More FOX News Lies & Propaganda
Sean Hannity gets Busted by Keith Olbermann for making False claim against President Obama claiming that President Obama said Insurance Executives are “Bad People”.
Fox News Coverage of (Trump) Coronavirus vs. (Obama) Ebola
What If Fox Covered Trump the Way It Covered Obama?
Sean Hannity was all for NSA surveillance when Republican George W. Bush was president, but accused President Obama of NSA surveillance snooping and claimed it’s a violation of the 4th Amendment. More proof Hannity is not fair or balanced and engages in Political Hackery.
Title from YouTube: “Fox Gets Busted Again & Again”
Title from YouTube: “Sean Hannity Confesses Using Fake Footage: “Jon Stewart Was Right!”
How Fox News evolved into a propaganda operation
A media scholar on the dangerous evolution of Fox News.
Per the above article; “A recent piece by the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer is the latest to pose this question. Back in 2017, the New Republic’s Alex Shephard floated a similar argument, writing that “Donald Trump is treating Fox News like state TV.”
Even Bret Baier, a lead anchor at Fox News, addressed the claims in a 2018 interview with the New Yorker, saying it “pains” him to hear that the cable news channel has become “state TV” for the Trump administration.
There’s plenty of evidence to support the argument. Trump constantly watches Fox News, tweets out claims he hears on the network, reportedly speaks regularly with Sean Hannity, and gives the majority of his interviews to Fox News. World leaders as well as members of Congress quickly learned that one of the best ways to communicate a message to Trump is to say it on Fox News”.
Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
It’s not just misinformation gained from too many hours listening to Fox News, either.
Per the above article: “Why are conservatives so susceptible to misinformation? The right wing’s disregard for facts and reasoning is not a matter of stupidity or lack of education. College-educated Republicans are actually more likely than less-educated Republicans to have believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim and that “death panels” were part of the ACA. And for political conservatives, but not for liberals, greater knowledge of science and math is associated with a greater likelihood of dismissing what almost all scientists believe about the human causation of global warming.
Part of the problem is widespread suspicion of facts—any facts. Both mistrust of scientists and other “experts” and mistrust of the mass media that reports what scientists and experts believe have increased among conservatives (but not among liberals) since the early ’80s. The mistrust has in part, at least, been deliberately inculcated. The fossil fuel industry publicizes studies to confuse the climate change debate; Big Pharma hides unfavorable information on drug safety and efficacy; and many schools in conservative areas teach students that evolution is “just a theory.” The public is understandably confused about both the findings and methods of science. “Fake news” deliberately created for political or economic gain and Donald Trump’s claims that media sites that disagree with him are “fake news” add to the mistrust.
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But, the gullibility of many on the right seems to have deeper roots even than this. That may be because at the most basic level, conservatives and liberals seem to hold different beliefs about what constitutes “truth.” Finding facts and pursuing evidence and trusting science is part of liberal ideology itself. For many conservatives, faith and intuition and trust in revealed truth appear as equally valid sources of truth.
Psychologists have repeatedly reported that self-described conservatives tend to place a higher value than those to their left on deference to tradition and authority. They are more likely to value stability, conformity, and order, and have more difficulty tolerating novelty and ambiguity and uncertainty. They are more sensitive than liberals to information suggesting the possibility of danger than to information suggesting benefits”.
Chris Wallace breaks silence on why he left Fox
CNN’s Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter react to Chris Wallace’s interview with the New York Times on why he left Fox.
CNBC host Shepard Smith discusses his time at Fox News and why he eventually left.
The News division which was headed by Shep Smith, provided legitimate, unbiased news reporting. It’s completely separate from the opinion based shows such as Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro, etc. Shep Smith frequently criticized Donald Trump.
In October 2019, within days of Attorney General William Barr meeting with head honcho Rupert Murdoch, Shep Smith announced his resignation.
Ex-Fox Employee Tells All
Ex-Fox Employee talks about his time working at Fox & for Bill O’Reilly. Also how doing “Fair and Balanced” reporting was a running joke at Fox and how he personally witnessed their airing stories which were unconfirmed and false.
CNN’s Brian Stelter ponders about the future of Fox News and the Murdoch family as its patriarch, Rupert Murdoch, approaches 90 years old.
Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, in the Fox TV control room. (Helayne Seidman)
Roger Eugene Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush and for Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign (1989).
Per an article at gawker, a memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring Pro GOP stories to television networks around the country. (see gawker complete story)
Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the “prejudices of network news” and deliver “pro-administration” stories to heartland television viewers.
