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lying ABOUT people makes them not want to watch you

Nah, just sell then on big lies. Prime lies only

I don't watch Tucker but from the little I saw he does seem to be closer to the internet culture or interests so that surely plays a factor in the viewership

He also has the best WTF face.

Oh yeah

Surely memorable expression

tbh, some of Fox has gotten more palatable

thats cuz for once they're not entirely lying

he seems to be more reasonable in his approach and opinions than whatever cnn puts on the air. even if i don't agree with him i don't get insulted as -insert buzzword here-

unlike CNN

they used to be the "war on Christmas" types real focused on keeping the country christian.

Alex Jones would have fit well on there

be like the Ancient Aliens of Fox news

still might

be funny as shit, tell you that

InfoFox?

Tucker Jones? 😛

Fox never really lied. It wasn't the mainstream, but that was it's niche. And it's always an outlier.

What changed is the country took a sharp left turn around 2013 and then in 2016 the other networks went off the script and became as nutty as fox in the other direction.

Who knows what the "median" is anymore. It's all what NYC, SF and LA think. And now they're stripping everyone else's voices.

fox news lied often. but they were never big lies.

it was more like trumped up bullshit

like the war on christmas

If anything, it's not that Fox moved to the center. It's that the other networks are just crazy. Crazier than Fox somehow.

War on Christmas mattered alot to alot of people.

They just aren't in the same numbers anymore.

There are people who would say the same thing about being anti-social justice.

it wasn't a think, it all started over starbuck's holiday cup

War on Christmas has been a thing since atleast the 80s.

Probably earlier.

The really religious types have always felt Christmas is too secular.

Too commercialized.

I'm sure there's an analog in the Islamic world for example.

Tucker is ok but tv is dead

its always been commercialized

hell, even when the church picked it, it was basically a marketing move

"Tell you what, you can keep drinking and celebrating Yule, but this is Jesus's b-day party now? okay?"

Doesn't change the fact there were people who didn't like it.

oh for sure

The closest analog these days is probably all the social justice types objecting to "appropriation" and people selling things inspired by indigenous cultures.

But that's a thing in the other networks now.

Again, Fox didn't really change from what I can tell (except reworking everything to support Trump and trying to stay alive through the Media Matters onslaught). But the other networks got into some kind of ridiculous purity spiral.

And now they make fox look tame.