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    11 months ago

    Man, those lawsuits must have really traumatized them for them to have changed their behavior this much. Love to see it though maybe Faux will be slightly less trash now.

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        11 months ago

        Did it ever stop being that?

        The difference will be that they’ll put more effort into this. More “Wow. There is a lot to unpack there. Here is what The President is teaching us when he says this”. Spin it as 4D chess where lowly peasants can’t truly understand the wisdom.

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            11 months ago

            If the old guy hated trump but still had corporate suck him off, why would “the new guy” matter at all?

            The fox news audience wants trump. So they get trump. fox will try to lower their liability but they aren’t going to give up even more market share to oan and the like.

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        11 months ago

        If you think the main goal of FOX News is money, you’re missing the point. If FOX really cared about money, they wouldn’t have folded so easily w/ Dominion.

        The money is just a nice side-effect of the disinformation.

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          If FOX really cared about money, they wouldn’t have folded so easily w/ Dominion.

          The Dominion settlement cost them a fortune, and they folded because they didn’t have a case. The evidence against them was devastating.

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            Yes, but their viewers weren’t told that and don’t care to hear it. Fox is a pure propaganda outfit, and whatever the “both sides” morons say, there’s no equivalent to it on the left. The settlement they reached was just the price of successfully boosting the propaganda Trump demanded from them.

            They’ll do it again as often as they have to.

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              If I recall correctly, it wiped out most of their profits for that year, it’s not something they can do again and again as often as they have to. Fox News is a public company and it’s illegal not to act in the fiduciary interests of the shareholders, that would open them up to more lawsuits.

              It was a big enough deal that they fired their most popular right-wing mouthpiece, which seems to be pretty clear evidence that they care more about the almighty dollar. They will continue spreading Republican propaganda and the worst way that’s legal instead.

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                11 months ago

                Fox News is a public company and it’s illegal not to act in the fiduciary interests of the shareholders, that would open them up to more lawsuits.

                FYI, the shareholder lawsuits just got started in September.