Walla Walla Dawg II wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:22 pm
D-train wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:49 am
bpj wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:54 am
Should be the final nail in the coffin for people on the fence about whether or not mainstream media is there to inform us or just to control what we think.
Firing the #1 newscaster in the country at his peak is madness.
As much as people mock "getting your news from Twitter", it has easily proven to be the most accurate way to filter information for yourself.
Yeah I always laugh at the people worried about "Misinformation" Do they think they are to stupid to discern is something is true or not so they want someone else to do if for them like their parents did when they were 9 years old.
The problem is that a lot of America is that stupid. How many people believed the Russian collusion?
And any other bullshit story that was anti-Trump on MSN and CNN.
I find it pretty interesting that many left wingers tend to think that the other side is only watching FoxNews and therefore "that is all they know about" (that is almost a direct quote from one of my friends). Meanwhile, many right wingers tend to think that the other side is only watching CNN and MSNBC, and therefore they are brainwashed.
I tend to think that many people have already "chosen their side," and their viewing/reading habits follow -- to confirm and support what they already believe (i.e., looking for confirming evidence, consistent with "motivated reasoning").
Connecting this to the Tucker firing ... one of the big pieces of evidence Dominion was planning to use against Fox (to prove "actual malice") was Tucker Carlson writing in emails that, despite the knowing that 2020 election claims about Dominion were not true, Fox had to keep broadcasting these fans claims about Dominion in order to keep its viewership and market share. That is, he was implying that Fox viewers already knew what "news" they wanted to see, and if Fox wouldn't provide it, then a lot of these viewers would bail and head over to places like Newsmax and OANN.