Fox News is garbage. Just absolute trash that no one should trust, and no one should watch.
That said, Fox News isn’t alone in mining the superficial for outrage. I think the format and the competition creates a need to sensationalize discussion of the superficial. The left is just as good at that. The reason is that it’s hard to have a lucid level-headed discussion about sub-stratum influences in culture that fits into a television-viewer’s attention span. The superficial is all they have to work with. You can either make people think, or make people feel. One is fast and easy and doesn’t require cooperation, and the other slow and hard and requires effort on someone else’s part.
Like I said before, Fox News is a gutter, but they have people figured out.
