General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes FOX News Foster Hate and Incite Violence? ;)
[font size="3"]Fox News Pretends They Never Cultivate Fear And Hate[/font]
6/20/15
by LeftOfCenter
Following the tragic shootings that occurred at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, a Democratic lawmaker from the South Carolina House pointed fingers at the hateful rhetoric of Fox News. Filling in for Megyn Kelly, Martha MacCallum attempted to repudiate this claim of fear-mongering and hate-mongering along with Howie Kurtz of Media Buzz. They were stunned, stunned I tell you, that ANYONE could ever accuse Fox News of what Todd Rutherford, House Minority Leader in South Carolina said.
RUTHERFORD: " regarding the shooter)...he did so based on some ill-gotten, wrong belief, that it's okay to do that. He hears that because he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they're really not. They use coded language, they use hate speech, They talk about the president as if he's not the president, they talk about church-goers like they're not really church-goers...He didn't just generate this out of the sky."
-snip-
The reality is that Fox 'News' has been 'thrashing hysteria' for almost two decades and have poisoned the minds of a significant segment of the population. The network is banned in Canada for being irresponsible and misleading (by the CRTC: Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission, like our FCC) as they have a law that prohibits lying in the news, or prohibited programming content that includes broadcasting false or misleading news.
read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/fox-news-pretends-they-never-cultivate
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)underpants
(183,070 posts)-Elizabeth Hasselbeck
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Is water wet?
Are Confederate flag apologists racists?
underpants
(183,070 posts)Tide goes in, tide goes out... no one knows
- Bill O'Reilly
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)STUNNED that anyone would suggest that Dylann Roof might have been inspired by their propaganda
Takket
(21,729 posts)underpants
(183,070 posts)Now ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!
- Sean Hannity
napkinz
(17,199 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)FUCKING OWN IT!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)That statement is what is truly unbelievable! To paraphrase, she's saying, Spewing hate, inciting violence? What? Who us?
And she wonders if those accusing FOX of promoting hate ever watch FOX News. Watch it? They not only watch it, they document it! She should read http://www.mediamatters.org/ for heaven's sake; she would find plenty of articles and videos. Here's just a sample:
Experts: Fox News' Coverage Contributes To Violence, Discrimination Against Transgender Community
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/06/18/experts-fox-news-coverage-contributes-to-violen/194500
Fox & Friends Exploits South Carolina Church Shooting To Call For More Guns
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/18/fox-amp-friends-exploits-south-carolina-church/204046
Fox Champions Bundy Supporters Who Threatened Violence Against Federal Agents
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/04/18/fox-champions-bundy-supporters-who-threatened-v/198947
FOX News is playing Steve Urkel!
A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)we're off to see The Grand Wizard, The Wonderful Grand Wizard Of FOX!
TexasProgresive
(12,165 posts)YES! YYYYEEEESSSS! O GOD YEEEESSSS!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Gothmog
(146,029 posts)Fox News wants it viewers to be mad and angry because that makes these viewers more loyal to Fox. If violence is a byproduct of these efforts, Fox News deems that to be acceptable
napkinz
(17,199 posts)MSNBC doesn't. CNN doesn't. (They just get sh*t wrong at times ... for example, reporting that the Supreme Court killed the individual mandate.)
"at times" ... even if it was just once, that's one time too many
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)It's just amazing to watch FOX reporters literally shocked by claims their organization fosters hate, and so dismayed when confronted with proof.
