Don't listen to any one/source that lies to you for their benefit.
Now that Fox News can be seen for what it is, no one who values the truth should pay it any mind.
This is a topic that probably concerns a lot of people, so here is some analysis:
1.) Most corporations, of all varieties, will, and do, lie to you for their own benefit.
2.) It is naive for anyone to think a news corporation, of any stripe, has risen above this... it is just a business.
3.) Anyone with any sense of history, or business, should understand that Fox was never created to be a purveyor of "truth"; it was merely created to purvey a different information "product" to a different "market sector."
(This also happens on the other side of the political aisle. Many progressive websites were not created by progressives, they were created by ordinary business people who saw a niche in the market, and wanted to capitalize on that for a quick buck... now many of those websites are failing.)
4.) Although I'm very conservative, I don't listen to, or trust, Sean Hannity... I haven't listened to him in a long time.
Being conservative doesn't mean I have to listen to some particular person.
5.) Although I'm very conservative, I don't watch Fox News... I haven't watched them for a long time.
Being conservative doesn't mean I have to listen to some particular news network.
6.) However... the fact that all corporations are prone to lying to their customers for profit, does NOT mean all corporations are equal. Some have better or worse products, and some lie to lesser or greater degrees. This is also part of reality, and part of life.
Example:
If I catch Fox news lying about something, but the network stance on abortion is still pro-life... well... that is still a good thing, and it is still better than the antithesis. When two people, or two corporations, are imperfect... that does not mean they are therefore equal.
7.) Logic Problems To Consider - What can we logically conclude from a lie?
a.) It would be a logic problem to assume that because SOMEONE from a corporation has lied, that EVERYONE from that corporation has lied.
b.) It would also be a logic problem to assume that because a person lied about one thing, they have also lied about everything.
c.) It would also be a problem to assume that because a corporation, in some general sense, has lied about one thing, they have also lied about everything.
d.) And just to cap things off, it would be a logic problem to assume that because a corporation has lied, that some competing corporation is lying less, and should automatically be trusted.
e.) I'm not a fan of Fox, but this is still how the logic works.
* Lies might cause us to quite reasonably lose trust, or reevaluate things... but this is still how the logic works: a lie about one thing does not logically indicate lies about all things. But when we catch people lying, it is certainly time to reevaluate our level of trust.
8.) In all things, we should try to look at the facts, and not bury our heads in the sand... but we should also not push those facts further than they logically go.
9.) CONCLUSION:
a.) This issue will be massively politicized, and propagandized, far beyond anything logical or rational... so I thought it important to give it some analysis.
b.) We should try to look at all things logically and rationally... both the good and the bad.
c.) That being said, I don't personally watch Fox News. They've always been prone, as any business, to sometimes put money ahead of truth-telling, and the past few years they've been under different management, which seems to have accelerated a shift into some strange directions.
d.) However, I do feel they genuinely cover different stories, and different angles, that other networks ignore, or even "black out."
e.) If you're going to listen to mainstream news, Fox is a place that will give a different perspective, with different stories, and different angles, which the more progressive media will simply ignore.
f.) I believe that watching Fox for a different perspective is far better than a one-sided diet of progressive news, and progressive propagandizing... but personally, I don't get my news from Fox.
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I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.
And remember... sometimes it's good to just turn off the news for a while.
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