I don’t watch network news very often. I don’t even have a functioning TV set. So I needed this Trevor Noah skit as a reminder of just how goofy and irresponsible Fox News can be.
Joe Biden was going to take away Americans’ meat. Kamala Harris had her children’s book distributed to unauthorized migrant children at the border. Joe Biden wore a mask as he sat alone in a ZOOM call with world leaders. Except none of these things was true.
There are plenty of valid criticisms you could make of Biden, and not just from a conservative point of view. But if you think of yourself as a liberal and you think of Fox News or right wing talk radio as “the other side,” you are not going to be swayed in your view.
You have the same thing with the “mainstream media.” A Capitol Police officer was beaten to death with a fire extinguished by maddened Trump supporters. Rudy Giuliani was warned by the FBI against going to Kiev to dig up material to help Trump’s campaign. Except none of these things were true, either.
I think it’s possible to get a relatively accurate idea of what’s really going on in the world, but you have to have more leisure time than most people have, and even then, it’s hard.
LINKS
Corporate News Outlets “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct It by Glenn Greenwald.
The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick’s Death, And They Just Got Caught by Glenn Greenwald.
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