They really believe their hands are clean.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)recognize it in other posts.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,991 posts)If you're wacky and adore Bill O'Reilly and he says, "Tiller the baby killer..." Well, you know what to do...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,991 posts)...Dr. Tiller's killing.
malaise
(269,365 posts)East?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and ursines defecate in the forested areas.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Their sole reason for being is to misinform the viewer. And to generate anger toward religious and racial minorities and liberals.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Ridicule isn't enough. We need to call out the lies and rebut them accurately & loudly. This is more than a "story"
David Palumbo-Liu
June 23, 2015
There has been some speculation as to whether Dylann Roof is insane, or was so at the time of the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Certainly the amount of premeditation that went into the mass murder he planned and perpetrated should make us wary about accepting too readily the assertion that he was crazy. But while we might wonder about Roof, there is no doubt at all that for its commentary on this horrific, hate-filled crime Fox News should be indicted in the court of public opinion for its role in this and other racist acts. The network surely was conscious of what it was doing in aiding and abetting; it surely planned to furnish Roof with an alibi regarding the exact nature of his heinous crime.
Indeed, if Roof is convicted I suggest we regard Fox as an accessory after the fact: someone who assists another 1) who has committed a felony, 2) after the person has committed the felony, 3) with knowledge that the person committed the felony, and 4) with the intent to help the person avoid arrest or punishment. An accessory after the fact may be held liable for, inter alia, obstruction of justice.
I dont care to debate whether the Fox commentators are sincere when they voice their corrosive ideas, or if it is simply a matter of a herd mentality that kicks in when more than one of them is in a room and the klieg lights are on, but there is no denying that they and Fox make money off this. This is a classic example of sensationalistic yellow journalism. And its worse, because it is also ideologically driven and it perpetuates a racist ideology.
How else could Steve Doocy opine on Fox News that it was extraordinary that the Charleston church shooting was called a hate crime? How else can Fox wonder if it had a racial element to it when Roof is on record as saying during the shooting that he wanted to kill black people because they are taking over?
read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/06/23/fox_news_has_been_spewing_its_garbage_and_hatred_about_the_charleston_massacre_and_we_need_to_do_something_about_it/
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)before we got a network dedicated to making it worse.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)June 24, 2015
David Edwards
Conservative radio host Kevin Jackson told Fox News on Wednesday that liberals had created the white supremacist murderer who confessed to massacring nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C.
During a discussion about how Southern states were dealing with Confederate symbols following the South Carolina tragedy, Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked the author of Race-Pimping for his thoughts on the effort.
Well, lets hope that it eradicates racism, Martha, I mean thats essentially what the left is after, Jackson said sarcastically. You know, they never give up anything. This is such a red herring that takes away from the real issue that liberals created this kid that shot up this church.
read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/fox-guest-blames-massacre-on-affirmative-action-liberals-created-this-kid-that-shot-up-this-church/
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)At first, they report the massacre as an attack on Christians, with Elisabeth Hasselbeck asking if churches throughout the nation should be on alert for more terror attacks and if pastors should start arming themselves.
But now Republicans have come around to accepting this was a racially-motivated hate crime.
But who is to blame? What is the source of this hate?
Does FOX bother to look in the mirror?
No. Why should they. The answer is obvious.
LIBERALS!
randys1
(16,286 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Also worked for Ronnie Raygun, Bush the First, and on Ghouliani's first mayoral campaign.
What an assemblage of shitheels.
lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)They would wither up and blow away if they couldn't hate.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)alp227
(32,084 posts)samsingh
(17,607 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)Nobody takes it seriously except for their own small, loyal, and incredibly obnoxious fan base. Just like ICP, Fox News fans can be seen in public using their own coded language and products that are catered specifically for them. Also just like ICP, Fox fans spout some incredibly stupid and misleading bullshit, and have an enormous sense of pride among themselves. They're really both pretty similar when you think about it.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)we're just havin' fun
Boomerproud
(7,987 posts)They prove it every day.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)but the night is young ... who knows who will show up to defend FOX ... and how long they'll stay
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt
By Seth Ackerman 2001
Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives frequent denunciations of liberal bias in the media were part of a strategy (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is work the refs. Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time.
