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I know that some people had a bit of optimism that Fox would shift to more news/less crazy conspiracy theory stuff after the election... I hate to say I told you so... https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1351642249533267969
I wish that Fox would have heeded @Sulliview's suggestion that they "go ahead and lean right ... But do it with an emphasis on reporting and strictly within the realm of truth." https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-news-reinvent-post-trump/2020/11/30/1915059e-3313-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html
Instead, looks like my worry was the accurate one, that Fox's *CORRECT* call of Arizona going to Biden would set off a race to the bottom: https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-medias-civil-war-setting-race-bottom
People who have been loyal Fox viewers aren't typically people who are a deranged Tucker Carlson segment away from switching to CNN or MSNBC. Rather, the threat of losing viewers has come from the fringe right. https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-medias-civil-war-setting-race-bottom
It's been clear since the election that Fox's strategy was going to be to move more to the hard right. Just yesterday it came out that Maria Bartiromo would be doing a trial run for a primetime Fox show. Today, she floated an unhinged conspiracy theory. https://www.mediamatters.org/maria-bartiromo/maria-bartiromo-baselessly-alleges-democrats-infiltrated-two-weeks-ago-and-put-maga
Increasingly, Fox has been adding clips from Tucker Carlson into its "straight news" programming. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-becoming-foxs-news-side-assignment-editor
Here's something @MattGertz wrote recently: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-throws-towel-its-news-side
The idea that Fox wasn't doing enough to help Trump (let's set aside the fact that it's deeply unethical for a news organization to specifically try to "help" a candidate) was ridiculous.
In the 2 weeks leading up to election day, Fox covered the bizarre, hard-to-follow Hunter Biden laptop story for 36 hours. That's *a lot*. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-has-covered-unverified-hunter-biden-email-story-more-36-hours-lead-election-day
In October, Fox just started airing Trump's rallies uninterrupted. Over 9 days, Fox ran 9 hours of Trump rallies live. That's a lot of free media https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-has-aired-over-9-hours-trump-rallies-last-9-days
In the 2 weeks following Fox's (again, correct) call of the presidency for Biden, the channel cast doubt on the results nearly 800 times. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/2-weeks-after-it-called-election-fox-news-cast-doubt-results-nearly-800-times
Anyway, a Newsmax-ified Fox News is bad for humanity.
Things are bad. They can get worse.
Things are bad. They can get worse.
