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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 12:33 AM Jan 2017

We Should Convince Medimatters To Calculate The Amount of Time Fox News Dedicated To Reading

We should convince Mediamatters to calculate the amount of time Fox News spent GLEEFULLY and faithfully reading Russian-hacked emails about Hillary Clinton vs. other networks. I bet it'll look a lot like the Benghazi graph.

We know that Russians hacked DNC emails and leaked them to damage Clinton.
We now know that they did this specifically to throw the election to Trump.
They knew that in order to do this, they'd need help from 'friendly' or 'useful' third parties. Wikileaks was one of them. They knew FOX would be another.

I'd like to see just how much Fox News acted as a MOUTHPIECE FOR THE KGB in GRAPHICAL FORM.

Other news agencies didn't spend nearly as much time reporting on Clinton emails because:
A) They couldn't be verified, and other networks actually CARE about accuracy.
B) They were mostly just trashy gossip, and nothing to do with actual policy. (Off-color jokes and trash talk.)
C) And most importantly, THEY KNEW they would just be doing the bidding of a hostile foreign power.

Fox knew all these things, too, but devoted hours and hours to them anyway.

So, does anybody have any data on the amount of time Fox News devoted to doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin vs. other networks?

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We Should Convince Medimatters To Calculate The Amount of Time Fox News Dedicated To Reading (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jan 2017 OP
How about the allegations that Fox and other RW news outlets carried RT propaganda? ffr Jan 2017 #1
Wow! Thanks for that! nt TrollBuster9090 Jan 2017 #2
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2017 #3

ffr

(22,670 posts)
1. How about the allegations that Fox and other RW news outlets carried RT propaganda?
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 12:44 AM
Jan 2017

That's the headline story of the year. I'm not saying it, the intelligence community just said it. Page 14.

Where have you seen these RT headlines before?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028439946

The declassified CIA, FBI and NSA's report today made the connection. Fox News and the RW carried those RT propaganda headlines verbatim. Some were fake news, but all were designed to accomplish two goals in the eyes of impressionable voters:

1) Hurt Clinton, undermine her credibility, paint her as corrupt and untrustworthy
2) Help Trump, paint him as the unfairly treated underdog, promote him as a candidate.

11.2 million views of fake news propaganda rebroadcast by Fox News and right wing outlets that came directly from the Kremlin.

THE RIGHT WING MEDIA WAS IN ON IT TOO!

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