>Multiple Fox News employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according to legal filings.
>The employees’ statements were excerpted in a 771-page filing released last week, made public as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the network by voting technology company Smartmatic.
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One anonymous employee said that Fox should “change the misogynist, racist, rightwing content,” adding, “Fox News is a propaganda machine for the Republican party NOT a news organization and should be acknowledged as such. It is embarrassing to tell people that I work here as even conservatives know [Fox News Channel] and [Fox Business Network] are biased information sources – not news.” While the employee called the work environment “great,” they said “the content is hateful and has made the world a more divided and angry place”.
>“I sometimes go home fighting back tears,” an employee said. “This network made me question my morals. Have I sold my soul to the devil?”
>An employee said the network should “get out of Trump’s pocket” and realize that its most prominent hosts – including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity – “are a total embarrassment, peddling BS and conspiracy theories”. “Many days I feel like I am part of the problem and FNC is contributing to hatred in this country,” the person said.
>“This company aligns itself with the current administration and has lost its integrity,” an employee said. “I wish there was purpose for what we do other than pushing the brand, ideology and political will of [the president],” another comment read.
>Many of the comments dealt specifically with the network’s conservative opinion hosts, rather than its news division. “I wish that management would crack down on conspiracy theories and hateful rhetoric spewed by such hosts,” an employee said. “We need to stand up for our real journalists and have more focus on news gathering and reporting to change our credibility and the way we are perceived.”
bagjoe on
Gambling? In Casablanca?
PeopleB4Profit on
We have known this, just have no leadership willing to end it! But let’s get that fkn traitor Kimball and shut him down!
Dominion Voting Systems Settlement was announced on 4/18/23! 4/19/23 dem leadership decided NOT to do anything about a media organization that its founder confessed to purposely LYING about the results of a fair and free election, to help the trump admin and republican party! These STOCHASTIC TERRORIST LIES, were instrumental in the “attack on the USA government on 1/6/21”! AGAIN, on 1/7/21 Dems asked the republican party for help in impeaching a republican president that led an attack on the USA with the intent on KILLING the VP and the Speaker of the House! Republicans refused to assist and even “hang mike pence” refused to assist in impeaching a man that was having him and his family hunted!
Every PENNY of murdoch wealth in the USA should be seized, all assets seized and no murdoch ever allowed into the USA ever again or allowed to own a business in the USA! Everything happening is possible due to rupert murdoch and that pig ailes!
StrangerFew2424 on
*IS intentionally aiding Trump..
StevenMC19 on
Ooh, you know it’s getting spicy when the phone calls start coming in from inside the house!
mecon320 on
I can only assume these people were hired decades ago and kept in suspended animation ever since, because how is this something you merely have “concerns” over?
Fox “News” has unambiguously been the propaganda mouthpiece of the Republican Party for so many years, I can’t remember if they ever pretended to be anything else.
BootyOptions on
I wonder what the turning point was for them to notice this.
It’s been 100% crystal clear obvious for Trump’s entire political career.
NAStrahl on
r/NoShitSherlock
faith_apnea on
> survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020
No excuse; however I assume $4k for rent, no jobs and that terrible economy Trump left in the first term stopped them from complaining too hard though.
blackmobius on
> concerns
Its kinda obvious theyve been helping the gop and Maga/tea party since their inception.
jdgmental on
Not expressed enough I fear!
jonnycanuck67 on
“Expressed concerns” lol
thomport on
Investigate! Put these people in jail. we can’t tolerate treason and survive.
Dexx009 on
Concerns about the network achieving its only purpose?
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That’s their mission statement isn’t it?
He siegs, you heil.
>Multiple Fox News employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according to legal filings.
>The employees’ statements were excerpted in a 771-page filing released last week, made public as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the network by voting technology company Smartmatic.
…
One anonymous employee said that Fox should “change the misogynist, racist, rightwing content,” adding, “Fox News is a propaganda machine for the Republican party NOT a news organization and should be acknowledged as such. It is embarrassing to tell people that I work here as even conservatives know [Fox News Channel] and [Fox Business Network] are biased information sources – not news.” While the employee called the work environment “great,” they said “the content is hateful and has made the world a more divided and angry place”.
>“I sometimes go home fighting back tears,” an employee said. “This network made me question my morals. Have I sold my soul to the devil?”
>An employee said the network should “get out of Trump’s pocket” and realize that its most prominent hosts – including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity – “are a total embarrassment, peddling BS and conspiracy theories”. “Many days I feel like I am part of the problem and FNC is contributing to hatred in this country,” the person said.
>“This company aligns itself with the current administration and has lost its integrity,” an employee said. “I wish there was purpose for what we do other than pushing the brand, ideology and political will of [the president],” another comment read.
>Many of the comments dealt specifically with the network’s conservative opinion hosts, rather than its news division. “I wish that management would crack down on conspiracy theories and hateful rhetoric spewed by such hosts,” an employee said. “We need to stand up for our real journalists and have more focus on news gathering and reporting to change our credibility and the way we are perceived.”
Gambling? In Casablanca?
We have known this, just have no leadership willing to end it! But let’s get that fkn traitor Kimball and shut him down!
Dominion Voting Systems Settlement was announced on 4/18/23! 4/19/23 dem leadership decided NOT to do anything about a media organization that its founder confessed to purposely LYING about the results of a fair and free election, to help the trump admin and republican party! These STOCHASTIC TERRORIST LIES, were instrumental in the “attack on the USA government on 1/6/21”! AGAIN, on 1/7/21 Dems asked the republican party for help in impeaching a republican president that led an attack on the USA with the intent on KILLING the VP and the Speaker of the House! Republicans refused to assist and even “hang mike pence” refused to assist in impeaching a man that was having him and his family hunted!
Every PENNY of murdoch wealth in the USA should be seized, all assets seized and no murdoch ever allowed into the USA ever again or allowed to own a business in the USA! Everything happening is possible due to rupert murdoch and that pig ailes!
*IS intentionally aiding Trump..
Ooh, you know it’s getting spicy when the phone calls start coming in from inside the house!
I can only assume these people were hired decades ago and kept in suspended animation ever since, because how is this something you merely have “concerns” over?
The water is wet
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Public_Enlightenment_and_Propaganda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Public_Enlightenment_and_Propaganda)
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No shit Sherlock
Fox “News” has unambiguously been the propaganda mouthpiece of the Republican Party for so many years, I can’t remember if they ever pretended to be anything else.
I wonder what the turning point was for them to notice this.
It’s been 100% crystal clear obvious for Trump’s entire political career.
r/NoShitSherlock
> survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020
No excuse; however I assume $4k for rent, no jobs and that terrible economy Trump left in the first term stopped them from complaining too hard though.
> concerns
Its kinda obvious theyve been helping the gop and Maga/tea party since their inception.
Not expressed enough I fear!
“Expressed concerns” lol
Investigate! Put these people in jail. we can’t tolerate treason and survive.
Concerns about the network achieving its only purpose?
Only in 2020?