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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The other bullshit is, "news" channels have to abide by rules and regulations against bias and misinformation. Every time Fox News gets sued for something like that, they say, "We're not "news" we're "entertainment media", no reasonable person would take anything we say as fact" to avoid being regulated or held accountable. This was their entire defense in the Tucker Carlson v Dominion Voting case

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Then they should be banned from using the world "News".
    Not even the Daily Show uses it and it's way more informative and accurate toppled only by Last Week Tonight.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There was a graph going around during Stewart's first stewardship of the Daily Show, listing how well viewers of various news programs scored on a test of current affairs. The Daily Show came in third, ahead of every single "real" news channel save PBS and NPR. A comedy program is a more reliable news source than the actual news!

    (Fox was near the bottom, as one would expect.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I remember that, fox news wasn't just near the bottom. The study showed that fox news viewers were actually LESS informed about current events than people who watched the daily show exclusively.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    You're confusing Defamation law and the repealed "Equal Time" rule.

    There are currently no rules about what is and isn't news.

    There are laws about what is and isn't defamation. Whenever Fox gets sued for Defamation, they bring out the "we're entertainment not news, so no one should believe us" line.

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