I watched Fox News every day for 44 months - here's what I learned

I watched Fox News every day for 44 months – here's what I learned
As a media critic, I’ve had an intimate look at the channel’s morning show – and how it poisons the national conversation
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/25/fox-news-watching-what-i-learned?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTEwMjU%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

Everything should calm down a little bit in seven months,” they said.

It was 9 February 2016, when I began my career as a critic of Fox News at Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit progressive research center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media.

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Officially, Fox & Friends is an opinion show, but the ostensibly separate news side – which also lies daily – pops up a lot.

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Fox News is ridiculous, stupid, and – when it doesn’t mean to be – hilarious. Most importantly, it’s an extremely influential stream of conservative misinformation. And the president’s favorite show, Fox & Friends, encapsulates the totality of the rotten network’s inherent conflicts and contradictions.

It shows how news and opinion is blurred – but opinion wins – and the lengths the network goes to ensure a devoted audience. Fox is a shameless counterfeit of a news organization, and Fox & Friends leads the fraud bright and early every morning.