Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them

Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by autoexec on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:16PM (#34825272)

Fox calls itself "Fox News". Only when they're pressed and presented with evidence that they're liars will they hide behind "That's okay, this is all just entertainment!" excuses. Their viewers don't think they're watching made up stories for entertainment. They're convinced that Fox/OAN are the only news agencies that tell the truth.

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by colluphid on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:52PM (#34826950)

sed 's/fox/CNN/Ig'

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by autoexec on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:21PM (#34828160)

CNN isn't good, but it's not even close to being equivalent. I doubt there's a single news org that doesn't let their bias slip from time to time, but let's not pretend that makes them all the same or that there aren't some much much worse than others.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/one-america-news-network/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/left/cnn-bias/

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by rbanffy on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:26PM (#34828223)

I’ve seen this false equivalency being regurgitated over and over whenever someone points out that Fox News is actually a far-right propaganda outlet.

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by pohl on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:26AM (#34834990)

That’s part of the mechanism to bolster RW propaganda: pay no attention to this serial killer over here, because the person next to him double parks.

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by Spooky23 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:34PM (#34828331)

I’m not a fan of CNN, but they do a better job at distinguishing the difference between news and editorial.

The Fox issue is they conflate the two. I used to watch alot of TV news and the actual news content was pretty good on Fox on national issues, but their affiliates were usually pretty awful.

The news product produced by the networks until circa 1999 were a superior product in every way. Cable outlets have always danced with these issues as a TV channel that says the same thing all day gets boring.

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by rbanffy on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:20PM (#34828807)

> but they do a better job

The Onion does a better job than Fox.

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by thechao on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:30AM (#34835046)

"The Onion wins Pulitzer; expresses confusion: editor says 'we were just drinking at the pub and started making shit up; we didn't know it was real!'"

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