Part of the “media illiteracy” concept involves the idea that Fox is a giant evil misinformation platform designed to mislead uneducated people, which of course it is. But we run that story regularly, as though it’s a surprise. It’s gotten to the point where the Washington Post even does stories about how Fox broadcasts the statements of the president of the United States without correcting him. Why the fuck would they correct him? They’re not in the news business. They’re in the sell-ads-to-aging-anger-junkies-while-propagating-their-owner’s-right-wing-ideas business. The only reason not to
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