Fox News is in court again -- well, still -- facing off against a voting-machine company. What, you thought it was over, and that they'd settled out of court for a staggering sum?
That was Dominion. This is Smartmatic, and it ain't over yet. Lawyers and PR flacks from both sides are talking tough and the shockingly cynical comments from Fox on-air talent and others that came out in the run-up to the Dominion settlement are getting another run-though.
Will Fox blink? Will Smartmatic prevail if the case goes to trial? I don't know. I do know it's all about eyeballs and the relentless pursuit of them -- and the ad dollars they bring -- by Fox News. If you were expecting any Edward R. Murrow-like pronouncements of journalistic ideals, or even partisan flag-waving like the newspaper magnates of old, forget it.
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1 year ago
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Tangent: Being vaguely aware of Edward R. Murrow as some sort of legendary character, I read the speech. Wow. I'm embarrassed to say I had to exercise some underused brain cells to absorb it. We appear to desperately need folks like Murrow and Eisenhower.
Here's hoping Fox gets justice, whatever the form.
Murrow "...the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe". Probably true in Murrow's day; definitely not true today. In his day, publicizing nonsense required at least a modicum of infrastructure and investment-a small radio station, an independent newspaper...
Today, any idiot with a keyboard can spread their vile ignorance across the globe in seconds. Murrow was the product of a society-and its standards and values-which no longer exists.
Ken, you had better pray it still exists, or we're cooked. I think you can sell our people some pretty awful bullshit, especially with the right packaging, but a narrow majority of Americans still begin to recognize the smell and recoil from it, at least by the second box.
I'm literally counting on it, hanging on by sheer force of will instead of retiring. I don't speak Canadian well enough to pass for a native and I'm too old for such a big change -- but an irrevocably Trumpized U.S. is not a place I can safely retire in: I own too many books and way too many contrary opinions. The mid-terms will tell the tale and I have to manage until at least then. If I can.
Things have been just as bad, if not worse through our history. The political hucksters, wannabe tyrants, power grabs, yellow press, radical philosophies- all of those were happening since the ink was dry on the Constitution.
It's just how people are and will always be.
Flashing way back as Murrow, Cronkite, et al were my go to sources as well as national newspapers. The MSM today doesn't seem to have the punch or credibility it used to. I'm constantly fact checking and looking for a deeper and rational insight into "topics". With everything so politicized, news requires careful shifting to ensure it's devoid of most bias and it's factual - not Kellyanne Conway alternates. If I can triangulate the underlying (an ironic word) truth, then a sense of what's happening emerges. Devoid of preverification, gaslighting, and false narrative.
2026 must be the year Congress and Senate get rebalanced so the Constitution and Democracy are not torched into oblivion.
It's a while to go yet, but I'm starting to believe that Team R is going to throw Trump under the bus come 4 Nov 2026, and fully deny ever supporting him or MAGA come Dec 2027.
And he's doing his full part to really make even his voters sick of him, shoving his name, face, and comments onto and into every possible single thing imaginable- on top of his deeds and decisions, much of which is really hurting people.
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