| − | The '''Fox News Channel''' is an [[American]] pro-war [[cable]] and [[satellite]] news aggregator, mostly commentary without any real reporting. It is owned by Fox Corporation while it invests in [[sports gambling]] and promotes that [[addiction]]. Fox News's profit model is to take advertising dollars based on attracting elderly [[conservative]] viewers ('''''average age of viewers is 68'''''<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/22/cable-news-decline-column-00136657#:~:text=As%20Los%20Angeles%20Times%20reporter,percent%20of%20the%20television%20audience.</ref>), and then plow that money into [[liberal]] causes and self-enrichment of its owners and studio-limited talking heads. It is part of a [[globalist]]-promoting media conglomerate that is fundamentally opposed to the [[conservative movement]] and [[Opposition to Donald Trump|Donald Trump]], and turned against him yet again immediately after the [[2022 midterm elections]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/10/donald-trump-on-warpath-former-president-accuses-rupert-murdoch-fox-news-of-promoting-ron-desantis/</ref> | + | The '''Fox News Channel''' is an [[American]] pro-war [[cable]] and [[satellite]] news aggregator, mostly commentary without any real reporting. It is owned by Fox Corporation while it invests in [[sports gambling]] and promotes that [[addiction]].<ref>"Fox Corporation has a stake in FanDuel, with an upcoming option to acquire nearly 19%." [https://gamblingharm.org/erin-andrews-fanduel-responsible-gaming-sponsorship-role/ GamblingHarm.org]</ref> Fox News's profit model is to take advertising dollars based on attracting elderly [[conservative]] viewers ('''''average age of viewers is 68'''''<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/22/cable-news-decline-column-00136657#:~:text=As%20Los%20Angeles%20Times%20reporter,percent%20of%20the%20television%20audience.</ref>), and then plow that money into [[liberal]] causes and self-enrichment of its owners and studio-limited talking heads. It is part of a [[globalist]]-promoting media conglomerate that is fundamentally opposed to the [[conservative movement]] and [[Opposition to Donald Trump|Donald Trump]], and turned against him yet again immediately after the [[2022 midterm elections]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/10/donald-trump-on-warpath-former-president-accuses-rupert-murdoch-fox-news-of-promoting-ron-desantis/</ref> |
| | On April 18, 2023, Fox News sold out the [[First Amendment]] by agreeing to pay an unprecedented $787.5 million<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/smartmatic-fox-news-lawsuit-dominion-settlement-complaint.html</ref> rather than defend the constitutional right to speak out on political issues. To try to save itself a few bucks, Fox News shamefully weakened First Amendment rights. On April 24, 2023, Fox News terminated one of its few genuinely [[conservative]] commentators, [[Tucker Carlson]], despite his record-high ratings. [[Dan Bongino]], the top weekend conservative host on the network, was also fired the same month. Fox News lost credibility as a result.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=DellaVigna|first1=Stefano|last2=Kaplan|first2=Ethan|date=August 1, 2007|title=The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting|url=https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/122/3/1187/1879517|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics|language=en|volume=122|issue=3|pages=1187–1234|citeseerx=10.1.1.537.1980|doi=10.1162/qjec.122.3.1187|issn=0033-5533|s2cid=16610755}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nie|first1=Norman H.|last2=Miller|first2=Darwin W., III|last3=Golde|first3=Saar|last4=Butler|first4=Daniel M.|last5=Winneg|first5=Kenneth|year=2010|title=The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market|journal=American Journal of Political Science|language=en|volume=54|issue=2|pages=428–439|doi=10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00439.x|issn=1540-5907}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Meyers|first1=Christopher|date=July 2, 2020|title=Partisan News, the Myth of Objectivity, and the Standards of Responsible Journalism|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2020.1780131|journal=Journal of Media Ethics|volume=35|issue=3|pages=180–194|doi=10.1080/23736992.2020.1780131|issn=2373-6992|s2cid=221538960}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shor|first1=Eran|year=2019|title=Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ssqu.12563|journal=Social Science Quarterly|volume=100|issue=1|pages=307–319|doi=10.1111/ssqu.12563|issn=1540-6237}}</ref> | | On April 18, 2023, Fox News sold out the [[First Amendment]] by agreeing to pay an unprecedented $787.5 million<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/smartmatic-fox-news-lawsuit-dominion-settlement-complaint.html</ref> rather than defend the constitutional right to speak out on political issues. To try to save itself a few bucks, Fox News shamefully weakened First Amendment rights. On April 24, 2023, Fox News terminated one of its few genuinely [[conservative]] commentators, [[Tucker Carlson]], despite his record-high ratings. [[Dan Bongino]], the top weekend conservative host on the network, was also fired the same month. Fox News lost credibility as a result.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=DellaVigna|first1=Stefano|last2=Kaplan|first2=Ethan|date=August 1, 2007|title=The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting|url=https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/122/3/1187/1879517|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics|language=en|volume=122|issue=3|pages=1187–1234|citeseerx=10.1.1.537.1980|doi=10.1162/qjec.122.3.1187|issn=0033-5533|s2cid=16610755}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nie|first1=Norman H.|last2=Miller|first2=Darwin W., III|last3=Golde|first3=Saar|last4=Butler|first4=Daniel M.|last5=Winneg|first5=Kenneth|year=2010|title=The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market|journal=American Journal of Political Science|language=en|volume=54|issue=2|pages=428–439|doi=10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00439.x|issn=1540-5907}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Meyers|first1=Christopher|date=July 2, 2020|title=Partisan News, the Myth of Objectivity, and the Standards of Responsible Journalism|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2020.1780131|journal=Journal of Media Ethics|volume=35|issue=3|pages=180–194|doi=10.1080/23736992.2020.1780131|issn=2373-6992|s2cid=221538960}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shor|first1=Eran|year=2019|title=Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ssqu.12563|journal=Social Science Quarterly|volume=100|issue=1|pages=307–319|doi=10.1111/ssqu.12563|issn=1540-6237}}</ref> |