Thread by @FixMediaNow

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Many folks learned yesterday that @FoxNews is a propaganda arm of the Republican Party from its CEO right wing oligarch @rupertmurdoch

The @nytimes does not consider this front page worthy.

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@Sulliview @MarkJacob16

This is a huge development. Credit to the @washingtonpost who see that the agenda-setting hate-for-profit network #fox lies at a massive scale is an important story.

Why @SallyBuzbee won’t say lies is an indictment of institutional weakness.

But +1 for putting this story A1

But what do @nycscribe & @AGSNYT do as Rupert Murdoch IN HIS OWN WORDS says that Fox is a political arm that will do all it can to help GOP?
Not front page.

But what is?
-rents in LA
-highlight NYC Progressives in disarray
@jeffjarvis @Will_Bunch @owillis @soledadobrien

Even the @WSJ owned by @rupertmurdoch put this on its front page.

To be fair they neutralized the story, a lot.

This is another way how @nytimes loses credibility.

@froomkin @susanbordson @MediaBusters6

Next up. It’s stunning to have folks wake up to the hyperpartisan and dangerous intentions of #fox. Better late than never.

Fox is a disinformation factory creating an alternate *unreality* for millions of Americans.

Fox propaganda killed/kills Americans.

H/t @mmfa

Fox is building and buttressing a whole ecosystem to embed its pro-Republican and anti-democracy propaganda. Rupert Murdoch is not only about profit he is about POWER. He has all the money he could ever spend.

Fox is dangerous propaganda.

Follow @MattGertz

The Fox Right Wing propaganda is building a huge multi platform ecosystem / empire so big that it will soon be nearly impossible to escape.

First understand that Fox is a radicalizing force. It is not purely providing information to an audience. It is using basic propaganda techniques to create community in its audience and having them reject other sources of information. Watch @BrainwashingDad by @Jen_Senko

Media oligarch Rupert controls attention and narrative with his properties. He has turned the WSJ past legitimacy into a Trojan horse of an OpEd megaphone for Right Wing propagandists.

Note @rupertmurdoch is at war with democracy as a regulatory state capable of enforcing policies that would benefit the “common good” are a threat. As such he vehemently opposes @gigibsohn for @fcc !

ACT against Rupert. Call your Senators and ask them to advance and come out in support of @gigibsohn for FCC

Rupert employs homophobes to spread his disinfo. Watch Fox. Learn.

Also his homophobic WSJ Editorial “strange bedfellows” is an attack on the eminent @gigibsohn who would be the first openly LGBTQ+ on the FCC

@VictoryFund has stridently called out hateful attacks on Sohn.

Back to #fox metastasizing.

If you watch sports you see Rupert uses Fox as a Trojan horse for promoting and normalizing his true core power -Fox News. During #SuperBowl he plugged his other platforms and personalities.

Fox Nation is a suite of Right Wing infotainment.

Wisely @JoeBiden refused to sit for an interview with @foxsoultv

We wish more folks listened to experts on the Fox ecosystem @GoAngelo @mmfa that by appearing on Fox you LEGITIMIZE Fox to advertisers. Advertising $ anywhere in the Fox network supports racist @TuckerCarlson

Sports equals eyeballs.
Sports = normalization of Fox’s hate for core mission.
Super Bowl, World Cup etc.

People have to wake up fast there is an information war and oligarchs are using media to fight against the common good. It’s not only $ - it’s narrative. @MMBrussell

Did you notice @Tubi commercials on the #fox broadcast #SuperBowl ?

What’s #Tubi? Tubi is a rapidly expanding streaming platform owned by Fox.

It will be a conduit where Murdoch builds a fully self-contained information ecosystem- and will eventually prioritize Fox propaganda

You:
1-refuse to call it Fox “News”. It’s “Fox Propaganda”.
2-follow folks fighting against Fox: @StopDisinfo24_7 & @DecodingFoxNews @MattGertz
3-stand up for truth on a Tuesday in NYC outside Fox propaganda studios with @TruthOverFox
4-cancel cable
techdirt.com/2021/04/29/tha…

Tell us what you are doing. We all need to activate.

The media oligarchs are activated and consolidating power, control of information and narrative.
They are rendering our government inoperative to regulate their power.
This alliance 👇 should scare the f*ck out of you.
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