Rupert Murdoch at Davos (photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum)
Rupert Murdoch (photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum)
But when Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdochs 24-hour cable network, debuted in 1996, a curious thing happened: Instead of denouncing it, conservative politicians and activists lavished praise on the network. If it hadnt been for Fox, I dont know what Id have done for the news, Trent Lott gushed after the Florida election recount (Washington Post, 2/5/01). George W. Bush extolled Fox News Channel anchor Tony Snowa former speechwriter for Bushs fatherand his impressive transition to journalism in a specially taped April 2001 tribute to Snows Sunday-morning show on its five-year anniversary (Washington Post, 5/7/01). The right-wing Heritage Foundation had to warn its staffers not to watch so much Fox News on their computers, because it was causing the think tanks system to crash.
When it comes to Fox News Channel, conservatives dont feel the need to work the ref. The ref is already on their side. Since its 1996 launch, Fox has become a central hub of the conservative movements well-oiled media machine. Together with the GOP organization and its satellite think tanks and advocacy groups, this network of fiercely partisan outletssuch as the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative talk-radio shows like Rush Limbaughsforms a highly effective right-wing echo chamber where GOP-friendly news stories can be promoted, repeated and amplified. Fox knows how to play this game better than anyone.
Yet, at the same time, the network bristles at the slightest suggestion of a conservative tilt. In fact, wrapping itself in slogans like Fair and balanced and We report, you decide, Fox argues precisely the opposite: Far from being a biased network, Fox argues, it is the only unbiased network. So far, Foxs strategy of aggressive denial has worked surprisingly well; faced with its unblinking refusal to admit any conservative tilt at all, some commentators have simply acquiesced to the networks own self-assessment. FAIR has decided to take a closer look.
Coming next, drug addicted pregnant women no longer have anything to fear from the authorities thanks to the Supreme Court. Both sides on this in a moment.Bill OReilly (OReilly Factor, 3/23/01)
Foxs founder and president, Roger Ailes, was for decades one of the savviest and most pugnacious Republican political operatives in Washington, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan campaigns. Ailes is most famous for his role in crafting the elder Bushs media strategy in the bruising 1988 presidential race. With Ailes help, Bush turned a double-digit deficit in the polls into a resounding win by targeting the GOPs base of white male voters in the South and West, using red-meat themes like Michael Dukakis card-carrying membership in the ACLU, his laissez-faire attitude toward flag-burning, his alleged indifference to the pledge of allegianceand, of course, paroled felon Willie Horton.
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-most-biased-name-in-news/
napkinz
(17,199 posts)I had read a similar article though not as extensive as the one you posted ...
The Sordid History Of News Corp.'s Roger Ailes
July 22, 2011
Ailes' Troubling Record On Race
Ailes Reportedly Looked For A "Wallaceite Cab-Driver" To Bring Up Race At Town Hall. Fox News' frequent racially charged attempts to foment opposition to President Obama echo Ailes' decades-long record of stoking racial fears and biases while serving as a media consultant for Republican political campaigns. While working for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, Ailes reportedly suggested Nixon participate in a televised town hall and take a question from a "good, mean, Wallaceite cab-driver ... Some guy to sit there and say, 'Awright, Mac, what about these niggers?" The strategy, according to Nixonland author Rick Pearlstein, was to have Nixon "abhor the uncivility of the words, while endorsing a 'moderate' version of the opinion." (Nixonland, p. 331)
Ailes Helped Craft Strategy Of Linking Dukakis To Horton. Ailes also worked on George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign and helped craft the "soft on crime" strategy of linking Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis to convicted felon Willie Horton. The chief architect of that strategy, Lee Atwater, later apologized to Dukakis for saying he would "make Willie Horton his running mate," explaining that the comment "makes me sound racist, which I am not." As the campaign drew to a close, the New York Times quoted Ailes saying of the strategy: "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it." (New York Times, 10/3/88)
read more: http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/07/22/the-sordid-history-of-news-corps-roger-ailes/157744
calimary
(81,612 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)They can't fathom why they are being accused of promoting hate.
