News Media As Fan Service

<p>I&rsquo;ve never really watched FOX News very much over the years. It wasn&rsquo;t because I disagreed with their views, I just wasn&rsquo;t very interested in it. The same goes with MSNBC, again I think they have a right to air their views, I&rsquo;m just not interested in very partisan news of either the left or right.</p> <p>Having a slant to the news isn&rsquo;t a bad thing. The problem is when facts and opinion collide, or when opinion starts to challenge the newsgathering aspects of a network.</p> <p>We all now know that FOX News was quite aware that former President Donald Trump was lying by saying that he won the 2020 Presidential election. It&rsquo;s opinion celebrities knew the truth but never shared that with their viewers and chastised journalists who did challenge the lie. It&rsquo;s hard not to look at the revelation of Fox News officials knowingly lie to its audience about who won the 2020 election with a sense of anger and a sense of condescension. In many ways, it confirms everything critics believed about the cable news network and its audience for years: that it undermines democracy and that its viewers are people who are easily led to believe things that just aren&rsquo;t true.</p> <p>I think it&rsquo;s important to step back from the Schadenfreude for a moment and ask why did this happen? Why would a major news network knowingly lie to its audience and even threaten journalists at the network that did their jobs by telling uncomfortable truths?</p> <p><a href="https://dennissanders.medium.com/news-media-as-fan-service-82c96bceb0e8"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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