{"id":9232,"date":"2016-10-26T22:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2023-04-21T23:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:33:14","slug":"the-problem-with-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-problem-with-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US should make a law that says if your TV station has the word &#8220;News&#8221; in it then it has to tell the truth. This would force Fox News to either change its name or start telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 50 examples of times that Fox News has lied, handily compiled by <strong>The Daily Show<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2015\/feb\/26\/fact-checks-behind-daily-shows-50-fox-news-lies\/\">The fact-checks behind &#8216;The Daily Show&#8217;s&#8217; 50 Fox news &#8216;lies&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an article showing how Fox News viewers have wrong ideas about many topics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/science-fox-news-why-its-viewers-are-most-misinformed\">The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers Are the Most Misinformed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe at this juncture when they&#8217;ve undoubtedly realized their complicity in preparing viewers to support Donald Trump, Fox News will rethink their strategy. Here&#8217;s a recent article about Fox News, the Republican Party, and the future:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/27\/media\/fox-news-gop-problem\/\">At Fox News, Grand Old Problems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US should make a law that says if your TV station has the word &#8220;News&#8221; in it then it has to tell the truth. This would force Fox News to either change its name or start telling the truth. Here are 50 examples of times that Fox News has lied, handily compiled by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[163,32],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-misinformation","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9789,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}