They are shocked that anyone would make a connection between the massacre in Charleston -- and other racially-motivated hate crimes by right-wingers -- and the "news" they "report."
edit: as they article says, "They were stunned, stunned ..."
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/fox-news-pretends-they-never-cultivate
Vinca
(50,342 posts)Faux is probably the least dangerous of the bunch, but they definitely contribute to it.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Vinca
(50,342 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)raison d'être
noun rai·son d'être \ˌrā-ˌzōⁿ-ˈdetrə\
: the thing that is most important to someone or something : the reason for which a person or organization exists
plural rai·sons d'être also rai·sons d'etre
\-ˌzōⁿz-\
Full Definition of RAISON D'ÊTRE
: reason or justification for existence
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)Fox doesn't directly advocate violence, but they know how to skate around that incitement.
The impressionable hear them loud and clear.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)onenote
(42,885 posts)Is the reporting on Fox News (and the opinions voiced thereon) distorted and slanted? Yes.
Could you pay me to watch Fox News? No.
But if you're going to write a piece criticizing Fox for distorted and slanted reporting, you have an obligation to research everything you write. It would have taken this writer 30 seconds to learn that the oft-repeated claim that Fox News is "banned" in Canada is completely false. Indeed, Fox News is available in Canada over satellite and cable. And while its true that Canadian communications regulations prohibits broadcasting false or misleading news, that provision only applies to Canadian broadcast stations, not to a non-Canadian, non-broadcast service such as Fox News.
Fox sucks. You don't have to make up shit to prove it.
randys1
(16,286 posts)you can get it is via satellite?
onenote
(42,885 posts)If they were Canadian. And were seeking a broadcast license, they'd probably get one. At that point, however, they'd be subject to various rules aimed at false news reporting. But to the best of my knowledge, the CRTC has never actually found any broadcaster to have violated those rules, so I don't know that it would be correct to say that Fox News would be "banned" since there isn't much precedent to inform an assessment of how the CRTC would view Fox News.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Besides the obvious.
I had no idea fox was banned in Canada.
Good to hear they are sort of...
onenote
(42,885 posts)Fox News has been expressly authorized for distribution in Canada by the CRTC with, as far as I can determine, no conditions. Contrast that with Al Jazeera (the Arabic version, not the English language version), which the CRTC also has authorized for distribution in Canada, but initially was subject to conditions because of complaints that Al Jazeera sometimes had, in the past, disseminated content deemed abusive to certain groups (e.g., anti-Semitic content).
napkinz
(17,199 posts)just so long as they still have single-payer health care
pansypoo53219
(21,016 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Gloria
(17,663 posts)which leads to denying a person's own self interest to be even on the radar.
FOX manipulates the brain...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)although shep smith seems to be unbiased compared to the others. i don't know why he stays there.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I thought that was common knowledge.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)the real subject of this thread, as I wrote in another reply, is FOX News playing "Steve Urkel" when it comes to promoting hate. ("Who, me? Did I do that?" As I wrote:
edit: as they article says, "They were stunned, stunned ..."
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/fox-news-pretends-they-never-cultivate
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)The gang also argued that racism isn't a real problem in the U.S.
June 25, 2015
JOANNA ROTHKOPF
On Thursday mornings Fox & Friends, hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isnt their fault they didnt know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist.
Hasselbeck first said, Its disappointing and its irresponsible to call racism when its not racism because it basically underscores the hate when it actually does happen
It blunts it, Kilmeade corrected.
If we were a racist nation, Barack Obama would not have been elected president of the United States twice. Its a math thing, Doocy chimed in. The three then spend upwards of three minutes defending their prior analysis that the Charleston shooting was potentially a religion-based hate crime instead of a race-based hate crime because, it happened at a church!
We were never told the nature of the bias, Doocy insisted.
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/25/fox_friends_hypocritical_reversal_we_were_never_told_the_nature_of_dylann_roofs_bias/