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In the weeks leading up to the US midterm elections, the message from Fox News was clear: violent crime is surging, cities are dangerous hellscapes and Democrats are responsible.
With the vote over, however, the rightwing news channel appeared to decide things werent that bad after all and decreased its coverage of violent crime by 50% compared with the pre-election average.
Media Matters for America, a media watchdog, found that each week from Labor Day until the Friday before the Tuesday 8 November vote, the network averaged 141 segments on crime across weekdays. The blanket crime coverage matched the Republican partys efforts to depict violent crime as out of control and portray Democrats as responsible.
In the week of the midterms, however, once voting was over, Fox News aired just 71 segments on violent crime, Media Matters reported.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/crime-coverage-on-fox-news-halved-once-us-midterms-were-over/ar-AA14xslv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=777ac9e0b15d4e9fa193ee9dc58ebe6a
Augiedog
(2,549 posts)underpants
(182,990 posts)All Fox all day. The ladies are going shopping. I get to put up moms tree. Im going to just enjoy it as much as possible
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)decorating to honor the 'Prince of Peace' while hearing the voice of hate........
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)The last time I had to endure that was at my late parent's residence when dad absolutely had a cow if he ever missed that ugly jackass Bill O-Really's show. Not that this made sense but he insisted the damn teevee had to be on Fox all damn day so he didn't miss it. I didn't have to do anything because mom would grab the remote, change the channel to the classic movie channel while he was up to the bathroom, and he'd promptly fall to a deep snooze in his chair, hours later to pop awake and change it back to that damn noise.
It only brought up argument to say anything about it. I adopted the same method here and there.
keroro gunsou
(2,223 posts)Bluetooth linked to a device with good music is my recommendation
GreenWave
(6,797 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)congress doesn't want to deal with. but they will stress biden's laptop etc
fox is a retailer, talk radio is the wholesaler of the alt reality and media matters can now use AI to start digitizing it and start figuring out fox and social media are not the primary media problem the US has
Walleye
(31,133 posts)Its not even subtle
IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)gas prices! inflation! Dems are coming for your guns. Be afraid and angry at those damn democrats
So are foreigners stealing our jobs or does nobody want to work anymore?
sop
(10,284 posts)dutch777
(3,051 posts)Slow learners I guess
Boomerproud
(7,976 posts)AllyCat
(16,259 posts)They were crowing about $5/gallon gas still and JB I did that stickers on gas pumps being against the law. I mentioned we passed $2.98/gal on the way down and the stickers arent illegal, but defacement of private property.
Fox Noise interviewed woman gas station owner asking about what run ins with the law she was having. She said none. Its a fine imposed by the franchise. They didnt listen and kept calling it a law.
Stepdad didnt listen either. He knows we hate Fox and turned it off until we were leaving.
paleotn
(18,003 posts)i.e. kicked to the curb. Take away their journalist status. Sure, a GQP admin would do the same to mainstream media outlets, but so what? They call anything but Fux News "fake news" anyway and wouldn't mind shutting them down a la Vlad Putin. I don't see why Dems even bother going on Fux News. It serves no real purpose. Reasoning with the cult leaves no perceptible impression on them. It's a waste of time.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,797 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)Coincidence? I think not.
marmar
(77,113 posts)I was in Jamaica on vacation right after the election. Wednesday I stopped at the gas station I normally go to in Dearborn and the price was down 85 cents pg from my last fillup before vacation.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)They should all be nationalized IMO.
marmar
(77,113 posts)Zambero
(8,978 posts)Nancy is stepping down. MAGAts will hereby chill, until new scare tactics can be drummed up and/or resurrected!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The network insists that its focus on crime is a function of crime, not of politics. Sure.
And regarding future Fox coverage:
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)After the repukes won no mention of Ebola again on Fox.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,766 posts)No need for scare-mongering anymore.
hay rick
(7,654 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)LGBTQ hate?
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,678 posts)They only sell the drugs they are pushing and they are only pushing to get conservative/repubs elected to do their bidding. and then NONE of that matters and they jump back to how bad Hunter Biden is for the country
A sickening circular firing squad if I have ever seen one.
Before Fox, news was much tamer and that was a good thing
Rhiannon12866
(206,601 posts)Fox News prime-time shows featured discussion of violent crime in more than 1 out of every 9 segments over the last few months, according to a Media Matters review. The networks stars are telling their viewers that Democrats are to blame for rising crime as they seek to leverage the bogus narrative to help Republicans triumph in the midterm elections.
Aussie105
(5,478 posts)Teleprompter writers follow the directive, talking heads read it out.
Trace it back and you will see you-know-who pulling the strings.
Too bad many people just suck it up. Short memories and no logical thinking skills are pre-requisite to be a Fox viewer.
Fox thinktank currently discussing the next topic - won't be guns unfortunately.