The Dominion lawsuit reveals how the network truckles for ratings.
This is an article I should send to my Trumper sister, explaining to her that the woman who wrote it is a card-carrying conservative. She worked and shilled for Ted Cruz and Jim DeMint (can't get much more GQP than those two).
Fox knew the truth but lied every night. The intellectual dishonesty is staggering but it took millions of people like my sister into dark fantasy places.
Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, who is part of the network’s “news division,” is scheduled to keynote a fundraiser for a conservative group alongside Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Fox News executives point to their “news division” when touting the channel’s alleged independence. In reality, as further evidenced by Bream’s fundraiser appearance, the "news" and opinion sides are both cogs in the same propaganda machine.
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer is now trying its hand at online memes, posting a cartoonish tweet seeking to combat misinformation about the vaccines. But while the welcoming arms of science in the comic strip might be able to draw the human brain away from wild conspiracy theories, one problem remains: Pfizer is still bankrolling the “wild conspiracy theories,” via its position as a corporate sponsor of Fox News.
According to Media Matters internal data, Pfizer has run at least 289 advertisements on Fox News this year, up through October 31. But not only has Fox undermined the vaccination campaigns on a nearly daily basis — with a recent poll also showing the extent to which Fox-promoted misinformation has penetrated among Republicans — its commentators have also been biting the hand that feeds them, with direct attacks against Pfizer itself.
During a conversation Tuesday with the Atlantic Council, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla called people “criminals” who have taken advantage of the natural fears and doubts some people have had about the vaccines.
“Those that don’t get the vaccine, they’re afraid of the vaccine and they are mad with the people that are pressing them to get it,” Bourla told the Atlantic Council. “Those I understand. They are very good people. They are decent people. But they had a fear, and I understand it, and they don’t want to take chances.”
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Bourla’s comments, whether or not he intended, could have described Fox News perfectly. The network has sought to elevate vaccine refusers to the status of culture war heroes, but at the corporate level, the network also clearly does not believe the misinformation it is selling. The company has instituted vaccination and testing mandates at its own offices — as well as at its corporate shareholder meeting. But according to Fox insiders, the COVID-19 lies have been “great for ratings.”
Pfizer wants to help combat the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation, but it continues to advertise on Fox "News", where numerous hosts and guests have spouted out anti-vaxx misinformation.