CNN’s ratings have been circling the bowl. Apparently, viewers don’t respond well when your main headliner is accused of sexual assault and then a case or pedophilia is also found at the network. So now Stelter and other CNN commentators are grasping at straws, trying to stay relevant. So Stelter tried to rile people up with his attack on Fox News, he basically accused Fox News of being fake news.
“BRIAN STELTER, CNN: There are real challenges, but then if we go to the FOX-iverse, let’s take a look at the imagined drama that FOX News presents every day. Let’s do the scroll. These are just some examples of the banners on FOX News in the past few days. You get the sense that America has gone to hell.
A declining quality of life, America as an “apocalyptic hellscape,” that was one of the actual banners. This is a banner that’s anti-Biden, also anti-Democrats-who-run-urban-areas, and it goes on and on every hour. I wanted to give a sampling. “The Biden administration is a clown car driving off a cliff.” That’s a great example of the kind of incendiary rhetoric that you would have never seen from another channel, let’s say, during the Trump or Biden years, etc.
Oliver, you wrote about this in the newsletter this week, it felt like FOX went up another notch when it came to how they described crime and, yes, there is a crime problem, but the way it’s described on FOX, you would be afraid to leave your house.
OLIVER DARCY, CNN: Two points, Brian, one, as FOX is describing these cities as apocalyptic hellscapes, their executives announced this week they will be holding two major events, one in New York City and one in Los Angeles over the next few months. That’s one. The executives obviously don’t believe what they’re selling to their audience. Two, like you said, there is a crumb of truth to what they’re saying.
STELTER: There always is.
DARCY: Violent crime is on the rise.
STELTER: By some metrics, in some ways. There are also very scary specific stories that get a lot of attention.
DARCY: I think of it as an Instagram filter, Brian, you start with a real image and take the filter and pump it up 1,000% and what you’re left with is distorted and no longer reflects reality.
It started as an accurate portrayal but the end result is totally different and I think that’s what FOX’s coverage with crime really is. Yes, there is an issue in some places, but what they’re presenting to viewers is not accurate.
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Most people don’t watch CNN and those that do usually don’t watch Fox News. So he is really just preaching to his choir on this one. It’s just jealousy on the part of CNN, Fox News often pulls in more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.
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