Fox News is far from perfect. And some recent rather embarrassing revelations about certain hosts’ private thoughts on Trump claiming the election was stolen versus the thoughts they shared with their viewers make that pretty clear.
But the idea that Fox needs to be browbeaten into oblivion via advertiser boycotts and threats of being dropped by cable companies over it seems a little over-the-top. It’s also an idea that Media Matters’ president and CEO Angelo Carusone wholeheartedly supports:
1/ Given all the recent revelations about Fox News' internal machinations from the Dominion filings, I'd like to give a sense of just how delicate this moment is for Fox..
I'll start with advertisers, then talk about cable agreements and close with likely cascading litigation
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 1, 2023
Here’s how Carusone’s thread ends:
12/ The effects on the Murdochs/Fox will cascade.
But only if consumers act and ensure that Fox isn't about to force through massive increases in carriage fees and if media/others treat Fox like political operation that it is and not prop up veneer that it's a news network.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 1, 2023
“Veneer that it’s a news network.” As if Fox News is an outlier in that capacity. CNN and MSNBC are at least as guilty of that, and arguably even moreso. Not that Angelo would ever call them out on it.
Anyway, this self-described “Left leaning American interested in social Justice and all things left” was a big fan of Angelo’s thread, because it scratched that leftist authoritarian itch just perfectly:
Great thread. We need to pressure cable companies like we pressure advertisers. They need to know if they even consider carrying Fox News that they will called Nazis, because that’s what they are. The media matters formula has to be wielded to destroy all left opposing media
— Alex Severan (@AlexSeveran) March 1, 2023
Sounds like Carusone is all in on branding cable companies carrying Fox News as Nazis and using his operation to end any media that don’t have a pure leftist agenda (apparently the irony of calling someone else a Nazi when you’re the one who wants to shut down any and all dissent is lost on him):
hear hear
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 1, 2023
We hear you just fine, Angelo.
Angelo is the President & CEO of Media Matters pic.twitter.com/pun3Z11nar
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) March 1, 2023
Well attacking advertisers didn't work because…wait for it…Fox stays in business by getting viewers to pay a subscription! pic.twitter.com/Q6B1HiyC8P
— blank (@MarconiBalls) March 1, 2023
“Artificially inflated” that it needs the money to stay in business lol
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) March 2, 2023
Bless his heart.
“Destroy all left opposing media” 😂
— Moskva Miguel (@silberandgold32) March 1, 2023
That’s my favorite part
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) March 1, 2023
Mine too.
"the real problem is there's an alternative to our propaganda"
— Billionaire Chimp (@ChimpWithMoney) March 1, 2023
So, wait. Like fascism?
— Bojac (@HeartlessBojac) March 1, 2023
Isn’t this closer to actual Naziism than what they call Naziism?
— Zach in Wisco, 5x Grilled Cheese Champ (@Maytag_Zach) March 1, 2023
The only media that matters to Media Matters is liberal media.
Actually, that’s not quite true. Fox News also matters to Media Matters. It matters a lot. Actually, the more we think about it, the more we think that Fox News actually matters the most to Media Matters. Because without Fox News to whine about, what the hell would anyone at Media Matters do with their day?
lol I actually get this question a lot so let me be clear:
I love my job but I would love it a lot more if Fox News wasn’t spouting so much disinformation that organizations have to hire people to monitor it as a full-time job. https://t.co/xsBHcJvUoJ
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) March 3, 2023
If we put Fox News out of business, I promise that everyone at Media Matters will be just fine. pic.twitter.com/rKTmSvSrCs
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 3, 2023
Narrator: No one at Media Matters would be just fine. Literally no one. Fox News going away would trigger an existential crisis at MMFA. They’d spontaneously combust out of boredom and despair.
Their lives are already basically meaningless; this would make it official.
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