By Peter Barry Chowka March 12, 2023
FOX News, which last October marked its 26th anniversary as a cable news channel, has long been a target for its increasingly leftist competition, CNN and MSNBC. But now, the Federal Government is jumping on the kill-FOX bandwagon and making noises about trying to rein in, censor, or even silence the country’s #1 basic cable television channel.
In recent weeks, FOX News’s ratings-challenged competition – CNN and MSNBC – have devoted endless hours to bashing FOX News as an outlier – a fake news channel that lies, distorts, and serves as an inspiration for violent, election-denying, white nationalist insurrectionists. CNN and MSNBC have been joined in this First Amendment-busting crusade by the nation’s leading mainstream print and online media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press, as well as PBS, NPR, the broadcast networks, and too many other broadcast and print/online outlets to mention.
This campaign against FOX News is nothing new. But the new 2023 rallying cry is the contents of several recent legal filings by the companies suing FOX for libel for its coverage of the aftermath of the 2020 election. As the left wing British publication The Guardian wrote, in one of its several score articles bashing FOX News in recent weeks, this new political red meat mobilizing FOX’s critics results from:...............To Read More....
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