11 posts tagged ‘fox news’
Linda Ronstadt's 1983 warning about Rupert Murdoch's dangerous media tactics was eerily prophetic
Boing Boing,
Decades before Fox News altered the media landscape, Linda Ronstadt, a star known more for her melodies than her media critiques, delivered a powerful warning. In a 1983 Australian TV interview — 13 years before the launch of Fox News — she spoke out against Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist newspapers with astoundingly accurate foresight: It's amazing to me that people read, you know, stuff in People Magazine or the National Enquirer. — Read the rest
Fox News host brutally attacks Gen Z, calling them everything from "stupid" to "pretty evil" (video)
Fox News commentator Dagen McDowell just scorched Gen Z — a voting block that Republicans already lack — by viciously describing America's youngest adults as "egomaniacal and unmotivated and irretrievably stupid layabouts" who are also "immoral and heartless and pretty evil." — Read the rest
Homeless people "want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk" says Fox News' Jesse Watters
"Homelessness isn't about lack of affordable housing. It's about drug addicts that want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk," said Fox News' Jesse Watters in a recent diatribe. "You can't coddle antisocial behavior," he smirked, remarkably unaware of the irony of his argument. — Read the rest