Sorry, Fox News Was Right About a Lot More Than Its Competit
Nov 13, 2024 23:45:22 GMT -5
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Sorry, Fox News Was Right About a Lot More Than Its Competitors
By Isaac Schorr, 11 hrs ago
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Fox News is not always precise.
Nor is it especially “fair and balanced,” the way it once claimed to be.
Still, in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory that saw him win every battleground state and the popular vote, its critics would do well to recognize that the conservative cable news network has been directionally right about a lot more than its competitors in recent years.
Hundreds of words could now be devoted to throat-clearing about Fox’s abundant flaws, including its tolerance of 2020 election denialism that cost it $787 million . But that column has been written many times over.
This one is about how while MSNBC, CNN, and so many other outlets papered over the Biden administration’s undeniable radicalism and abject failure, Fox correctly diagnosed Democrats’ problems and the rest of the media industry’s ignorance of them.
All of this was foreshadowed well before Biden took office. While others covered the Covid lab-leak theory as an absurdity, the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation, and Steele Dossier as gospel, Fox correctly treated the former two as unproven, but credible, and the latter as the partisan slop it was.
Moreover, once President Joe Biden did take the reins, Fox was proven right about nearly all of his deficiencies.
Unlike its peers, Fox recognized the significance of the Afghanistan disaster and kept on the story long after Biden haphazardly surrendered the country back to the Taliban, and sacrificed the lives of American servicemen and allies in the process. The rest of the press saw Afghanistan as a blip, a misstep. Fox — and the public — correctly viewed it as not just a national disgrace, but a sign of the incompetence to come.
Unlike its peers, Fox devoted considerable manpower and airtime to covering the border crisis and all of its associated maladies. Others scoffed at what they perceived to be Fox’s overemphasis on a supposedly minor issue. Yet immigration turned out to be one of the defining issues of the 2024 campaign — and for good reason. The disorder Biden and his team manufactured at the border created a humanitarian crisis and empowered the drug cartels. Once inside the country, illegal immigrants drive wages down, and even if they are not especially prone to committing other crimes, it is especially galling when they do because it represents a failure of the federal government to protect its citizens. Fox saw all of this clearly.
Unlike its peers, Fox recognized inflation as the single most important phenomenon of the Biden years. Globally, rising prices were one of the lingering after-effects of the pandemic. But the Biden administration poured gasoline on the fire by immediately passing a $1.9 trillion-with-a-t spending bill upon coming into power, dismissing Americans’ pain as “transitory,” and then passing another profligate spending under the title “Inflation Reduction Act.” Did it exaggerate Biden’s role? Perhaps. But it was closer to pinpointing it than most.
And unlike its peers, Fox’s personalities hammered Biden over his declining abilities over, and over, and over again. Doubtlessly, they sometimes went too far, or crossed the line into cruelty. But when Biden melted down in front of the entire country on the debate stage this summer, they were vindicated completely. Meanwhile, at CNN and MSNBC , figures like Jeffrey Toobin and Joe Scarborough smeared those who were right and suffered no consequence for misleading the public.
Fox was right about the excesses of transgender activists; right about Biden’s failure of deterrence in Ukraine; right about the folly of seeking rapprochements with China and Iran; right about his demagoguery; and right about Kamala Harris’s far-left record.
Critics will claim that Fox created all of these perceptions, but to do so is to fall into the trap that the Democrats are prone to laying for themselves. Deluded by their allies in the Fourth Estate, academia, and Hollywood, they always convince themselves that it is some nefarious outside force that is responsible for their defeats. In 2016, it was Russia. In 2024, it’s Fox and Elon Musk .
The hard truth is that the Democrats lost because of the destructive consequences of their unpopular policies.
Fox could have told you so. In fact, they tried.
The post Sorry, Fox News Was Right About a Lot More Than Its Competitors first appeared on Mediaite .
By Isaac Schorr, 11 hrs ago
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on this story, Mediaite may receive an affiliate commission.
Mediaite
Fox News is not always precise.
Nor is it especially “fair and balanced,” the way it once claimed to be.
Still, in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory that saw him win every battleground state and the popular vote, its critics would do well to recognize that the conservative cable news network has been directionally right about a lot more than its competitors in recent years.
Hundreds of words could now be devoted to throat-clearing about Fox’s abundant flaws, including its tolerance of 2020 election denialism that cost it $787 million . But that column has been written many times over.
This one is about how while MSNBC, CNN, and so many other outlets papered over the Biden administration’s undeniable radicalism and abject failure, Fox correctly diagnosed Democrats’ problems and the rest of the media industry’s ignorance of them.
All of this was foreshadowed well before Biden took office. While others covered the Covid lab-leak theory as an absurdity, the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation, and Steele Dossier as gospel, Fox correctly treated the former two as unproven, but credible, and the latter as the partisan slop it was.
Moreover, once President Joe Biden did take the reins, Fox was proven right about nearly all of his deficiencies.
Unlike its peers, Fox recognized the significance of the Afghanistan disaster and kept on the story long after Biden haphazardly surrendered the country back to the Taliban, and sacrificed the lives of American servicemen and allies in the process. The rest of the press saw Afghanistan as a blip, a misstep. Fox — and the public — correctly viewed it as not just a national disgrace, but a sign of the incompetence to come.
Unlike its peers, Fox devoted considerable manpower and airtime to covering the border crisis and all of its associated maladies. Others scoffed at what they perceived to be Fox’s overemphasis on a supposedly minor issue. Yet immigration turned out to be one of the defining issues of the 2024 campaign — and for good reason. The disorder Biden and his team manufactured at the border created a humanitarian crisis and empowered the drug cartels. Once inside the country, illegal immigrants drive wages down, and even if they are not especially prone to committing other crimes, it is especially galling when they do because it represents a failure of the federal government to protect its citizens. Fox saw all of this clearly.
Unlike its peers, Fox recognized inflation as the single most important phenomenon of the Biden years. Globally, rising prices were one of the lingering after-effects of the pandemic. But the Biden administration poured gasoline on the fire by immediately passing a $1.9 trillion-with-a-t spending bill upon coming into power, dismissing Americans’ pain as “transitory,” and then passing another profligate spending under the title “Inflation Reduction Act.” Did it exaggerate Biden’s role? Perhaps. But it was closer to pinpointing it than most.
And unlike its peers, Fox’s personalities hammered Biden over his declining abilities over, and over, and over again. Doubtlessly, they sometimes went too far, or crossed the line into cruelty. But when Biden melted down in front of the entire country on the debate stage this summer, they were vindicated completely. Meanwhile, at CNN and MSNBC , figures like Jeffrey Toobin and Joe Scarborough smeared those who were right and suffered no consequence for misleading the public.
Fox was right about the excesses of transgender activists; right about Biden’s failure of deterrence in Ukraine; right about the folly of seeking rapprochements with China and Iran; right about his demagoguery; and right about Kamala Harris’s far-left record.
Critics will claim that Fox created all of these perceptions, but to do so is to fall into the trap that the Democrats are prone to laying for themselves. Deluded by their allies in the Fourth Estate, academia, and Hollywood, they always convince themselves that it is some nefarious outside force that is responsible for their defeats. In 2016, it was Russia. In 2024, it’s Fox and Elon Musk .
The hard truth is that the Democrats lost because of the destructive consequences of their unpopular policies.
Fox could have told you so. In fact, they tried.
The post Sorry, Fox News Was Right About a Lot More Than Its Competitors first appeared on Mediaite .
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