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Monday, 11/22/2021 8:15:40 AM

Monday, November 22, 2021 8:15:40 AM

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What does it matter that the 'news side' of Fox News does real reporting when the opinion side of the shop is poisoning the well, the minds, of so very many not very sharp people?

The opinion side is about emotion, faux grievance nurturing, conspiracy theory mongering and resentment stoking; all of which effectively undermine whatever the News division is reporting.

The Fox News division owns the bar, the opinion side patrons shoot their ill-informed mouths off, say hold my beer, and start the bar fight.


This is not happening. And we think it’s dangerous to pretend it is. If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe—and act upon—it.

This isn’t theoretical. This is what actually happened on January 6, 2021.

Over the past five years, some of Fox’s top opinion hosts amplified the false claims and bizarre narratives of Donald Trump or offered up their own in his service. In this sense, the release of Patriot Purge wasn’t an isolated incident, it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend. Patriot Purge creates an alternative history of January 6, contradicted not just by common sense, not just by the testimony and on-the-record statements of many participants, but by the reporting of the news division of Fox News itself.

Indeed, the news side of Fox routinely does what it is supposed to do: It reports the truth. COVID-19 is deadly, vaccines work, Joe Biden won Arizona, the election was not stolen, January 6 was not a Deep State-orchestrated “false flag” operation but was an assault on the Capitol as part of a broader attempt to steal an election: The people who put the “news” in Fox News have reported all of these things.

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