Star Member berniesandersmittens (10,235 posts)
Fox "news" has destroyed my family no it hasn't - you're just butthurt
I had a conversation with my grandparents today.
They told me Ashley Babbit was shot while talking on her cell phone.
They believe the election was stolen, so the January 6th terrorists were justified. And since there were no guns, it was all peachy keen.
When I mentioned the police who were beaten by the terrorist my grandmother said " that didn't happen"
I come from a strong Democratic family. families don't have political bents, you Trotskyist scum I was raised by these very same people that Republicans were terrible, corrupt, and liars.
My first presidential vote was for Al Gore.
In the last 10 years, the patriarch and matriarch of the family became housebound. Fox news is on 247 at their house.
I love these people. Disinformation and lies have brain washed them.
I hate fox and I hate the divide they have caused within my family. The only divide is probably your butt cheeks, moron
Here's a thought: Fox isn't destroying ANYTHING - you guys just want to control what your family consumesThere are almost 100 replies to this steaming stack of monkey loaf, each lamenting that a television channel they don't like is freely consumed by people close to them,
whom they would like to control.
Their solution, of course, is to force their "loved" ones to watch MSNBC and CNN instead, so they get the "truth," or at least would be fed Dem talking points from people who are acceptably BIPOCJHFF or LGBTQWEXM or whatever.
Star Member Dream Girl (4,543 posts)
3. I wonder if there's any way they can be held accountable.
You're in luck, "Dream Girl," I checked with a couple of Stalinists sitting outside a 7-11 and they say YES. Just boycott Fox and they'll be toast in no time.
FM123 (9,002 posts)
8. I am so sorry for what you have been going through with your family.
I remember reading an article from a few years back about this kind of thing happening more and more...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/i-gathered-stories-of-people-transformed-by-fox-news.html
I think you mean DEPROGRAMMED from decades of NEA influence and 60's burnout college professors.
Dreampuff (503 posts)
25. I'm so sorry.
I know what you were saying about fox. We also have relatives who just don't seem to get it and they listen to that rhetoric day after day.
My theory is still that we need to bring back the fairness Doctrine. I would hope it would take care of this huge division caused by lies.
Remember to add Newsmax and OAN to that list. I lost a long time friend who was addicted to oan and neither of us could take it anymore. Many, many years down the drain, unfortunately.
The Fairness Doctrine would likely create MORE right-leaning news sources, not fewer. "Fair" does not mean "what you like."
I really don't see the big deal, anyway: the median age on DU appears to be about 65. Half of them are about to croak, anyway.
