It’s Trump, so it should be The Biggest Lie.
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Arguing about whether Fox is “news” is pointless. To these nut jobs, it IS the news. Who earns that label doesn’t matter. What matters is word on the street: they deliberately don’t watch CNN and other real “news” sources, but they can’t get away from it - which is why they get so upset over “fake news”, and which is also why WE get so upset about “Fox news”. They don’t want to believe it, but if you think they don’t hear it, you’re wrong.
Repetition is how they came to accept Trump’s delusions: They heard it on Fox, their friends send them notes that came from QAnon, other friends say they heard it from friends (without any source given at all), etc, etc. Repetition might be the only tactic left to discourage them. Repeatedly using a shorthand term they’ve already taught themselves to ignore is not going to persuade anybody. Spell out the truth every time, some tiny truth they can’t avoid might just begin to resonate.
“The Big Lie” literally uses the term “Big”, but using it too much makes it seem much smaller.
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Agreed, this is part of the core issue. Fox, Trump and Republicans in general are a reactionary lot. They actively sabotage whatever common language they need to to oppose, isolate and criticize Democratic policy. Avoiding terminology that “Democrats prefer” is just going to be a growing list of common and scientific terms. Especially once they realize this is CNN’s new rule, and can start to specifically game them.
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Yuge Lie?
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Disingenuous isn’t what I’d call it; but the format of that Fox show certainly was; a “shared host” arrangement where a “liberal” and a “conservative” provided a “Fair and Balanced” account. It was at the time a transparent sham, and Stewart was right to insist on the difference between comedy, news, and opinion. That was the point: he made: the blurring of the lines between categories let Fox play “whataboutery” games with effective critics. The problem was and is that sector of the news sector (who enjoy Constitutional protections that comedy shows do not) who play fast an loose and have devolved into propaganda; that’s disingenuous, not providing a cntique of it.
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It’s like he thinks this is still the 80’s, and news media needs to follow the ‘fairness doctrine.’
Or he thinks they’ll somehow appeal to people who say CNN stands for “Communist News Network.”
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Yeah, and the other problem is that folk who make an effort to try and report ‘news’ and then make a mistake (and quite often quickly apologise for it and make sure it doesn’t happen again) are the ones who are hauled over the coals and sometimes even have their careers destroyed, whereas the folk who just lie and then say “hey, you knew we were liars” suffer no consequences.
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I honestly don’t care, though, what they think.
And why do YOU believe that “their” word means more than the rest of us. How long are we going to keep letting the worst of us rule over the rest of us?
Or they accept it because they believe it.
We seriously need to stop shaping our entire universe around these assholes. They need to be marginalized politically and calling things what they are (in this case, it IS a lie and is a Big Lie in the mode of Goebbles-style propaganda) is part of that.
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Well this explains everything.
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