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On 9/13/2024 8:41 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 9/13/2024 9:26 PM, John B. wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:31:31 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> None of this rebuts my point. Fox News is all about 
>>> making people
>>> afraid. I can't comment on local Fox chapters vs. cable 
>>> channels, since
>>> I get very little news from the TV; but I suspect they're 
>>> similar.
>>
>> Firstly I have never watched/read Fox News but  if Fox 
>> News is all
>> about making people afraid then my question is "why"? Does 
>> making
>> people afraid "sell more newspapers"?
> 
> Yes, it sells more newspapers, it generates more "eyeballs" 
> or attention onscreen and online which generates more ad 
> revenue, it gets customers coming back to monitor what's 
> happening with the latest dire crisis.
> 
> How much would you like to read about that?
> 
> https://natyliesb.medium.com/how-corporate-media-profits- 
> from-fear-3549fe16c03
> 
> https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/02/28/watching-the-tv- 
> news-will-make-you-paranoid/
> 
> https://www.sourcepr.co.uk/fear-mongering-in-the-media/
> 
> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ 
> full/10.1080/00131857.2019.1669257
> 
> Fox News is commonly known as the worst.
> 
> 

In the general area of paying the staff, taxes, keeping the 
lights on and returning acceptable amounts to shareholders*, 
whatever they are doing works.

* you're carping about a network of affiliated local 
independent stations who air Fox broadcast news, so this is 
a lot of separate entities with various ownership 
structures.  So far the Fox cable operation, which features 
myriad opinion programs, has not been mentioned here. Which 
is good in this case, because in my searches for detail on 
various incidents I often seek out the local reporter's 
version and as often as not that's a Fox affiliate. So 
despite not owning a television I have some small experience 
with them. I know nothing of the cable content side of the 
business.

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