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Dear ElvinTapper:
Fox News blatantly and deliberately lied to its viewers about the election being stolen, when every one--from Carlson to Hannity to Ingraham to Murdoch himself--admitted privately it was not true.
Why? Because they feared losing their viewers to Newsmax.
In short, they knowingly incited an insurrection and attack on the capitol building, because they cared more about their precious ratings than the stability of our democracy. In any other era, that would be considered treasonous.
Please cite ONE example of NPR or CNN doing anything comparable.
False equivalence.
Suffice it to say that CNN's lockstep reporting of the "Russian Collusion" is pretty damn close to anything that Fox has pushed. As to NPR, when they do a piece on benign but newsworthy topics, like medicine, natural disasters, music, entertainment, science, etc., they do a decent job. However, when they present more volatile topics like politics, immigration, abortion, BLM, SCOTUS, parents/education, transgender issues, etc., NPR always advocates for the left's position on these topics - always. I would say that NPR's "softer" tones and fake balanced coverage of these kinds of issues are equivalent to the bombast of Fox. As 'FromtheEastside" correctly posted, Fox doesn't pretend to be anything other than the Right's mouthpiece, while NPR pretends to speak from a neutral, balanced position.
Mr. Carter - a very good person, not so very good POTUS.
Fox News, toxic to the right, OK. CNN and NPR are toxic to the left, and yet Littleford, you show them no joy.