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Fox News should be banned!

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
They promote violence, bigotry, and greed! I think they should be banned for humanity's good.

Treat them like Islamic extremists and extremists of all kinds.

An enemy of nice polite tolerant society!
They defend the American values right of center. I suggest they not be banned.
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
They are the propaganda arm of the Republican party. They were created and funded to be so. This has been well established. When taken to court for lying on-air, they held that lying on a news broadcast was not illegal -- they won the suit.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
They promote violence, bigotry, and greed! I think they should be banned for humanity's good.

Treat them like Islamic extremists and extremists of all kinds.

An enemy of nice polite tolerant society!


Could you give an example so we can discuss it, or is this just partisan bloviation?
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
It's interesting that so many lefties have such intolerance for free speech.
They nominally advocate most traditional civil liberties, but in this one area,
they want opposing views censored. And it's not just calls for banning Fox
News.....their SJWs on campuses around the country want all slights, no
matter how minor, severely punished.

The excuse this special pleading by crying, "Fox lies!" & "Fox is propaganda!".
But this is based upon a narrow & illusory partisan perspective. Leftish sources
do the same, but favoring Dems instead of Pubs. But that goes unnoticed.
Freedom of speech is messy & vexing, but it beats having some government
aparatchik decide what is 'true', & then imposing that upon us all without dissent.

This is Americastan, goll darn it! If'n you can't take the heat without trigger
warnings.....er, content advisories.....then ya'll can move to North Korea.
Political discourse is nice & orderly there.

Note: This is the most appropriate point for someone to invoke the
false false equivalence fallacy, & link a supporting screed from Alternet.
 
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jonathan180iq

Well-Known Member
It's interesting that so many lefties have such intolerance for free speech.
They nominally advocate most traditional civil liberties, but in this one area,
they want opposing views censored. And it's not just calls for banning Fox
News.....their SJWs on campuses around the country want all slights, no
matter how minor, severely punished.

The excuse this special pleading by crying, "Fox lies!" & "Fox is propaganda!".
But this is based upon a narrow & illusory partisan perspective. Leftish sources
do the same, but favoring Dems instead of Pubs. But that goes unnoticed.
Freedom of speech is messy & vexing, but it beats having some government
aparatchik decide what is 'true', & then imposing that upon us all without dissent.

This is Americastan, goll darn it! If'n you can't take the heat without trigger
warnings.....er, content advisories.....then ya'll can move to North Korea.
Political discourse is nice & orderly there.

Note: This is the most appropriate point for someone to invoke the
false false equivalence fallacy, & link a supporting screed from Alternet.
I tend to agree with this. Instead of voicing a desire to ban Fox News, we should simply have retorts prepared to show their zaniness. It only takes a little bit of logic to corner fabricated stories into a corner.
The more they are shown to be wrong, the less people will value their information. It's as simple as that.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
I tend to agree with this. Instead of voicing a desire to ban Fox News, we should simply have retorts prepared to show their zaniness. It only takes a little bit of logic to corner fabricated stories into a corner.
The more they are shown to be wrong, the less people will value their information. It's as simple as that.

With all the hateful attention directed at Fox News don't you think if they can be shown wrong it would create an entire media outlet in itself?
 

jonathan180iq

Well-Known Member
With all the hateful attention directed at Fox News don't you think if they can be shown wrong it would create an entire media outlet in itself?
Yes, and it has.

The Colbert Report was a direct creation of this kind of stuff. Other newcomers, like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight or entire skit segments on SNL are also a product of everything that's been wrong with Fox for the last 10-15 years. The demise of MSNBC into the liberal counterpart of Fox was also a direct result of the obvious political leanings of news channels nowadays, and Fox gets credit for that.

I'm just brainstorming here but there are plenty of examples.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Yes, and it has.

The Colbert Report was a direct creation of this kind of stuff. Other newcomers, like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight or entire skit segments on SNL are also a product of everything that's been wrong with Fox for the last 10-15 years. The demise of MSNBC into the liberal counterpart of Fox was also a direct result of the obvious political leanings of news channels nowadays, and Fox gets credit for that.

I'm just brainstorming here but there are plenty of examples.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/

You do know you are listing comedians and comedy shows as your references, right? And if you think Fox caused the demise of MSNBC then it might be time to feed your unicorn.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
It's interesting that so many lefties have such intolerance for free speech.
They nominally advocate most traditional civil liberties, but in this one area,
they want opposing views censored. And it's not just calls for banning Fox
News.....their SJWs on campuses around the country want all slights, no
matter how minor, severely punished.

The excuse this special pleading by crying, "Fox lies!" & "Fox is propaganda!".
But this is based upon a narrow & illusory partisan perspective. Leftish sources
do the same, but favoring Dems instead of Pubs. But that goes unnoticed.
Freedom of speech is messy & vexing, but it beats having some government
aparatchik decide what is 'true', & then imposing that upon us all without dissent.

This is Americastan, goll darn it! If'n you can't take the heat without trigger
warnings.....er, content advisories.....then ya'll can move to North Korea.
Political discourse is nice & orderly there.

Note: This is the most appropriate point for someone to invoke the
false false equivalence fallacy, & link a supporting screed from Alternet.
It's not just a "lefties" issue as the likes of Bill Maher and Jerry Seinfeld have publicly stated that they will no longer do their routines on college campuses, and it ain't because of the "lefties".
 
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