Fox News and other Murdoch media outlets have done more to destroy liberal democracy in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. than anything else. They are an ongoing danger to democracy and the welfare of our country and citizens and must be purged for our country's health and survival! The Murdochs and their willing clowns are sick and greedy f*cks that must be held accountable!

Now Is It Time to Strip Fox of Its Broadcast License? | Common Dreams commondreams.org/opinion/strip


"On July 3, 2023, members of the Media and Democracy Project, a media watchdog group, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the renewal of the license for Philadelphia’s Fox TV station, WTFX. The filing charged that WTFX had repeatedly promoted a false narrative about the 2020 Presidential election being “stolen” from Donald Trump by the Democrats, “sowing discord in the country” in the process, and ultimately contributing “to harmful and dangerous acts on January 6, 2021.” The filing further alleged that the management of the station’s owner, the Fox Corporation, deliberately and knowingly “manipulated its audience” by pushing Trump’s baseless stolen-election narrative.

Although stripping an established TV station of its broadcast license may seem like an extreme measure, the Fox Corporation’s record of malfeasance and its repeated betrayal of the public trust justifies the action in this case. Indeed, an argument can be made that the FCC should take away every single one of the corporation’s broadcast licenses.

Consider the evidence. The Fox Corporation also owns the infamous and widely watched cable channel, Fox News. Transcripts of Fox News coverage during the two weeks after the 2020 election show Fox reporters and opinion-makers made nearly 600 statements casting doubt on the election outcome or promoting conspiracy theories about the balloting process. Even today Fox News continues to sow doubt about the election among its viewing audience and consistently downplays the subsequent coup attempt of January 6. More recently, the network has taken to attacking special prosecutor Jack Smith for bringing criminal charges against Trump for illegally retaining federal documents and for Trump’s role in inciting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

The public got a rare glimpse inside Fox News during the discovery process of a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, a manufacturer of voting machines that claimed Fox News hosts and their guests damaged Dominion’s reputation. Emails and text messages from Fox Corporation management, including messages between company board chair Rupert Murdoch and former top executive Preston Padden, showed they knew the claims of election fraud they were broadcasting were “total BS.” The emails revealed that the Fox News fact-checking department, “the brain room,” believed that allegations made on the network about Dominion voting machines being rigged were “100% false” and concluded that there was “no evidence of widespread fraud.”
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Broadcast television license holders are obliged to serve the public “interest, convenience, and necessity,” and the FCC makes clear a number of disqualifying criteria against incumbent licensees. These include “an adverse finding…against it or its owners by a court…in a civil or criminal proceeding.” Moreover, broadcast license holders can lose their license for promoting false information if they knew it was false, if broadcasting the false information “directly cause[d] substantial public harm,” and “it was foreseeable that [such promotion] would cause such harm.” The Media and Democracy Project filing bluntly charges that “Fox harmed the public by willfully distorting election news.”
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But Fox Corporation stands in an ignoble class all its own, and the network’s vile propaganda and egregious behavior are rightly disparaged by journalists and critics from across the political spectrum. Indeed, former Fox executive Preston Padden, who helped build the network to its current prominence, now believes that “Rupert Murdoch and his son and apparent corporate heir Lachlan Murdoch have proven unfit owners” and should no longer be allowed to operate broadcast TV stations in this country.

The FCC would do well to heed the challenge offered by the WTXF petition to deny."

#foxnewslies #foxnewshatesdemocracy

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Anonymous Germany · @AnonNewsDE
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Ray Epps glaubte daran, dass man die Präsidentschaft durch gestohlen hat, deswegen wollte er am 06. Januar zur Kundgebung in .
Videoaufnahmen zeigen, dass er auch am folgenden Angriff auf das Kapitol beteiligt war und mit anderen Protestteilnehmern sprach.
Fox News' machte ihn kurzerhand zum verdeckten -Agenten, der zur Erstürmung des Capitols angestiftet habe.

Nun verklagt Epps auf Schadensersatz.

spiegel.de/ausland/fox-news-ma

#trump #wahlbetrug #washington #tuckercarlson #fbi #foxnews #foxnewslies

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A conservative propagandist hosting his web show on a hate speech network following his dismissal from regular TV. What are the odds?

#fox #foxnewslies #tuckercarlson #newscorp #20thcenturyfox

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BHallBabyDoc · @BHallBabyDoc
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Murdochs' might have the money to hire the most aggressive and ruthless lawyers they can find, but money really can't buy intelligence. This is a story about how Lachlan Murdoch shot himself in the foot.

crikey.com.au/2023/05/01/crike


#murdoch #foxnewslies

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Deji · @Deji
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Funk_Funky · @funk_funky
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Elon is preparing his résumé as we speak. 🤢

#tuckercarlson #foxnewslies

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Nathaniel Harari · @natharari
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I couldn't be happier that Fox apparently threw out Tucker Carlson, but that does not in any way absolve them of any of their crimes - fraud, defamation, sedition and others counted amongst them.

#fox #tucker #carlson #foxnewslies

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💀 NuSkooler 💀 · @NuSkooler
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Has Tucker being fired caused him to become a martyr in the eyes of the alt-right wackos yet? Eagerly awaiting the conspiracy theories. Post 'em if you got 'em!

This won't change a thing from Fox, and I'm sure T-dawg will show up again soon, but hey, I'll take it for a Monday!

#foxnewslies #Corruption #Tucker

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Scott 🐂 · @bullriders1
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"There will be a new Tucker Carlson, and it’s a good bet he or she will be even worse." @GrahamDavidA

#foxnews #foxnewslies #foxnewsisnotnews

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CallMeRay · @callmeray
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Okay now do Janine and the money honey. Hannity would be a big bonus.

#foxnewslies

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Anonymous Germany · @AnonNewsDE
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trennt sich von , dem wahrscheinlich populärsten Prime-Time-Moderator des Senders.

" and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor", heißt es in einem äußerst knappen Statement.

Vergangen Freitag war demnach seine letzte Sendung.


press.foxnews.com/2023/04/fox-

#foxnewslies #foxnewsmedia #tuckercarlson #foxnews

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CopterDoctor · @copter_chief
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Rupert Murdoch better not be able to write off the $787B settlement on his taxes! I wouldn’t put it past him to try.

#foxnewslies

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Colbert helps Fox News to apologize for its massive campaign of lies to the American people.

tiktok.com/@colbertlateshow/vi

#foxnewslies

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Dave Brown on - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

#rupertmurdoch #foxnews #dominionvotingsystems #dominionvfox #fakenews #foxnewslies

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