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Various news outlets are reporting that Bill Shine has been replaced as co-president of Fox News Channel. Suzanne Scott has replaced him. In possibly related news, there are reports that 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News Channel, is in talks with the Blackstone Group (a private equity investment firm) to purchase Tribune Media, a U.S. broadcasting chain.
In the UK, 21st Century Fox has requested permission from the government's Office of Communications to increase its ownership in Sky News; in April the network dismissed commentator Bill O'Reilly after paying out settlements in multiple sexual harassment lawsuits regarding Mr. O'Reilly.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:34PM
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The biggest thing about Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts Ma'am." is that as Ted Koppel points out, ideology has become more important than facts. They need to fix that first. That is Fox News' number one problem. If they don't fix that, then they are still bad for America as Ted Koppel says.
You can have whatever ideology you want. But the facts are what they are. You can't make the facts fit the ideology. The ideology (on both sides) should bend to the facts.
Fox News has been the fake news for too long. I remember a decade ago reading about how people who watched were less informed about basic facts than people who watched other news. I don't mean opinions. I mean facts. Like the sun rises in the East not the West.
When the president picks up a false idea from Fox News and tweets it as fact without any evidence and then doubles down on it, that is a problem caused by Fox News.
When a presidential candidate (Romney) is fact checked by the moderator over a fake fact he is wrong about, and that originated from Fox News, that is another problem caused by Fox News. That might have been the thing contributing to Romney losing the election. (Not that I'm crying over it.)
It's fine to have media with a particular bias, if that bias is well known. But quit calling it fair and balanced. And don't just make stuff up and call it news. CNN doesn't make stuff up and call it news -- CNN calls it BREAKING NEWS!
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