Fake News is Old News.

[Rick Plant]

More fake news at Faux with hack propagandist Tucker Carlson. Yet millions of people tune in to be lied to each night. Faux and the right wing media see these people as easy marks so they use them as suckers to get high ratings so they can make huge profits. That's what it's all about. But the right wing media is destroying our democracy with these horrible lies and constant gaslighting. This isn't "news" it's far right wing propaganda.      ​

'That was the last straw': Two conservative Fox News 'mainstays' quit over Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 lie



At Fox News, far-right opinion host Tucker Carlson has not only been a supporter of Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán and promoted the racist, anti-Semitic Great Replacement theory — he has also been an apologist for the insurrectionists who violently assaulted the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 in the hope of stopping Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over then-President Donald Trump. And Carlson's coverage of January 6 is so beyond the pale that two conservative journalists, according to National Public Radio, have left Fox News because of it.

Those conservatives, NPR's David Folkenflik reports, are Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes. Goldberg is known his years as a National Review editor. And Hayes was with the now-defunct Weekly Standard, whose Bill Kristol started The Bulwark with fellow Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes following the Standard's demise.

"Two long-time conservative Fox News commentators have resigned in protest of what they call a pattern of incendiary and fabricated claims by the network's opinion hosts in support of former President Donald Trump. In separate interviews with NPR, Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg pointed to a breaking point earlier this month: network star Tucker Carlson's three-part series on the January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol that relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories to exonerate the Trump supporters who participated in the attack."

Goldberg and Hayes, Folkenflik notes, became "mainstays" of Bret Baier's "Special Report" when Fox News hired them in 2009. And together, Goldberg and Hayes started the conservative website The Dispatch.

Goldberg, interviewed by NPR, said of "Patriot Purge," Carlson's three-part series, "It's basically saying that the Biden regime is coming after half the country, and this is the War on Terror 2.0. It traffics in all manner of innuendo and conspiracy theories that I think legitimately could lead to violence. That, for me and for Steve, was the last straw."

Speaking to NPR, Hayes was vehemently critical of Fox News for airing promotional videos for Carlson's "Patriot Purge" series.

"I thought it was irresponsible to put that out into the public airwaves," Hayes told NPR. "The trailer (for the series) basically gave people the impression that the U.S. government was coming after all patriots — half of the country, in the word of one of the protagonists in the piece. And that the federal government was going to be using the tools and tactics that it used to go after Al-Qaida. And that's not happening. That's not true."

Hayes continued, "It's a narrative that's contradicted by certainly the vast collection of legal documents charging those who participated in January 6, the broad reporting by a wide variety of news outlets on what happened on January 6 then and in the time since — and contradicted in part by Fox News' own news site and the reporting that people on the news side have done."

Goldberg also told NPR, "Being a Fox contributor is kind of a brass ring in conservative and right-wing circles, and I was well-compensated. I'm not looking to be a martyr or ask for pity or any of that kind of stuff. But it's a significant financial hit, for sure. And it's also cutting yourself off from a very large audience. We don't regret the decision, but we found it regrettable that we had to make the decision."

https://www.rawstory.com/that-was-the-last-straw-two-conservative-fox-news-mainstays-quit-over-tucker-carlsons-jan-6-lies/

[Rick Plant]

Fake News is Old News.

Lately, Trump supporters are arguing that the main stream news media, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, are covering up or ignoring the plain evidence, that the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen from Trump. A huge subset of the overall Large-Secret-Enduring conspiracy, this one involving thousands of reporters. And, not just domestic outfits, but overseas ones like the BBC and Reuters.

But having we heard something similar before? Ah, yes, the Kennedy assassination. The media covering this up. Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, Rather and a host of others. JFK CTers, like Trump CTers, have no problem in readily accepting news media as being a Large-Secret-Conspiracy by itself. And being just a subset of the overall larger conspiracy. Yes, JFK CTers never used the term “Fake News”. But they follow the same concept.

The truth is, the 1930’s through the 1980’s was a golden era in American reporting. In previous generations, it was pretty bad. Very partisan. Not dedicated to going after the truth. But over a couple of generations, it was very good quality.

What caused it to go downhill? Well, with only 3 main competitors, there was no room for going for a special niche. It made more sense for all three, CBS, NBC and ABC to pursue the truth and try to out compete each other.

But, with the more cable options available, it makes financial sense to specialize in going after a target audience, like Fox News, Newsmax and OAN do. Walter Cronkite used to end his broadcast with “And that’s the way it is”. Tucker Carlson should end his with “And that’s all just what you wanted to hear”.

And so, millions of Americans get biased and even obviously false news on TV. Yes, good options are available, like the BBC. But too many turn to a bad option. Forty years ago, the available quality of the news was much better.

We all knew it, and it was revealed by the January 6th House Committee this evening. Faux Propaganda hosts had direct access to the White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. What other media outlet has their on air personalities having direct access to the President's Chief of Staff to coordinate nightly talking points? None.

Hannity and Ingraham had Meadows' personal and private cell phone number. On January 6th 2021, not only were they privately begging Meadows to have Trump publicly call off the riots and violence, they then went on the air to tell their viewers it was BLM and Antifa instead of Trump's MAGA thugs who were involved in the insurrection. Not only that, they kept broadcasting that same lie every night and their sheep viewers believe it to this very day.

They LIED. Just like they do every single night about COVID.

Faux Propaganda is State run TV and nothing more. This is the fake news. And these hacks will say nothing on the air about privately begging Meadows to their viewers. This political hack network needs to lose their broadcasting license.

Fox News Hosts, Don Jr. Pleaded With Mark Meadows to Get Trump to Call Off Insurrection: Jan. 6 Committee
“Can [Trump] make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol,” Sean Hannity texted the then-White House chief of staff
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-hosts-text-meadows-trump-jan-6-1271163/

[John Iacoletti]

The truth is, the 1930’s through the 1980’s was a golden era in American reporting. In previous generations, it was pretty bad. Very partisan. Not dedicated to going after the truth. But over a couple of generations, it was very good quality.

What caused it to go downhill? Well, with only 3 main competitors, there was no room for going for a special niche. It made more sense for all three, CBS, NBC and ABC to pursue the truth and try to out compete each other.

Then how did they ever manage to keep the president's sexual escapades a secret?

[Jerry Freeman]

Then how did they ever manage to keep the president's sexual escapades a secret?

Because people who live in glass houses just simply shouldn't