Faux “News” is NOT a “real” news organization — it is a political POOPaganda machine CREATED BY REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AS A MEDIA OUTLET FOR REPUBLICAN SPIN. It is FALSE ADVERTISING and FRAUD to be marketed as news when it was created for the stated, explicit purpose of being a media outlet to represent the views of the Republican party.
In a 15-page memo from 1970, that had been in storage at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda and only released years later, it was revealed that Roger Ailes started planning “Faux Noise” while working for Nixon, though it was not practical in an age before cable made it feasible to establish entirely new media outlets. As a top Republican party strategist, Ailes engineered the election of Nixon, and later Reagan and George H.W. Bush before officially leaving his Republican party political role and establishing Faux “News” with the stated intent, expressed in his 1970 memo, of creating a Republican POOP-aganda machine disguised as a news outlet which occurred by the 1990’s.
There has never ever been a similar instance where a former top political strategist of a political party was the head of a television news department. (ABC had Diane Sawyer [a deputy press secretary for Nixon] and George Stephanopoulos [media spokesperson for Clinton], but neither was actual head of the news department, and the two — Republican and Democrat — balanced each other out.)
I love to channel surf sometimes and happen to catch Sean Hannity – its so much fun watching his veins almost rupture as he rants how terrible everyone treats the president and his eyes bulge and turn red. Did you ever notice the Chapstick that he keeps on the desk? It’s needed for all the a$$ kissing he does with the president! Joseph Goebbels would be proud!
When the majority reject an exclusive ideology that runs counter to American values of equality, you NEED a propaganda machine like Fox to spread fear, envy and hate to make the opposition look bad through spin and exaggeration and sometimes even outright lies.
Also, foreigners like Rupert Murdoch were not allowed to own a media network until Republucans changed the rules for him. In a televised interview with Arnold Schwartzenegger a drooling Tim Russert begged him to run for president, saying he could “get that changed” for him, regarding the constiturional ban on foreign born citizens holding the office. They’re so flexible!
Leave it to Jane Mayer to be able to “out” Fox Noise’s manipulation of the Big Orange Rump. She is one of the few brave enough to go into those dark places to find the truth. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/three-revelations-from-the-new-yorkers-explosive-fox-news-story/ar-BBUntIy?ocid=spartandhp
I’m going to draw some ire here, but so be it. First of all, I don’t like the Fox News channel nor many of their “commentators.” Hannity and Coulter spring to mind as two examples. However, The First Amendment to the Constitution reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (emphais added). This freedom of speech and of the press insures that anyone, anyone, may express their opinions. As much as I dislike much of what I hear, it’s my responsibility to sort through the “exchange of ideas” and make up my own mind. So I dislike Fox. I usually vehemently disagree with what I hear or see on Fox. But a free press has to be free. (And speech is not totally free; there are laws against libel and slander and even the Fox people know you can’t falsely yell “FIRE” in a crowded theater unless there really is a fire.) So I don’t like it. But I’ll live with it because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
“THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN”
“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. In the beginning there is the understanding, this understanding uses propaganda as a tool to find those men, that shall turn understanding into politics. Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right.”
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
“The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.”
All from Joseph Goebbels. (And Maybe the FAUX Noise Operations Manual…)
Just wait till Donny Boy starts his own network after he leaves office. It will probably be mainly entertainment but I’m sure he won’t be able to resist putting his spin on events as a former president.
While this is certainly unnerving, has anyone decried the inbred relationship between Democrat politicians and much of the main stream media?
It’s just as bad, and just as wrong. And we buy it. That’s why viewership and reliance on the Main stream media is falling, and has been for a long time.
Entire outlets have taken up outright support for and/or against candidates. Corporate ownership of media brings everything into one line.
RAGs about 5 years ago
They do seem to make up headlines telling him what to lie about.
feverjr Premium Member about 5 years ago
Rupert Murdoch’s wife was dating Putin…. just saying Putin and Rupert have a relationship… could you call it a “back channel to Russia”?
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rupert-murdochs-ex-wife-wendi-deng-is-dating-vladimir-putin-w200077/
DD Wiz Premium Member about 5 years ago
Faux “News” is NOT a “real” news organization — it is a political POOPaganda machine CREATED BY REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AS A MEDIA OUTLET FOR REPUBLICAN SPIN. It is FALSE ADVERTISING and FRAUD to be marketed as news when it was created for the stated, explicit purpose of being a media outlet to represent the views of the Republican party.
In a 15-page memo from 1970, that had been in storage at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda and only released years later, it was revealed that Roger Ailes started planning “Faux Noise” while working for Nixon, though it was not practical in an age before cable made it feasible to establish entirely new media outlets. As a top Republican party strategist, Ailes engineered the election of Nixon, and later Reagan and George H.W. Bush before officially leaving his Republican party political role and establishing Faux “News” with the stated intent, expressed in his 1970 memo, of creating a Republican POOP-aganda machine disguised as a news outlet which occurred by the 1990’s.
