyone who wants to say enough is enough.”
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Subject: Check My Ads Has Launched a Campaign in an Effort to Restrict Fox News Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:02 pm
6-26-2022
Former marketing executives launch campaign to keep Fox News from 'fueling next insurrection'.
An organization called Check My Ads has launched a campaign in an effort to restrict Fox News ad revenue to prevent them from "working overtime to fuel the next insurrection."
The organization, which is run by two former marketing executives, has already collected over 40,000 signatures from people backing their efforts in just five days, according to The Guardian, and the goal is to get ad exchanges to drop the news site.
"Foxnews.com benefits enormously from being a part of the global advertising society. Foxnews.com receives ads from blue chip brands, which gives incredible legitimacy to the lies that they are publishing. That brand equity is intrinsically valuable," says Claire Atkin, a team member of Check My Ads.
The messaging included in the campaign reads:
HERE'S THE PROBLEM Advertisers don't place ads on the internet themselves. They use ad exchanges — technology companies that run ads for them.
ADVERTISEMENT Ad exchanges don't work with just anyone. They choose which websites to work with and which ones to drop. They have standards to protect advertisers from funding violence. This is so important to advertisers that they have it written into their contracts.
When Fox News promoted the January 6th insurrection, it was violent. We all saw it — but ad exchange executives pretended it didn't happen. Since then, Fox News has just gotten worse. So here's the plan: we need to tell ad exchanges to block their ads from FoxNews.com now. "Advertisers have been crystal clear that they do not want to sponsor violence. And we all saw what happened on January 6. It's not just violence, this was the attempted overthrow of the government. This is world-scale political violence," Atkin said. "We are opening the conversation up for everyone who wants to say enough is enough."
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:31 pm
6-28-2022
Fox News personalities Bret Baier, Sandra Smith, and John Roberts reacting to Hutchinson’s afternoon stroll over the endless sprawling acres of Trump’s purpling carcass.
_____ BAIER: “We always point out that there’s not a pushback, and it would have been great to hear Jim Jordan or some congressman say some other angle to this, but the testimony in and of itself is really, really powerful.”
[Stunned silence]
ROBERTS: “Sandra? Are you still here?”
SMITH: “Indeed, yes, I am here. You know, Bret, to your point, I just wonder for the country watching this in this moment, how much this changes what people believed or did not believe.”
"This is a bombshell. It's stunning. It's shocking. The story about 'The Beast' -- I don't have words. It's just stunning," said one Trump adviser, referring to the presidential limousine. "This paints a picture of Trump completely unhinged and completely losing all control which, for his base, they think of him as someone who is in command at all times. This completely flies in the face of that," the adviser added. ...
"For the first time since the hearings started, no one is dismissing this," the adviser said.
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Subject: Re: FOX Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:55 pm
7-4-2022
Fox News in real trouble for spreading 'pure bunk' about Trump's loss -- and OAN could be 'wiped out' by lawsuits.
Legal experts believe that Fox News could be in real trouble for spreading baseless conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's election loss.
A judge ruled last month that Dominion Voting Systems could move forward with its lawsuit against Fox Corp., the conservative news network's parent company, for amplifying bogus claims that it rigged the election for Joe Biden, and Judge Eric Davis made clear the $1.6 billion suit was not frivolous, reported The Guardian.
“These allegations support a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth when they allegedly caused Fox News to propagate its claims about Dominion,” Davis said in his ruling.
That doesn't guarantee Fox News or the Murdochs will be held liable, but legal experts agree the suit poses a real threat to conservative networks that spread the conspiracy theories.
“Dominion has a very strong case against Fox News – and against OAN for that matter,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a constitutional law professor at Stetson University and a fellow at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. “The reason Dominion is suing is because Fox and other rightwing news outlets repeated vicious lies that Dominion’s voting machines stole the 2020 election from Trump for Biden. But all of these conspiracy theories about Dominion’s machines were just pure bunk, and Fox as a news organization should have known that and not given this aspect of the big lie a megaphone.”
