Although not about most of the things they’re being misled about… The Republican strategy of having policy that directly goes against the interests of their own voters only works because right-wing media draws people in with the lies they want to hear and follow it up with all the misinformation that keeps that strategy viable.
Fox used to have that distinction - they had their commentary where they made things up, and the news stories, where information might be accurate but incomplete. That’s not been true for a while. I recollect watching Fox after 9/11, to see what they were saying, and they would do news reports on the run-up to the war on Iraq by framing it as “The War on Terror” (that text being on screen every time they talked about Iraq). What did it have to do with terrorism? Nothing - not even the Bush administration was daring to claim that, but Fox really wanted to sell that war. Their news reports at the time regularly presented already debunked assertions as well. Things have only gotten worse since, and post-Trump they broke with reality pretty consistently.
