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Articles tagged Fox News (62)

Is this Fox News cleaning up its act after that $787.5 million Dominion settlement? Dealing with the latest in a long line of workplace lawsuits? Or betting they can make someone else a star in the same time slot?
“In interviews for this story, the harshest position against Fox News among journalism deans seemed to be a sort of double-secret probation.”
Meanwhile, ABC, CBS, and NBC had no strong base of viewers in any single religious tradition.
A study that seemed to claim they had was treated as “bad news for journalists: the public doesn’t share our values.” The reality is a few arbitrary research design decisions put a thumb on the scale.
According to one poll, more people oppose than support allowing a Fox-style channel to broadcast in the U.K.
“The audience is not loyal to Fox. It wants to get its fix of identity-confirming news. It will go where it can get it, and avoid where it can’t get it.”
October 2020 was one of the craziest news months in recent history, but you wouldn’t know it by looking in people’s Facebook feeds.
“Polling seems to be irrevocably broken, or at least our understanding of how seriously to take it is.”