“What’s particularly bad for Fox is [that] Dominion asked them to stop and correct the record in real time, " she added, "and Fox persisted in spreading misrepresentations about the voting machine company.”
Davis noted in his ruling that newspapers under Rupert Murdoch's control, such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, condemned Trump's election lies and urged the former president to concede his loss, and text messages obtained by the Jan. 6 commission show communication between Fox News hosts and White House officials about the insurrection.
“I think once you start to pull the discovery material, what you’re going to find is there was a lot of communication between the Trump people both internally and externally about pushing very specific lies and narratives,” said Angelo Carusone, president and chief executive of Media Matters for America.
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:06 pm
7-20-2022
Fox News is now calling Biden senile for saying “end of quote” while giving a speech. That would be news to... all of these Republicans.
Fox News' treatment of Trump is 'the biggest burn' that can be inflicted on him.
Reacting to reports of a schism between Donald Trump and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, reporter Tara Palmieri told CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday that the former president is feeling "bruised" that he doesn't get praise on Fox News anymore -- if he gets mentioned at all.
With the Washington Post reporting that the House Jan. 6 hearings have put a damper on Murdoch's enthusiasm for Trump running for office again, Palmieri and GOP strategist Liz Mair had differing opinions on why Trump is on the outs with Fox.
"Donald Trump isn't as entertaining as he was in 2015 or 2016, " Mair suggested. "In 2015 and 2016 and beyond that, whether you loved him or hated him, I was definitely on the hate side, he was like the car crash on the side of the road you couldn't take your eyes off. That's not the case anymore. He's not very interesting to anybody, whether you're talking about progressives, conservatives, libertarians."
"People like [Florida Republican] Ron Desantis are more interesting, that's a judgment call. I think Fox naturally is going to make it," she added.
"I would disagree," Palmieri. "I think the Donald Trump show is still a car crash, just a very expensive one to follow like Fox News learned with that Dominion suit."
"At the end of the day they don't need to cover Trump anymore," she continued. "That's so bruising for him. Trump is okay with the critical coverage, but to be ignored is the biggest burn you can do to Donald Trump."
"I don't think the show has changed, it's the same show, it's just they're not watching it anymore." "Then you just have Breitbart and the marginal outlets watching, but not the older voters you need."
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8-3-2022
Watch__ 'As if I never existed': Rudy Giuliani pouts after being banned from Fox News on 9/11.
On Steve Bannon's "War Room" on Wednesday, during a segment in which Bannon was criticizing Fox News for giving so much coverage to former Vice President Mike Pence instead of former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani complained bitterly about how Fox News doesn't invite him on as a guest anymore — and in particular how they didn't invite him on for the most recent anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
"Would Roger Ailes have tolerated — the other day, Donald Trump returns to Washington, D.C. for the first time since he left, to give a keynote address on law and order and anarchy in our major cities.
Mike Pence gives a seventeen minute bromides for a high school kid, cut and paste, absolutely ridiculous, they cover seventeen minutes and they blow a commercial break, which is like a mortal sin over at Fox, right? They blow a commercial break to cover all of it. Why do they have a thumb on the scale for a loser and a coward like Mike Pence, and they're up against, trying to defeat again, Donald J. Trump?"
"Well, I mean, they were doing it back then back before they realized Trump was going to win and they wanted to go with the winner," said Giuliani. I mean, how could they not have me on on September 11th? They went through September 11 as if I never existed. I mean, it's amazing. They're part of the make-up-history-the way-they-want-it-to-be-network.
Giuliani was famously mayor of New York City during 9/11 and earned adoration from the media for being on scene and speaking to the affected during the crisis. Since then, he has also famously tried to leverage 9/11 for his political career repeatedly, even running for president in 2007 and asking supporters for $9.11 in a fundraiser.
Fox News quietly stopped inviting Giuliani onto the network after he became closely entangled in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election — at a time when Fox itself started coming under defamation suits for falsely claiming various people and companies were involved in rigging votes. Giuliani has repeatedly attacked the network for this decision.
Bannon, who has also been under investigation for his role in the plot and the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was recently convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with House investigators.
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