[mike_hearn]

FOX isn't a private entertainment programme, it's a channel that's focused exclusively on news and current affairs. State media is the one that includes drama, comedy etc. If your argument is based on that distinction you'll have to rethink it. If it's just left wing good, right wing bad, then you've made my argument for me!

[Capricorn2481]

This is some very low effort gymnastics. Please reread the comment instead of whatever this sycophant reply was.

Nobody actually thinks Fox is high quality. That's not why they watch it. They just perceive other news to be just as bad, and it's cathartic to hear their own lies screamed back at them.

[const_cast]

> If it's just left wing good, right wing bad, then you've made my argument for me!

No, that's not my argument.

My argument is that public and private media have different incentive structures so you can't just compare them like that.

And, in addition, the right hates anything public. Of course they want to dismantle public media, because that's what they do. They want to dismantle public schools too, and social security. Because then they, and their friends, can get their slice. The problem with public programs is that rich can't buy them.

And this isn't an unfair characterization of the right, this is their explicit goals. Again, with SS, the second it was made into law it was under attack by the right. They'll lie to you and say "it's insolvent! It doesn't work! We need to privatize it... if me and my cronies control it, then it would be much better!" But of course, what happens is they sell it off, you don't get your retirement, and the money gets stolen. They know that, that's why they want to do it.

> FOX isn't a private entertainment programme, it's a channel that's focused exclusively on news and current affairs.

See, this makes me think you're trolling. Come on now.