[zwkrt]

I very infrequently watch the news. it is obvious to me that major news outlets, at least in the US where I am familar, are definitely attempting to push political agendas and shape public opinion and manufacture consent.

However, Fox news is consistenly the only news source that I see which is explicitly trying to fearmonger, to use identity politics to pit people against each other, and is the only news source that allows airing people that advocate for the reduction or freedoms and rights of certain classes of people.

I can count on the rest of the news sources to be vaguely pro-police, pro-capital, pro-land-owner, pro-status-quo. There are negatives to having news be so favoring to the ruling elite. But on the topics of who gets to live with decency in the US, at least the other major news outlets agree that the answer is 'anyone with money'. The American dream. On fox news though there are 1000 ways to be the wrong kind of person who needs to be shamed and harmed and removed from society.

[rektide]

500%. Keeping people glued to the tube, sensationalism, is uncomfortably high many places.

But you're dead on right, there is nothing remotely close in equivalency. To the people Vs people hating & lies of one side of the media. There's coverage of issues & actions on one hand, & coverage about how fallen & bad everyone on the other side is from the not so honorable opposition.

Tucker Carlson's rebirth as a dark soul, after being shamed by John Stewart, is one of those dark bitter tales of humanity where someone, faced with crisis, tripled down on every bad aspect. There's a certain White House Correspondence Dinner that begat another shameless fall towards power, also of note.