The memo—called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News”— is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
The documents—drawn mostly from the papers of Nixon chief of staff and felon H.R. Haldeman and Bush chief of staff John Sununu—reveal Ailes to be a tireless television producer and joyful propagandist. He was a forceful advocate for the power of television to shape the political narrative, and he reveled in the minutiae constructing political spectacles—stage-managing, for instance, the lighting of the White House Christmas tree with painstaking care. He frequently floated ideas for creating staged events and strategies for manipulating the mainstream media into favorable coverage, and used his contacts at the networks to sniff out the emergence of threatening narratives and offer advice on how to snuff them out—warning Bush, for example, to lay off the golf as war in the Middle East approached because journalists were starting to talk. There are also occasional references to dirty political tricks, as well as some positions that seem at odds with the Tea Party politics of present-day Fox News: Ailes supported government regulation of political campaign ads on television, including strict limits on spending. He also advised Nixon to address high school students, a move that caused his network to shriek about “indoctrination” when Obama did it more than 30 years later.
The Idea Behind Fox News Channel Originated in the Nixon White House
“A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News” (read it here) is an unsigned, undated memo calling for a partisan, pro-GOP news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House. Aimed at sidelining the “censorship” of the liberal mainstream media and delivering prepackaged pro-Nixon news to local television stations, it reads today like a detailed precis for a Fox News prototype. From context provided by other memos, it’s apparent that the plan was hatched during the summer of 1970. And though it’s not clear who wrote it, the copy provided by the Nixon Library literally has Ailes’ handwriting all over it—it appears he was routed the memo by Haldeman and wrote back his enthusiastic endorsement, refinements, and a request to run the project in the margins.
The 15-page plan begins with an acknowledgment that television had emerged as the most powerful news source in large part because “people are lazy” and want their thinking done for them:
Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
With that in mind, the anonymous GOP official urged the creation of a network “to provide pro-Administration, videotape, hard news actualities to the major cities of the United States.” Aware that the national television networks were the enemy, the writer proposed going around them by sending packaged, edited news stories and interviews with politicians directly to local television stations.
This is a plan that places news of importance to localities (Senators and representatives are newsmakers of importance to their localities) on local television news programs while it is still news. It avoids the censorship, the priorities, and the prejudices of network news selectors and disseminators.
This was before satellite, so the idea was that this GOP news outlet would record an interview with a Republican lawmaker in the morning, rush the tape to National Airport via truck, where it is edited into a package en route, and flown to the lawmaker’s district in time to make the local news. Local stations, the writer surmised, would be happy to take the free programming. The plan is spectacularly detailed—it was no idle pipe dream. The writer estimated that it would cost $310,000 to launch and slightly less than that to run each year, sketched out a 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule with shooting times, editing times, flight times, and arrival times, and estimated that the editing truck—”Ford, GMC, or IHS chassis; V8 engine; 5 speed transmission; air conditioning; Weight: 22,000GVW”—could be “build from chassis in 60 days.” In other words, they were serious.
In a Rolling Stone story, Tim Dickinson tells how onetime Nixon henchman Roger Ailes built Fox News into the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Ailes has amassed enormous power in the Republican Party – and the country – by pioneering a new form of political campaign, one in which Fox functions as a “giant soundstage created to mimic the look of a news operation,” disguising GOP talking points as journalism.
There can be no doubt that Roger Ailes dream has been realized in Fox News
On the day after the president gave his State of the Union address in January, Fox News swung into full campaign mode, hammering Obama with five GOP talking points that have come to define the budget debate. The baldfaced distortions came not just from a parade of Republican politicians – who outnumbered Democrats by 3 to 1 – but from the network’s own anchors. Click here to read the entire article at Rolling Stone.
More Examples of Fox Misleading Information
14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans
5 Times Fox Got Debunked Immediately on the Spot
Fox Pundits Anti-Obama Bias on full display in this video
The above video proves Fox Pundits are the Enemy of the American People by not being Fair, Balanced & truthful & lying by omission of the facts.
Example of how Fox has engaged as a GOP Operative
It’s this writers opinion that worst offenders at Fox who peddle “Fake News” and fail to report the truth (often by omission of the facts) are Fox & Friends, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Judge Jeanie Pirro. They have behaved like Propaganda Ministers for Trump, who has according to fact finders, has made over 30,000 false, misleading statements and lies.
By lying to their audience and failing to always report the truth, Fox News has done massive damage to the United States of America, causing hate and division, with no end in sight.
If these people really cared about this country and democracy they would not be standing up for Trump or Republicans, who have proven to be LAWLESS.
Fox News Hypocrisy on White Nationalist Terrorists Vs Muslim Terrorists
I watched Fox News every day for 44 months – here’s what I learned
As a media critic, I’ve had an intimate look at the channel’s morning show – and how it poisons the national conversation
Per the above article; “At Fox News, opinion is king – not news
Fox & Friends’ main hosts – Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade – are a consistent train wreck of shameless hackery, even managing to turn a report about Trump’s $1bn in business losses into a glowing endorsement of his bold, wealthy brilliance”.
