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Fox is greatly overrepresented when it comes to policing / sentencing news on Google (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just a note here, local FOX affiliates like FOX 9 often have very little to do with the cable channel FOX News and are simply local affiliates of the larger FOX network.

FOX 9 is local news for Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota. It sort of makes that clear in this Google News image.

A local station being an affiliate of a specific television network is not necessarily indicative of similar politics.

However, that being said, a large majority of local television stations are now owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, who do have similarly shitty politics to FOX News, the cable channel.

Finally, interestingly enough, doing some digging on FOX 9, it turns out its actually one of the small number of local television stations directly owned by FOX corporation, so this station in particular might have politics closer to FOX News, since it's actually owned by FOX Corporation. According to their corporate site, they own 29 local stations in the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah you have to actually look into who owns the local channels. Just because a channel is labeled Fox## doesn't mean they have anything to do with the Fox News that everyone knows.

Same thing with all your local channels. Don't assume who they are. Actually look up who owns what and where they get thier stories from.

I know I'm basically just repeating what you said, Saucerman, but it should be repeated. It's something people don't really think about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a nuanced and thoughtful response. I lean towards Fox affiliates being more-likely right wing than not until I see evidence suggesting otherwise, but it's good to keep an open mind. Thanks!

[–] LEDZeppelin 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for immigration news. Top results are always Breirtbart, OAN, NewsMax or some other fucked up right wing propaganda machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same on YouTube. They are always trying to push right wing bullcrap on me. Just because I watch Tim Dodd doesn't mean I want to watch Tim pool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, their whole thing is drumming up fear in their base; talking about the sentencing and imprisonment of racial minorities is just gold for them.

[–] Bigmodirty 7 points 1 year ago

Gotta go hard because Minnesota is pretty much the bluest state in the nation. We never voted for Reagan.