| ▲ | UltraSane 2 hours ago |
| "one of them always has a 24 hour news going " Why didn't you say which one? I bet it is Fox. |
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| ▲ | walthamstow 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It doesn't matter which one. My mother mainlines BBC News which is state-owned, establishment-centrist, has no adverts or profits, but has the same effect of dialing up the viewer's fear of the outside world. |
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| ▲ | ffsm8 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | While I'm not American, calling bbc centrist in 2026 is just objectively false. It was centrist in 2000s, but it hasn't been in at least a decade. | | |
| ▲ | galangalalgol an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Whose interests does it serve now? That is the main thing to understand of you are to get anything out of news. | |
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| ▲ | Quarrelsome 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | sadly forces in the BBC also value "engagement". Idk how we got here, it never used to be like this. This is why cultural stories now are higher than before on the main site. It used to be the case that news was _just_ news. Politics, crime, economics, health, environment, etc. Now culture stories, like puff pieces about the royals or entertainment end up on the front page. | |
| ▲ | UltraSane 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | It matters very very much. Fox News is much much worse than most news channels. It was created specifically as GOP propaganda. |
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| ▲ | nancyminusone 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I had a relative for which it was CNN. We even share the same political views, but watching that stuff or having it on in the background literally from 8 am until midnight is tiring. |
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| ▲ | croisillon an hour ago | parent [-] | | when in a hotel on vacations we sometimes have a television and hence bbc or cnn... i used to nickname cnn "the fire squad": whatever the topic they're just shouting and hyperventilating... it is tiring indeed |
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| ▲ | malfist an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's actually CNN, but they flip to local news often too to hear about all the car wrecks and local murders and robberies and other things to make them afraid. Fox and CNN are both bad, but different flavors of bad. |
