Fox News is entertainment masquerading as news.

Not even masquerading. They came out and stated publicly that they're an entertainment company.

To avoid having to be truthful

Brain washing masquerading as entertainment masquerading as news.

I don't know why you're being downvoted. It was stated in a court case from them that they're entertainment.

If you think about it, television has never been designed to inform or edify anyone.

Television is meant to sell ads and blanket the nations with a haze of opiates in order to keep us pacified and distracted and far too stupid to make waves.

And people blame religion for this stuff ...

Obviously fox news is politically biased in its coverage. I just dont understand how any objective observer could perceive the others (cnn, msnbc etc) as any different?

It's awfully hard to find any content on CNN or MSNBC that approaches the total shamelessness which Fox displays on a regular basis.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1895597181945725304

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1905778768511406175

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909744238621020262

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909717088241172661

Something about first two links gives me Breencast vibes.

e.g. https://youtu.be/1gKcGrxZbFA

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Breencast

They are all opinion shows but Im sure its not that hard to find examples in the opposite vein on other channels where America is described as racist, white supremacist etc (all the left-wing tropes).

Then go find them and report back.

The examples of opinion shows on msnbc/cnn attacking republicans and covering for democrats are endless and just as relentless as fox news. Rachel Maddow for example, ran the Russia collusion hoax lie for years.

Because it's not boolean

Sorry. I knew that but wasn't paying enough attention writing the comment

Literally all that's on Fox News is lies upon lies in service of the GOP. I do not hold the other channels in my heart, but there are degrees of misleadingness and partisanship.

The problem is not political bias, but disinformation.

Clumping everyone in one group is actually one of the goals of this: to get people tired of trying to figure out reality and to give up.

As obvious as it is - when you think everyone lies, liars will be the only ones who win. When you think that everyone is the same - the worst ones will win every time.

I'm not completely sure what point you are trying to make but I can assure you we get all kinds of distortions, half-truths, lies and cherry-picked narratives from channels other than Fox news too.

Fox News is less a news outlet and more a performance art piece in which actors, costumed as journalists, deliver carefully scripted outrage to an audience so thoroughly conditioned they believe they're watching journalism—when in reality, it’s more akin to a soap opera written by a political strategist and directed by the ghost of Joseph McCarthy.

The difference is what the bias tends towards. Jon Stewart made this point a decade ago, and I don't think anything has changed. Fox New is biased in partisan way – specifically protecting and advocating towards the goals of a political party.

NYT, CNN, etc are biased towards other things first (conflict, spectacle, consensus) and while the majority of their staff likely have a liberal bias, they are not actively partisan.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbtUztVctI

"they are not actively partisan"....again, no objective observer believes this. And quoting Jon Stewart would be like me quoting Tucker Carlson.

Oh? I hadn’t heard that Stewart got his company a 780+ million dollar settlement in large part because he had texts stating he knew he was lying to the public.

Someone should do something about that Stewart fellow if he keeps getting away with the stuff

I can find this (easily). Link?

I was being sarcastic. Tucker is a proven in court liar and propagandist and the person I was replying to was stating that John Stewart’s biases are equivalent in magnitude

Stewart is obviously a died-in-the-wool leftist and if you can't see that then you lack basic comprehension skills.

You seem to enjoy stating subjective, debatable opinions as objective fact without any evidence while pairing them with juvenile insults.

It's very effective.

The facts exist independent of your empty words.

I never argued otherwise. But implying that just being biased towards one side is equivalent to Tucker Carlsons level of dedication to the cause in spite of the truth is where you are wrong.

Eh, wrong is too weak. I think you fully understand the false comparison you are making and how it influences public discourse

went right over my head. oops.

I think there is a very big difference between Stewart and Tucker.

You might not agree with Stewart's principles, but he has them and will fight his own party over it. Tucker flew over to Russia to kiss Putin's behind and even Putin made fun of how bad it was. He then tried to show how awesome it was in Russia and made it obvious that he hasn't been in a grocery store in ages.

Carlson, in contrast to Stewart, is probably one of the better examples of the strength of freedom of the press in the United States.

Where Stewart has and does continue to work successfully with several mainstream media channels, Carlson is so dislikable he can only be heard because he founded his own podcast. Truly, it is a great country that has the laws protecting that man's right to keep being heard.

I believe Carlson was one of the most popular hosts on one of the most popular channels till he was sacked. Keeping your job in the mainstream media, is no badge of honour. It just means you're happy to sacrifice your independence and submit to the demands of the media biz (and mainstream groupthink).

Indeed, whether it is a badge of honor to be so professionally dislikable you can no longer hold employment in the entertainment sector under anyone but yourself is something reasonable people can disagree on. But what a great country it is that guarantees him the right to still be so self-employed!

Jon Stewart has never presented the news

Everything and everybody is politically biased. It means nothing to say that. Everyone is a liar, but it means nothing about honesty to point that out.

What is meaningful is the degree to which they are, and what else they are. I don't think we need a pedantic debate about Fox News.