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With Donald Trump out of the picture, the mainstream media no longer has its daily content punching bag, so they ve turned their attention to the constant thorn in their side, Fox News.
The push to deplatform the Fox News Channel is nothing new, Media Matters for America has built its brand on targeting the network and its advertisers, but the crusade has intensified in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, with detractors saying Fox News is partially to blame for the violence.
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan recently wrote how Fox News is a hazard to our democracy, and getting more extreme. It’s time to take the fight to the Murdochs.
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In the wake of the Capitol riots and the rhetoric from fringe elements on the right that inspired it, there is once again a renewed effort to get Fox News taken off the air, as well as One America News (OAN) and Newsmax.
All three of these networks have had opinion hosts sharing their thoughts on the stolen election, and as the rhetoric got more and more heated, the people watching were in turn more and more heated.
Many of the fringiest conspiracies were not on these networks, but the stories and opinions pushed by those networks were used by the conspiracy theorists to advance their own insane theories on the November election. That, in turn, convinced a number of people that something had to be done. That “something” became a riot at the Capitol building in Washington D.C.