A group of concerned citizens has petitioned the FCC to require Fox News Channel to include a warning label on all its TV broadcasts.
“We view Fox News as a national security threat many times greater than ISIS. “ said group leader Jason Banks. “Over the past seventeen years, all that the network has done is distort, misinform, and lie to its viewers. We now have a significant portion of our population suffering brain injury. They live in an alternate universe.”
“Fox News is the number one cause for all the division and fear in our country,” added group member Linda Schmidt. “Fox News is not, and never has been, a legitimate news channel.”
The group has accused Fox News of being nothing more than a project by right-wing propagandist Rupert Murdoch and Republican media strategist Roger Ailes to spread disinformation and promote GOP politicians. And they have carried out that mission with a roster of rabidly partisan hosts broadcasting provable lies.
“The reason we have such a sorry group of Republican politicians these days is all because of Fox. Without Fox News there would be no Trump. That a significant group of Americans hate their government and are arming themselves is due to Fox. Yes, Fox is a threat to our national security. They are the preferred news outlet for gun-carrying, paranoid white racists.”
Jason Banks observed, “Fox’s motto, “fair and balanced,” is pure Orwellian genius. A new Gallup poll exposed Fox News for the fraud that it is by finding that instead of being “fair and balanced,” the cable news leader caters to a viewership that is 94% Republican (Fair and balanced exposed). A more truthful slogan, said Banks, would be “misinformation for the unbalanced.”
While the FCC is the watchdog for consumer deception and fraud, the group admits their chances of getting the agency to force Fox News to display a warning label on all its broadcasts are slim. But they refuse to let the network continue to call itself “news.” Said Banks, “They are entertainment, pure and simple. If this isn’t false advertising, then what is?
Here is the proposed warning label:
Fox News is not a news channel. They are registered as an entertainment network. Any correlation between what is said on its “news programs” and the truth is purely coincidental and unintentional. Watching Fox News over an extended period of time can cause a significant loss in IQ points and can turn you into a government-hating, gun-toting, uniformed bigot. Watch Fox at your peril.
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Unfortunately, the loss of the original “balanced reporting” law under Reagan precludes us from forcing them to change their programming. However, I know there are people out there working to get something changed through the FCC, such as their own designation as “news” – it’s sad that the country has fallen to where broadcasting primarily lies is allowed. And by the way, I corrected your warning label “..Any correlation between what is said on its “news programs” and reality is purely coincidental and INTENTIONAL..”
Calling Fox News “news” is totally false advertising! No, if there is any correlation between what Fox says and reality, its purely unintentional (They do not intend to report on reality.) I am, though, changing the word “reality” to “truth.”
Is it true Fox News is not allowed in Canada?
My understanding is that Fox News isn’t straight up banned in Canada, they have just been denied a license to broadcast. This means that Fox News can still be offered by private cable companies, but it can’t broadcast itself over public airwaves.