Fox News is currently being sued for peddling coronavirus misinformation. Still, that hasn’t stopped one of the network’s most popular hate mongers, Laura Ingraham, from continuing to spread lies about the virus on her show night after night after night.
But hopefully, thanks to a damning new report from the nonprofit media watchdog group, Media Matters, that may soon be changing.
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The report, which tallied up every statement made about coronavirus on the conservative news network, finds that the worst offender when it comes to spreading false information is Ingraham, whose lies outpace every other Fox News personality by roughly 25%.
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“Fox’s The Ingraham Angle was responsible for a quarter of all coronavirus misinformation on the network,” the watchdog group says.
Media Matters reports:
Fox host Laura Ingraham and her prime-time show The Ingraham Angle traded in coronavirus misinformation far more often than other Fox personalities and shows during the week of July 6.
Ingraham herself pushed coronavirus misinformation 38 times, which included 21 instances of undermining and misrepresenting the science on the coronavirus and 13 instances of politicizing the response to the pandemic.
Fox personalities and guests on The Ingraham Angle were responsible for an astonishing 63 instances of misinformation.
In April, Fox News was slapped with a 10-page lawsuit filed by the Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics accusing it of launching a “campaign of deception and omission regarding the danger of the international proliferation of the novel coronavirus.”
As a result, several prominent Fox News personalities were let go, including prime time darling/coronavirus denier Trish Regan and frequent guests/COVID-19 conspiracy theorists Diamond & Silk.
Perhaps Ingraham will soon join them? It seems doubtful. But one can hope, right?
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Cam
Fox will let a few small fries go, people that don’t make them money, to act like they’re doing something, so it protects the bigger fish like Ingraham.
Remember, they knew for years Bill O’Reilly sexually assaulted those women, they in fact paid off multiple accusers. They only got rid of him when his behavior went public.
Creamsicle
O’Reilly was accused decades before Fox News did anything about him. Phone recordings of his sexual harassment were turned into spoof videos in the pre-YouTube Internet.
I hope the suit is damaging enough to take down the entire network and eat into the extended Murdoch empire. Fox News has been peddling conspiracy theories with the express intent of causing doubt about public health policy and non-compliance with facemask laws that are already unenforceable if enough people choose to be dicks about it.
ThinkPlease
Free speech ruling in 3…2…
Goforit
Trumptard understanding what the 1st Amendment actually says in 3…2… but then again, probably not.
Cam
So your contention is that Laura Ingraham has the free speech right to lie, but nobody else has the free speech to disagree with her.
Ohhhhhh, Ok, got it.
Mister P
A news network should be working to make people smarter and better informed.
Fox has figured out how to make people dumber and loving it.
Chrisk
They get around it by calling themselves entertainment. If they wanted to be a news channel they’d hire actual journalists.
TonyPSP
If FOX wants to continue letting liars spread their filthy lies on air, it may be time to pull the plug on FOX. Any chance you get, turn FOX off. A FOX boycott is a tough order but if we educate our parents and the people that only have access to FOX we can shut them down. Do what you can.
hayesj
I’d love to see the cops put a knee on her neck, She has no right to exist.
Chrisk
It’s no wonder her brother called her a monster.
barryaksarben
They took off the air more than once before and jsut give her a vaa then let he come back on to lie some more. Sickening but that is rupert murdoch the nazi
mozzer
C.U.N(ext) T(uesday)….
Invader7
Those pupils look like she’s on meth. While on her knees in front of Agolf Twitterler. Another blonde West Wing WHORE !! 99.9% of republiCONS are just vapid, stupid, mindless A-HOLE D-BAGS !! Maybe they’ll all get the Corona virus and DIE !! And make the world a much better place..
butchdiva
The problem with “Fox news ” is that it isn’t registered with the FCC as a news agency, it’s registered as an entertainment outlet and not subject to much scrutiny at all. The former “Fox news ” was sued back in the early 1990s (and lost expensively) , before deciding to reregister as an entertainment outlet that just calls themselves “Fox News “. They could call themselves the Fox Space Aliens just as easily, but as an entertainment outlet it wouldn’t make it any more truthful than it does in calling themselves journalists.
Kevan1
Ignorance breeds ignorance. These people are idiots. It will take contracting the disease and dying themselves for them to believe.