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20 Jan, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Fox News after the Fox News Presidency

Facing new competition and sagging ratings, the network is heading deeper into the fever swamps. It will take the bulk of the right-wing media and GOP with it.
mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Since the election, Fox has cut its "news" hours for more right-wing propaganda, infused the remaining "news" shows with "opinion" content; and laid off employees who had at least a nominal commitment to reality.
Fox's 2020 coverage helped stymie the response to a pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans to date and triggered an insurrection in which pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

What comes next will be worse.
Fox will try to win back pro-Trump viewers by promoting ever-more-unhinged conspiracy theories and using increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric that encourages more violent insurrections.

Much of the GOP and the right-wing media will follow their lead.
Fox is sending a clear message to the network’s advertisers and the cable providers that carry it that the network is unwilling to reform from within, that it will only get more dangerous, and that it is no longer willing or able to provide them with cover.
That puts the onus squarely on Fox’s corporate enablers to stop rewarding the network for its dangerous behavior.

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All of Fox's staffing and programming changes are going in the same direction -- they are breaking the "news" side in hopes of winning back their pro-Trump viewers. mediamatters.org/fox-news/despe…
The network's takeaway from the last few months is that it hasn't been Trumpy enough.
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The name of the document appears to be "[Steps?] To Be Taken Immediately To Save The [WORDS HIDDEN BY FOLD] To The Constitution."

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