Why doesn't Fox News fight back against Media Matters?

Well actually it goes to the left's willingness to draft any level of ignorance and emotional appeal into their agenda ever increasing control over people's lives.

 

Trump and FOX have an obvious symbiotic relationship. Sometimes it gets pretty humorous. The Einsteins on FOX and Friends came up with a doozie when they invented the story of caravans of SUVs filled with illegal aliens heading for the U.S. border. Trump repeated the nonsense in one of his famous tweets minutes later. Hannity and FOX and Friends have directly shaped Trump's domestic and international policies as he responds to those "experts."

 

Ummmmm . . . to these leftists the Communist Manifesto and Mao Tse Tung's little red books are their holy Bibles; even if they refuse to admit it. Most of them are good little Marxist drones at this point. Most of them would deny it. I find that grotesquely amusing. As for Fox News and Soros created Media Matters; Media Matters is almost wholly funded by leftist organizations, and so there is no chance that any of their money sources will in kind vanish. Fox on the other hand is funded by advertisers, whom can be stampeded. Were Fox to in turn target Media Matters then all it would be doing is legitimizing a leftist Chihuahua sized ankle biter as a Wolf Hound.

 

So, this caravan doesn't exist? https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/americas/mexico-migrant-caravan/index.html Or is the SUV the only part you find that is nonsense?

 

From your link

t's become an annual tradition, and getting publicity has always been a goal for this and other so-called "caravans" that periodically make their way through Mexico.

 

SUV -- and the hysteria. I should have more clear. My bad.

 

As long as Fox does what it does, Media Matters will not lack for material.

Iies, propoganda, appeals to ignorance, xenphobia and racist dog whistles are all part of the Fox formula.

Pointing them out, and documenting the how and what of Fox's distortions and lies has been a constant source of material for Media Matters.

The AM rigth wing talk radio screamers and trash bloggers provide even more grist for the mill.

Of course, if you had the slightest idea what you're talking about, you'd know that MM doesn't carry advertising.

 

Except the story was true.

 

They could do what you suggest but George Soros is the funder of media matters, and he completely agrees with the nutters at media matters.

So FoxNews cant use the same intimidation tactics the left uses.

 

George Soros did not found Media Matters. Not that anyone expected you to actually know that.

 

And this is THE most disturbing fact of all. Fox News is essentially dictating national policy. Who the fu** voted for Fox News as an elected official in Nov 2016?

Tell me this is not a corporate coup by Murdoch!

 

Yea...that's not let emotion have anything to do with our kids getting slaughtered in their schools

 

Emotion is directionless. It solves nothing and only causes more problems down the road. Just doing things to be doing them is idiotic. They banned guns in England the latest home office report shows that almost all crime has increased since that time including gun crime. The same pattern is pretty much following in Australia. If there was a magic silver bullet for the ending of school violence I'd be all for it but no such magic bullet exists because human beings are what they are for better or for worse.

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/4/16418754/gun-control-washington-post

 

Sorry Vox response isn't credible. Or Accurate, The British hoe office has released at least two different data sets showing that all crime including gun crime is up since the ban. This is exactly what logic dictates should happen. When you pass legislation that makes the world safer for criminals criminals will do what criminals do which is whatever they damn well please. Crime is after all an essentially mercenary affair and if you rmove the inherent possibility that the home owner may confront you with a gun if you break into a house you are going to be less likely to invade that house. Note except for our most zealous gun control cities crime has fallen precipitously in the US since two events happened in the mid nineties, these two events were the restoration of three strikes laws and the establishment of shall issue concealed and carry licenses nearly nation wide.

It is really simple in England and Australia, after gun bans were effected crime rose. In the US no guns were banned,concealed and carry laws were liberalized and Crime fell all crime dropped and Homicide not including suicide fell by half.

 

Don't look for FOX to moderate its bias, language, lying, and misinformation. This is what the top brass at FOX want and it ain't about to change. They aren't dumb, they know FOX news is the National Enquirer of cable, and that's a-okay. Why do they do this? Market segmentation and ratings.

 

Threatening to boycott advertisers should be illegal or tort harassment.

Free speech is about spreading ideas. When the sole point of the idea is to harm someone, the progibition of that speech may pass strict scrutiny, even if the speech is true. If you tell a murderer where someone is hiding, the truth value does not make it free speech.