Do conservatives believe the shit on Fox News?

[The Architect Of Fate]

All media outlets do that.

No they don't 

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You would rather be a "critical thinker" than be happy? And who are you thanking? Who made you a critical thinker?

Bliss built on falsehoods is never worth it 

[The Grand Nudger]

Ignorance is bliss, so thankfully I'm a critical thinker.

You would rather be a "critical thinker" than be happy? And who are you thanking? Who made you a critical thinker?

Pretty much irrelevant to this discussion, as fox isn't in the business of making it's viewers happy - exactly the opposite.  It's in the business of making them angry, and dead.

[Ahriman]

You would rather be a "critical thinker" than be happy? And who are you thanking? Who made you a critical thinker?

Pretty much irrelevant to this discussion, as fox isn't in the business of making it's viewers happy - exactly the opposite.  It's in the business of making them angry, and dead.

How do you figure that? Do you really think they would be allowed to do that?

[The Grand Nudger]

You can see that they are, for yourself.

[brewer]

Unfortunately yes.  But they are just responding to what people are interested in.  Often times we see that the very basis of our society and culture is the key to our own sickness.  Like genetic mutation is the key to evolution and cancer.

The new opiate of the masses?

Ya lost me with the genetic reference, not sure it's a good analogy.

[Ahriman]

You can see that they are, for yourself.

Think about this.......a mainstream news network, that is allowed to broadcast on television, to millions of people.......has been given full permission to make those millions of people angry, or even dead. Why would this be the case? Who would mandate such a thing?

[The Grand Nudger]

There is no mandate, and no permission was required. Negative engagement is simply their business model, and they drove that clown car right over the covid cliff.

It's an entirely predictable outcome. If your network is reduced to telling people to eat horse paste to save themselves from a pandemic, people are going to die.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Think about this.......a mainstream news network, that is allowed to broadcast on television, to millions of people.......is given full permission to make those millions of people angry, or even dead. Why would this be the case? Who would mandate such a thing?

1. Because making people angry is profitable and keeps them coming back 

2. They don't much care that their viewers die as long as they tuned in before they snuffed it 

3. Sadly emotional manipulation and misinformation are not illegal

[Ahriman]

Think about this.......a mainstream news network, that is allowed to broadcast on television, to millions of people.......is given full permission to make those millions of people angry, or even dead. Why would this be the case? Who would mandate such a thing?

1. Because making people angry is profitable and keeps them coming back 

2. They don't much care that their viewers die as long as they tuned in before they snuffed it 

3. Sadly emotional manipulation and misinformation are not illegal

1. Nobody wants to be angry. You won't be able to keep an audience if all you're doing is making them angry.

2. They count on viewership for ratings.......but they don't care if their viewers die?

3. What's sad about that?

[The Architect Of Fate]

1. Nobody wants to be angry. You won't be able to keep an audience if all you're doing is making them angry.

Some are addicted to anger so you are wrong there 

2. They count on viewership for ratings.......but they don't care if their viewers die?

They can always find more viewers and their model is short term gains (ratings)

3. What's sad about that

So you're saying it's good to be able to lie to people and manipulate them?