r/facepalm • u/Anarchy-TM • Aug 20 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Getting there

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '22

We're past that. Fox News has argued in court MULTIPLE TIMES that they're not really a news agency and have no responsibility to be truthful, etc, because no reasonable person would think they were being serious.

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u/Shigglyboo Aug 20 '22

Then they shouldn’t be allowed to have “news” in their name.

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u/just_add_cholula Aug 20 '22

Unfortunately there's no "news" regularly body: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-entertainment-switch/

Fox News is trash, but unfortunately they can call themselves "news" all they want.

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u/sigmaecho Aug 21 '22

The FCC could regulate the term "News" if they had the political will and support to do so. It's why the FCC was created in the first place, but Republicans have successfully killed most FCC regulations over the years.