Here in the U.S., the presidential election season, like Christmas, seems to start earlier and earlier each time.
In keeping with this, the Democratic National Committee is making waves by announcing that it will exclude Fox News, which has the largest viewership of the major cable news networks by a considerable margin, from debate coverage of DNC presidential candidates.
Thomas Lifson outlines a number of reasons this may not be a good move.
One is that from a historical and strategy perspective:
Presidential debates inevitably favor the challengers. Trump can push them in that direction by agreeing to debates only if Fox News is included. That forces them to either accept FNC or have no debates at all. If they accept, that makes FNC the debate worth watching. The rest are discredited as Democrat "safe spaces,"
And it appears he has pounced and done exactly that from his twitter account:
Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!
Really all either party has to do is A) not be crazy and/or B) keep their idiot mouths shut to win.
Neither of these seems to be in the cards dealt to either side, so it should be a heck of a ride.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Aurean on Monday March 11 2019, @03:36PM (2 children)
the de facto propaganda wing of the DNCstill relatively sane."FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @10:27PM (1 child)
No, not really; they still promote war-mongering authoritarian propaganda. MSNBC is the propaganda arm of the DNC, and CNN has a massive neutrality bias where they pretend that two unequal positions are equal and debatable. Both have a right-wing slant, just less so than Fox News.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:09AM
Only if you're measuring from an irrelevant European standard. Measuring from a relevant US standard, FNC is establishment-right and absolutely every other television news network is middle-left-wing at best.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.