There has never ever been a similar instance where a former top political strategist of a political party was the head of a television news department. (ABC had Diane Sawyer [a deputy press secretary for Nixon] and George Stephanopoulos [media spokesperson for Clinton], but neither was actual head of the news department, and the two — Republican and Democrat — balanced each other out.)
http://news.yahoo.com/report-roger-ailes-started-planning-fox-news-while-175511516.html
Daeder about 5 years ago
There’s the free press, then there’s the not so free propaganda machine.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member about 5 years ago
NAILED IT!!!
lopaka about 5 years ago
Scary as all hell, isn’t it.
wolfiiig about 5 years ago
Fox News: Coming soon, Russian subtitles!
Stevefk about 5 years ago
I love to channel surf sometimes and happen to catch Sean Hannity – its so much fun watching his veins almost rupture as he rants how terrible everyone treats the president and his eyes bulge and turn red. Did you ever notice the Chapstick that he keeps on the desk? It’s needed for all the a$$ kissing he does with the president! Joseph Goebbels would be proud!
Ontman about 5 years ago
And please remember what happened to ‘Goebbels and Friends’.
Zebrastripes about 5 years ago
It never ceases to amaze, how many believe the lies, the twisted words, the bimbo commentators, the big hair, the……oh well, you know….
Masterskrain Premium Member about 5 years ago
“It’s NEWS for Dumb Fu**s!”
superposition about 5 years ago
When the majority reject an exclusive ideology that runs counter to American values of equality, you NEED a propaganda machine like Fox to spread fear, envy and hate to make the opposition look bad through spin and exaggeration and sometimes even outright lies.
WaitingMan about 5 years ago
And Trump supporters will ask, “So where is the problem?”
jborg Premium Member about 5 years ago
Also, foreigners like Rupert Murdoch were not allowed to own a media network until Republucans changed the rules for him. In a televised interview with Arnold Schwartzenegger a drooling Tim Russert begged him to run for president, saying he could “get that changed” for him, regarding the constiturional ban on foreign born citizens holding the office. They’re so flexible!
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 5 years ago
Right. Fox “News.” lmao
Tzinger about 5 years ago
Yes. Let’s return to the “Fairness Doctrine” of the FCC
NRHAWK Premium Member about 5 years ago
Leave it to Jane Mayer to be able to “out” Fox Noise’s manipulation of the Big Orange Rump. She is one of the few brave enough to go into those dark places to find the truth. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/three-revelations-from-the-new-yorkers-explosive-fox-news-story/ar-BBUntIy?ocid=spartandhp
magicwalnut Premium Member about 5 years ago
The truth is only liberal propaganda, according to Fox “News”.
Bookworm about 5 years ago
I’m going to draw some ire here, but so be it. First of all, I don’t like the Fox News channel nor many of their “commentators.” Hannity and Coulter spring to mind as two examples. However, The First Amendment to the Constitution reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (emphais added). This freedom of speech and of the press insures that anyone, anyone, may express their opinions. As much as I dislike much of what I hear, it’s my responsibility to sort through the “exchange of ideas” and make up my own mind. So I dislike Fox. I usually vehemently disagree with what I hear or see on Fox. But a free press has to be free. (And speech is not totally free; there are laws against libel and slander and even the Fox people know you can’t falsely yell “FIRE” in a crowded theater unless there really is a fire.) So I don’t like it. But I’ll live with it because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
Alberta Oil Premium Member about 5 years ago
Free.. but irresponsible speech.. historians will note.. was the ultimate cause in the decline of a once powerful nation.
Masterskrain Premium Member about 5 years ago
“THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN”
“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. In the beginning there is the understanding, this understanding uses propaganda as a tool to find those men, that shall turn understanding into politics. Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right.”
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
“The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.”
All from Joseph Goebbels. (And Maybe the FAUX Noise Operations Manual…)
mourdac Premium Member about 5 years ago
Just wait till Donny Boy starts his own network after he leaves office. It will probably be mainly entertainment but I’m sure he won’t be able to resist putting his spin on events as a former president.
"It's the End of the World!!!" Premium Member about 5 years ago
While this is certainly unnerving, has anyone decried the inbred relationship between Democrat politicians and much of the main stream media?
It’s just as bad, and just as wrong. And we buy it. That’s why viewership and reliance on the Main stream media is falling, and has been for a long time.
Entire outlets have taken up outright support for and/or against candidates. Corporate ownership of media brings everything into one line.
Redd Panda about 5 years ago
So…it’s 1984? Seems Mr. Orwell was right, his time-line was off a little. I can forgive him for that.
Dtroutma about 5 years ago
FAUX News loves a faux human in the Oval Office.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Fox ’news ’ made all the women who sued it for sexual harassment sign an NDA.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Eric Trump encouraging the 81 people on the Dem list to not comply or take the fifth.
Scoutmaster77 about 5 years ago
Did we really need a reporter to tell us this. Watch some of this news outlet (if you can take it) and convince me it’s not propaganda.
William Bednar Premium Member about 5 years ago
Fox News wants to change is name to: “The Ministry of Truth”. Think Trump will OK this?