Fox's Laura Ingraham was caught deceptively editing President Biden's comments — ironically while an onscreen graphic claimed Democrats had been caught "lying."
  • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    Does it matter? The people who believe her aren’t going to look into the quotes or even verify they happened because they think she’s right and it sounds plausible in their world view. They won’t see the articles showing she’s wrong. Laura’s not getting banned for manipulation because it’s manipulated in their favor. And if someone did ban her from appearing on Fox News she’d just hop to OANN or something instead and they’d blame “democrats” or “cancel culture” or some stupid made up reasoning for why and it’d probably strengthen their resolve in believing this BS.

  • Saneless@sh.itjust.works
    221·
    10 months ago

    They know it doesn’t matter

    The pawns will volunteer parroting the BS to all their friends. “Did you hear Biden say” and it will be a fact as far as their jello brains are concerned

  • purahna
    192·
    10 months ago

    She was not “busted”. She does it on purpose and knows that it doesn’t matter how many times she’ll be caught. She knows there will be no material consequences, not by her opponents, not by the fans, not by the legal system that’s pretends its purpose is to keep people like her in check. It doesn’t matter.

  • Bizarroland@kbin.social
    171·
    10 months ago

    My question is, why has nobody filed a lawsuit against Fox News for committing these acts of deception?

    There’s got to be an angle somewhere. They are misleading the population while claiming to be a news source. There should be some sort of ruling that says that what a news source says has to at least have some grounding in the truth to the best of the newscasters ability to verify.

    • namelessdread@lemmy.world
      131·
      10 months ago

      The law hasn’t really caught up. There are regulations from the FCC, including in regards to distributing false information, but only for broadcast television. Fox News (and many others, such as CNN, MSNBC, etc) are cable news channels run by private providers, so they are not subject to those FCC regulations.

      While companies have sued, such as Dominion, there really aren’t any grounds for the audience/consumers suing. They didn’t suffer any damages.

      That being said, there do need to be changes in how ethics are enforced in media and journalism.

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
        61·
        10 months ago

        If the law is not up to date then it seems ripe for the picking.

        Some enterprising law firm out there needs to find some clients and get on this because there’s beautiful pocket change for their cut if they can figure out exactly the right angle to take.

      • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
        11·
        10 months ago

        That under the Legal System, (we don’t have a justice System), Citizens “didn’t suffer any damages” is the telling part.

    • StalinIsMaiWaifu
      51·
      10 months ago

      Its been brought up before (tucker Carlson argued in court mo reasonable person would believe him), the TLDR is the law is outdated and nobody with power cares

  • StarServal@kbin.social
    81·
    10 months ago

    Me: “How dare they!”

    Also me: “I’m not going to investigate any further than the title because it sounds true.”

  • Zippy@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 months ago

    I watched the full video. She shortened the speech but did it change the meaning or make it deceptive? I don’t like her message much but I missed where the deception came from. It seems like an opinion piece with her fully disagreeing with Biden. Am I missing something? Real question.