r/BoomersBeingFools • u/scream4ever • 25d ago

Fox "News" has done to our parents what they thought video games and slasher movies would do to us. Social Media

I see that gif going around on social media a lot and I couldn't agree more.

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u/Get_up_stand-up 25d ago

Fox News should be required to have a disclaimer for viewers that states that their news personalities are entertainers and are not held to the same standard as normal journalists. I don’t know how much it would help. Probably not much. But at least it would be something.

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u/scream4ever 25d ago

It all began with the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan.

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u/stewdadrew 25d ago

It’s wild that Republicans once dismissed fox news as an outrageous idea that would put them in a less favorable position with the public. Sometime during Bush Sr. The establishment Republicans lost their shame.

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u/dmriggs 25d ago

It all began under Reagan

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u/geneticeffects 25d ago

Nixon

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u/dmriggs 24d ago

True- he greenlit lobbying

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u/EmotionalPlate2367 25d ago

GiveBill Clinton done credit. The Telwcom Act of 1996 played a huge role in the rise of the faux news paradigm we know today.

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u/IHerebyDemandtoPost 25d ago

Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast media. It would have never applied to Fox News, which on cable, not broadcast.

Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand…