My viewing of the Fox News Channel (FNC) has cratered. Why, if you’re even interested? They seem to be speaking to an increasingly narrow fringe of the right. A conservative cannot be limited to Trump-worship, neo-protectionism, neo-isolationism, and pandering to the unhinged on the far, far right. Extolling those in Republicans ranks who mirror the antics of the Democrats’ “Squad” isn’t a winning formula for me. It’s off-putting.
The news division is different from the commentariat side. Those reporting the news at FNC do yeoman work in carrying stories that should be leads in our now fully woke legacy media, but aren’t. However, the big money and attention in FNC goes to the primetime lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham. The school is still out on Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters. Carlson is a repulsive booster of neo-isolationism, an odd critic of support for the victims of brutal aggression (Ukraine), a knee-jerk carper against the “big” in big business, and a half-witted reviler of free markets, among other things. Hannity can’t seem to go beyond Trump-worship. It’s disgusting. Like Tucker, Laura rails against a nebulous “establishment” that eerily and rhetorically performs the same function as CRT’s hazy “white supremacy” and Marx’s “working class”. She and Carlson conduct a regular tag-team hatchet job on Zelensky, and she follows Carlson into the swamp of isolationism. I could go on but won’t bore you with an ever-lengthening laundry list.
I found myself yelling at the tv at age 70 as when I was 30 years younger screaming at Dan Rather. I’d rather ingest my news through reading. The Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Townhall.com, National Review, etc., staying away from the kookier sites, with supplements from some of the dinosaurs, are my current choices. At least in that way, I can better filter out the balderdash, and keep my sanity.
FNC was a necessary counterpoint to the monotonous leftism most everywhere else. It’s too bad that they regularly soil themselves in the 6 to 9 pm (MST) time slot. Au revoir Fox News Channel.
RogerG