Mastodawn

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Sep 18, 2023

Ask your Fox-watching friends if they’ve seen stories about Rep. Lauren Boebert publicly groping with her date and vaping at a public performance of Beetlejuice, all with kids present. Bet they’ll look at you blankly because Fox has simply not aired the story since it broke according to media watchers.

Fox knows Boebert is in a district she nearly lost in 2022, and that the road to the House majority might run through Colorado’s 3rd. The network isn’t “fair and balanced.” That’s a joke. Fox is warped and twisted, just like the party it services.

Pro-tip: change the content controls on home cable systems so technologically challenged folks can’t access Fox. You might just save them from being sucked in further.

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Ira Sep 18, 2023

@georgetakei News is not now, nor has it ever been “fair or balanced.” News is what happened. Period. If that’s fair to you it won’t be to someone else. There is no balance. News is what happened. End of story. -30-

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Lee Hauser Sep 18, 2023

@airira @georgetakei But no one can publish ALL the news, and that’s part of being fair and balanced or not. There has to be an editorial process, someone has to decide what is an isn’t presented. Fox is making a deliberate editorial decision about what to publish, which is what all news organizations do. No, it’s not fair and balanced. Yes, it is biased. But all human editorial decisions are.

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Ira Sep 19, 2023

@lhauser @georgetakei Yes but you have it wrong. The decision to choose which stories to cover is shaded (biased is too strong a word in my opinion). But presenting the story must be factual. That is the essence of journalism. What, where, who, how and why. If you watch any broadcast network news program, the main story is the largest news item of the day. Watch more than one network on the same day. I’ll bet they all lead with the same story, told in the same way.

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Lee Hauser

@airira @georgetakei Well, I wouldn’t call it wrong, but it is something I left out (I am a j-school graduate and worked as a print reporter for a few years.)