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How come only Fox News has articles like this? (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ZK686@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Fox News has a bad rap on sites like Lemmy and Reddit for being "fake" and "too conservative." However, they're always reporting stuff that's actually happening, that other news outlets seem to ignore. Like this article for example, which talks about criminals being arrested at the border, yet ignored by other news outlets. I never see news like this anywhere else, when in fact it's actually happening. Why is that? Do news stations like CNN and MSNBC just think it's not a big deal? Or, do they only pander to the Left, which seems to think there's no border issues?

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[–] cygon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Breaking News: border checkpoint doing its job, normal number of criminals encountered.

Fox News: look at these cherry-picked criminals with cartel associations apprehended at the border. Take a moment to let the worry and fear rise up in you, then watch our next segment, an opinion piece where someone will make allusions to the great replacement theory and falsely claim that the Democratic party wants open borders.

Joking aside, progressives are aware that criminals exist and that some of them are crossing country borders. The critical part is whether one looks at the big whole through statistics, or whether one lets themselves be rabble-roused into irrational fear and hatred of foreigners.

Let's say my name was Mupert Rurdoch and I was running an anti-conservative news channel. Currently, murders per capita (per 1 million people) are around 70, so a population of 300 million people commits about 21000 murders per year. I could cherry-pick murders committed in red state, rural areas and make them my headline every few days. Then smoothly blend into opinion segments where the hosts talk about a "murder epidemic amongst conservatives" and mentions militias executing people and so on.