Sly Fox. Plucked some salient grafs. Read the lonnnng piece. Justin Peters Slate: "On the brink of a presidential campaign unlike any that Americans have ever seen, in advance of a general election that once again promises to be the most important one of our lifetime, it would be foolish—perhaps fatally so—to presume that Fox News is no longer capable of tipping the scales." "Trump is so venal and unfit for office that the only way to make him look good by comparison has been to indulge in a series of increasingly outlandish and indefensible theories about the left—theories that many of Fox’s more journalistically minded personalities were occasionally unwilling to endorse." "Fox News refined its approach to covering current events. The network has always aired segments of straightforward news reporting and sober commentary, and some of this material can be fairly decent. From a macroscopic perspective, though, this output is useful to Fox mostly insofar as it gives it plausible deniability against charges of partisan bias. Bret Baier, Neil Cavuto, and the rest of the network’s relatively normal anchors and reporters effectively serve as cover for the culture warriorship that has long consumed the bulk of each programming." "Relative to outdated expectations, Fox News is underperforming. Relative to the present moment, the network is crushing it. Week after week, month after month, Fox News is consistently the highest-rated cable network of them all. In the much narrower cable-news category, Fox boasts Harlem Globetrotters levels of dominance; it’s not uncommon for the channel’s ratings to be better than those of CNN and MSNBC combined." "Can Fox News persuade enough undecided voters in this group to vote for Donald Trump? Of course it can. Fox and Trump are fully invested in peddling the narrative of a nation in decline, and all that either needs to do is use their dark gifts to convince, like, 250,000 people in, like, five different states that the Sleepy Joe Crime Cartel and its democratic socialist allies have pursued unfair vendettas against Trump while turning America into an expensive, protest-riven, migrant-infested, gender-deviant crime hole. Trump cannot sell this story entirely on his own. He needs Fox News and its fair-and-balanced veneer to launder this message for the benefit of those voters who could still go either way." "The question we should be asking is whether Fox News still has the ability to affect the election... It’s pretty clear that the answer to that question is yes. It seems evident that there are not enough rabid Donald Trump supporters to guarantee a Trump victory in November, just as there are not enough die-hard Biden supporters to ensure the incumbent president a second term. What this means is that the presidential election will once again come down to turnout and messaging and those voters in a handful of states who have somehow still not yet made up their minds." Fox News Media Fox News TV #foxnews
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Justin Peters such a fine example of modern journalistic integrity and standards 🤡
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1moIn 1982 I started with Comcast in upland California. They had only about 80 employees Nationwide. At that time they were only an uplink downlink facility. We had meetings every morning at 8:30 a.m. and the control room was directly across from the meeting room. I used to sneak in there after the meeting and watch the raw footage being downloaded for the evening news. In addition there was a new service called C-SPAN which they were testing. In those days cameras had to be left on due to the fact that the tubes needed to be warm in order to operate. Many of the Congressional leaders did not realize the cameras are on. I got a very good education about how things worked watching. Also when I would watch the evening news it never came out the same as the raw footage. It gave me an entirely New perspective on how the media operates. All major broadcast News is manufactured to fit the audience they want to sell products and services. That is what all the broadcast news stations are about. They only tell you what you already believe.