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Fox called the election correctly. And experienced a significant backlash from viewers. The viewers don't want accurate reporting, they want to hear what they want to hear. Primarily conservative voters (though Sanders supporters exhibited some of the same behavior -to a much lesser extent- in 2016).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/politics/pan...

A little more than a week after television networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., top executives and anchors at Fox News held an after-action meeting to figure out how they had messed up.

Not because they had gotten the key call wrong ' but because they had gotten it right. And they had gotten it right before anyone else.

They are more concerned about ratings than giving their viewers accurate information that they need. That is a problem.

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They are more concerned about ratings than giving their viewers accurate information that they need. That is a problem.

A problem in bolded, italicized caps......a PROBLEM indeed!!

When you think of the legions of people who insist that they turn to Fox for the real news, for the truth, it's frightening. And this can't be the one and only time that Fox has set internal policy to speak lies instead of truth to avoid losing viewers.

And Tucker Carlson's in-house texts from just before the Jan 6 riots that have now become public:

'We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait,' he wrote.

'I hate him passionately, I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can't handle much more of this.'

Wow.

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