Sadly, it is not just Fox News that has made the claim that their shows are not news. In the same year, Rachel Maddow’s lawyers successfully argued that her program is also not news.
Absolutely. It all started with Ted Turner and CNN. He very obviously viewed news as entertainment. Every story, no matter how small, was announced as Breaking News.
This is a bit of the classic “both sides being the same” argument. The first article you linked even calls it out.
In the Fox case, Carlson was presenting his own narrative, not even one extrapolating from known facts.
Maddow was like “hey this journalist is working for Putin and writing for OAN. OAN is Russian propaganda.” When in reality, the journalist in question wrote for Sputnik News, which is affiliated with the Russian government. Granted it is a bit of a stretch to say all of OAN is Russian propaganda.
Carlson, on the other hand, just completely made up a story about Karen McDougal blackmailing Trump. A completely made up story.
So yeah, I wouldn’t go saying both sides are the same here.
Hell, they did in the past when FOX News was banned back in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies#Obama_administration_conflict_with_Fox_News
They relatively recent consider themselves not as news, but entertainment
Only relatively.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye
Sadly, it is not just Fox News that has made the claim that their shows are not news. In the same year, Rachel Maddow’s lawyers successfully argued that her program is also not news.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/23/san-diego-judge-dismisses-oans-10-million-defamati/
And they were both telling the unvarnished truth for once. Billionaire-owned media aren’t reliable sources for news.
Absolutely. It all started with Ted Turner and CNN. He very obviously viewed news as entertainment. Every story, no matter how small, was announced as Breaking News.
This is a bit of the classic “both sides being the same” argument. The first article you linked even calls it out.
Maddow was like “hey this journalist is working for Putin and writing for OAN. OAN is Russian propaganda.” When in reality, the journalist in question wrote for Sputnik News, which is affiliated with the Russian government. Granted it is a bit of a stretch to say all of OAN is Russian propaganda.
Carlson, on the other hand, just completely made up a story about Karen McDougal blackmailing Trump. A completely made up story.
So yeah, I wouldn’t go saying both sides are the same here.
There is no “both sides” in for-profit news media. There’s only corporations figuring out which the most profitable demographic for them is.
Yep, it’s not Fox in general, that was only about Tucker’s show.
No they don’t. They just say that for legal reasons.