TricycleOfDeath
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CNN isn't much better than Fox. imo Anderson Cooper is almost as hard to watch as Tucker Carlson. All they care about is insulting the other side, and they only serve to divide us. Just like american politics, your options are conservative white man, or very slightly less conservative white man and they both hate each other claiming they are at either extreme.
Anyways, for ukraine, I think my preferred news for it has been the German network DW News. imo they've done a pretty good job at just presenting the facts and reporting on them.
That is absolutely ridiculous. Fox News is propaganda. Anderson is one of the straightest shooting reporters out there. Yes, his views seem liberal and he's gay, but he is a Vanderbilt, as well. Fox News is a joke - they spent 4 years supporting Trump's lies and misinformation on Ukraine. They did not hold Trump accountable - ever. CNN does attack Democratic Presidents on a regular basis... you'll find no such similarity at Fox. So, it's total BS to claim "they both do it." They don't both do it - Fox is propaganda entertainment.
Here's an ex:
Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall pushed back on Tuesday after Fox News host Greg Gutfeld accused news outlets of airing emotionally manipulative footage from Ukraine in an effort to advance a pro-war narrative.
“Speaking as someone on the ground, I want to say that this is not the media trying to drum up some emotional response,” Hall flatly stated, delivering a live report from Kyiv.
The remarks that touched off Hall’s response, meanwhile, took place moments earlier on Fox News’ highly rated talk show The Five. During a discussion on Russia targeting Ukrainian civilians in its unprovoked war on Ukraine, Gutfeld delivered a lengthy rant in which he questioned the news media’s coverage of the growing crisis.
“I can feel the galvanizing force of these stories that kind of have sped up and are accumulating to create a narrative,” the Fox News host said. “And they only go in one direction. And I understand why they only go in one direction, because it’s the invaded who experience the atrocity, right? And that’s all we’re going to see.”
He added: “However, I can’t help but feel that this is a lot like other stories that we’ve gone through in the digital age in which an image is taken and then played over and over and over again to create some kind of emotional response out of you, because that makes a profit for news companies, right?”
After going off on a tangent about the media “pummelling” the public with images of police brutality, Gutfeld then continued to accuse the media of showing horrific images and footage of the Ukrainian war to serve a specific agenda.
“The bad part is there is this galvanizing kind of narrative that is there to create a reaction, and if somebody like me says, ‘hold on a second,’ and you try to counter the drumbeat, you’re seen as an inconsiderate cold-hearted pussy,” he exclaimed. “But if you amplify that story, why can’t up you be called pro-war? If you want to push this stuff, why can’t I call you pro-war?!”
Following a commercial break, the program turned to Hall to report on the latest developments in the nearly two-week war. And the network's State Department correspondent immediately took issue with Gutfeld’s remarks.
After saying the media is not “trying to drum up some emotional response,” Hall then noted that the footage that reporters on the scene are showing is “absolutely what’s happening” in the war-torn cities in Ukraine. Hall also noted that more than two million Ukrainians have fled the country.
“It’s an absolute catastrophe and the people caught in the middle are the ones suffering,” he continued. “Don’t take it from my word take it from the word of some of those trying to flee.”
After airing testimony from Ukrainian refugees, Hall added that it's a “tragic thing that is happening in this country” and “there is more video that we know what to do with” before telling his Fox News colleagues that “we will continue to cover it for you here on the ground but it is only set to get worse.”
At the end of the segment, Gutfeld addressed Hall’s criticism of his remarks, attempting a bit of sarcasm at first.