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Fox's anti-Trump hatred comes from the boardroom and requires no further evidence. Their internal divisions are not representative of their viewership, former viewership, or the voters.

Stories about spin room access come from Fox, using Trump's name to generate publicity. Candidates who use the event to attack Biden can come off well, others not. If an unemployable blowhard from New Jersey falls on a political grenade in the middle of summer, will anyone hear? Do we care?

Want real news? A meaningful, in-depth look at Trump's actual policy approach quietly aired on Fox Business last week, his interview with Larry Kudlow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHU2XNaX-Q0

The debate's most meaningful context: auditions for the Vice Presidency, and Trump's seal of approval on their futures.

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Aug 23, 2023·edited Aug 23, 2023

You could be right about the debate only being important in terms of Trump's seal of approval. His core supporters seem intent on following him anywhere, even if he lands in prison. That said, I've learned to be humble about predicting elections this far out. A whole lot of things can happen in 15 months.

You make an interesting point that Fox's "internal divisions are not representative of their viewership, former viewership, or the voters." I think that's true to some extent for most news outlets, especially big national ones. I'm the editor of a small local paper, and I'm not a perfect demographic match for my readers, who tend to be older, richer, more worldly, more educated and more liberal than me. But I think that if you set aside your identity and report the news fairly, fair-minded readers will respect that, even if you don't look/think/talk exactly like they do.

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In today's information overload environment, the biases coming from upstairs in a news organization manifest across small nuances and large patterns. I see enough Fox and WSJ to know theirs. I miss the once great journalism of the New York Times, the Atlantic, etc. but sense they'd be more annoying than illuminating now. Presently browsing an uplifiting middlebrow work "Life's Secret Handbook" with a pearl of wisdom. "Avoid tuning into frequencies that focus your thoughts on the things that irritate or upset you." I hope your community paper elevates many and irritates few. Sounds like you're in a cozy patch.

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Dems Created Systemaic Racisim since 1866

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Oh Ken. You haven't figured out one of the primary tenets of Trumpism: Rules don't apply to him, so if they're enforced against him, it must be because the people doing the enforcing hate him amd want to bring him down. Just disregard the rule of law and it'll make perfect sense.

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Taking Fat Bottomed Girls off of Queen’s greatest hits is a travesty! It’s such a fun song! Booooooooooo

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The Daily Mail article downplays an important detail: The song was only removed from the version of Queen's Greatest Hits on Yoto, a streaming platform for small kids 3 and up. The company says the average age of its users is 5. So not a case of cancel culture run amok.

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You're 100% right. They downplayed it but I should've read more carefully. I'll address it tomorrow.

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I came here to see if anyone brought this up. I support cleaning up the content aimed at small children. I'm disappointed in The Daily Mail for not clarifying what YOTO is, and for whom it's intended.

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Totally understandable. I missed it at first too until I read a Washington Post story about the controversy. It's not until five grafs in that the Daily Mail story mentions Yoto and says the service is "aimed at young people" (notice they don't say how young).

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Well that sure adds a different context!

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It does indeed.

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Tired of racisim being abused by Dems

It does NO Good

Reduces cause etc

Does nothing

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It actually does a lot to push people further apart, that's why they're hyper focused on spreading the false narrative that we're super-duper racist. Because then you can't argue that we aren't without being called ... a racist! If you point out that black people attack Asian people or that cops shoot more white unarmed suspects... then you're part of the systemic racism that goes back to the days of slavery 🙄. And it reinforces the "racism" the media & Dems scream about. So they feel justified in "hating you back" and doing violence to you.

It absolutely does something.

It absolutely

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Seeds for more Race War right, Dems WIN by divide

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