gregorum, 4 days ago to usa in Biden repeats false claim that inflation was at 9% when he took office after being called out last week | Fox News

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Roger Ailes was the founding CEO. Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after many accusations of sexual harassment. Jay Wallace became president of the network, and Suzanne Scott, the CEO of FNC, as of May 2018. She will report to Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch. Lachlan Murdoch is the executive chairman and co-chairman of News Corp and 21st Century Fox (FOXA).

In October 2018, Fox News added to their terms of use, “Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment.” This has led some to declare that Fox News is now an entertainment company and does not have to uphold journalistic standards. This is not true.

On 6/13/2020, Fox News ran digitato coverages in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

On 12/12/2021 – 18-year, veteran journalist Chris Wallace resigned from Fox News and joined CNN.

On 12/13/2021, it was reported that on January 6th, 2021, several Fox TV personalities texted Trump’s Chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to encourage Trump to stop the Capitol Riot, which contradicted their reporting later that evening that Antifa was involved in a false flag.

In 2022, Fox News was sued for Defamation by Dominion Voting Systems for 1.6 billion dollars due to alleged false claims and conspiracy theories related to the companies voting machines in the 2020 presidential election. According to the lawsuit’s court docket, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeannine Pirro, and former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs will be deposed.

On 04/18/2023, Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit for $787 million where they were accused of promoting false claims and conspiracy theories against Dominion Voting Systems during the 2020 elections. A statement by Fox reads as follows:

“We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems,” the network said Tuesday in a statement. “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.”

On 4/24/2023, Tucker Carlson, the top-rated prime-time news host, left Fox News for undisclosed reasons.

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Rupert Murdoch is the owner and a board member of News Corp 21st Century Fox. According to Reuters, James Murdoch (son) was chief executive of 21st Century Fox and left in May 2018. Lachlan (the other son of Murdoch) and Rupert Murdoch will serve as the new Fox co-chairman. Revenue analysis can be found at Investopedia, and income reports here.

Analysis

According to a Pew Research Center survey, “Fox News was the main source for 40% of Trump voters” during the 2016 election. Further, another Pew Survey indicates, “When it comes to choosing a media source for political news, conservatives orient strongly around Fox News. Nearly half of consistent conservatives (47%) name it as their main source for government and political news.” Further, a Reuters institute survey found that 35% of respondents trust their news coverage and 46% do not, ranking them #11 in trust among the major USA news providers.

Fox News typically looks at the issues from a conservative perspective. Also, it has several on-air personalities that are strong supporters of former President Trump, such as Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson (former), Laura Ingraham, and Dan Bongino (former); thus, during the Trump Presidency, FNC typically skewed conservative as there was less criticism of Trump.

Bias

In review, FNC publishes stories with emotionally loaded headlines such as Biden says ‘MAGA Republicans’ threaten democracy as he and Dems crank up anti-Trump rhetoric ahead of midterms and White House defends slamming half of America as ‘semi-fascist,’ ‘terrorists’ despite Biden’s unity pledge.

After the 2020 election, Fox News TV personalities advanced false and unproven conspiracy theories regarding election fraud Questions linger over the Left’s plot against Donald Trump. Numerous audits and studiesreveal that election fraud during the 2020 election was average and had no impact on the election’s outcome. Further, as noted above, they promoted conspiracy theories related to Dominion Voting Machines.

TV personalities also advanced false claims and conspiracies on the following issues: No guns at the capitol riot (False), Trump authorized the National Guard for the Capitol Riot (No Evidence), FBI orchestrated insurrection(False), The USA funds Biolabs in Ukraine(False), Numerous instances of Covid-19 vaccine disinformation (False). Further, according to Politifact, FNC has also been deemed the least accurate cable news source.

Finally, Fox News also features fact-based news reporting by beat reporters and some daytime TV hosts. However, this credible news reporting is buried between TV programming promoting Right Leaning propaganda and false claims. The website is similar, with credible news stories between hyper-partisan questionable content from their nighttime TV hosts.

In general, Fox News’ beat reporters produce low-biased fact-based news; however, the reporting on their entertainment-based news programming frequently promotes propaganda and false claims that render Fox News Questionable.

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Aux, 6 days ago to cat in Gotta Catch 'Em All!

My last cat was #11 - The Satan Himself. He controlled the whole village, ate food in every house and trolled all the big dogs non stop. He also brought fresh fish from the sea back home from time to time. And yet he was a total sweetheart towards me, he greeted me at the door every day when I came back from home.

nokturne213, 6 days ago to bloomcounty in 11 May 1981

I am unsure that is Binkley. In the next strip we meet Binkley and he is #11, while this guy is #10.

RvTV95XBeo, 13 days ago to games in Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2

The refunds may have hurt, but what hurt more was the fact that in the last week HD2 went from #1/2 on the Steam global top sellers to #11. The big red “Overwhelmingly Negative” next to a title is a huge turnoff to new buyers.

Some executive somewhere has a chart showing daily sales numbers and watched them fall off a cliff in the last week.

wjs018, 16 days ago to anime in Top 10 Anime of the Week #04 - Spring 2024 (Anime Corner)

It finally happened, Date a Live got the top spot this week. Overall, a lot of green on the board as both Kaiju No. 8 and Delicious in Dungeon fell a number of spots. Overall this season, I have been surprised that Slime hasn’t done better as I thought it was fairly popular. This week it is just off the chart at #11, but it has loitered in the low teens all season.

GrymEdm, 23 days ago to 196 in Words to live by rule

“Rule #11: No more ranking animals by probable elasticity of orifices.” Stop raining on my parade Discord. It’s an engaging topic and all rankings are theoretical and cruelty-free.

hardkorebob, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to programmer_humor in Aaargh....my eyes......my eyes......

I write python in shell. Literally. I made a shell function file (pnk.lang) that prints correct python code. The capital letters in the shell function’s name, my Tkinter IDE turns into color as you see above. So I let the color (capital letter) abstract away indentation for my brain. The second letter is for category of python code according to me. Again using color to allow me to think. I dont like Python syntax. I looks ugly to me. So I made this tool to make coding colorful, succint and fun for me. It reduces my eye strain among many other personal benefits.

S=self

E=echo

#indentation

#Z=“” #0

Y=" " #3

X=“$Y$Y " #7

W=”$Y$X " #11

V=“$Y$W " #15

U=”$Y$V " #19

YDfd() {

<span style="color:#323232;">typeset z="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    typeset nn="$2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">typeset cc="$3" 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if [[ $z == z ]]; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$E "$Y def $nn(${S}$cc):"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$E "$Y def $nn($cc):"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fi
</span>

}

YDdefe() {

<span style="color:#323232;">typeset fn="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">YDfd z $fn ,e=None
</span>

}

YDdefe addNew

XIcv $ap Pnk

XFpk $ap 1 both

XFfc zz pw.add $ap

turns into

<span style="color:#323232;">def addNew(self,e=None):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    self.appinstance = Pnk(self,)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    self.appinstance.pack(expand=1,fill="both",padx=2,pady=2,)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    self.pw.add(self.appinstance)
</span>