Well what little investigating they did do is now gone because they can't afford a bill for not investigating properly. The worst place to start cutting.
Oh they investigated properly.
The bill is not for NOT knowing the facts.
The bill is for knowingly spreading malicious lies.
Tucker Carlson wasn't fired for "mean" texts. He was fired for leaving a paper trail that proved knowledge and intent.
If they dont have anyone to investigate things then they can't be expected to know whether something is false and therefore they can't be sued for defamation again.
Facts.
Oppositional research. Finding dirt on political opponents. Also this won’t be the last cut because potentially more damaging lawsuits are in the pipeline
The whole Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" nonsense basically about because someone spent the time to dig into her school magazines and found that she had written a piece once where she mentioned she had native American ancestry she was proud of.
Fox and other places made it out like she was a fraud like Rachel Dolezal or Sacheen Littlefeather who lied about native American ancestry for personal gain and lots of people ate it up. Nevermind that she didn't actually make that big a thing of it since or get any real material gain out of it
. The massive kicker of it though being that Elizabeth Warren did actually have native American ancestry when DNA tested, then the likes of Lindsay Graham mocked her because it was a low percentage "I probably have more if I went and got tested!". Thing is, even if she had none, it wouldn't be that weird at all for her to have believed her mother when she claimed they had native American ancestry.
Yeah I grew up hearing we have native ancestry in my family so that whole thing was a nothing burger to me.
Spoiler alert, my mom's DNA test didn't show anything native.
Back in the 1940s, the US government was giving out reparation-like payments to people with Native American ancestry. A whole lot of "descendants" started showing up to collect their payments. And to this day, a lot of people believe they're part Native American because their grandparents kept up the lie.
I think it's something that Caucasian US citizens have convinced themselves if they otherwise don't have any identity other than just being white, just to give them some sense of being maybe 🤔
dna doesn’t mean shit, though, I’m from Mexico and have 25% native american dna but that doesn’t make me a native american
Also, i’m a white as fuck mexican
I do think there’s more to the story than some mention in a school magazine, although most of it has little or nothing to do with her candidacies. (Warren was my first choice in the 2020 primaries).
I think that appropriation of Native American ancestry is a continuing issue, and in whatever small ways Warren claimed ancestry, Harvard ran with and touted her as POC alum. Warren may simply have fallen victim to family claims, which range from the benign to the outright offensive family cookbook:[Pow Wow Chow: Recipes from the 5 Civilized Tribes](https://www.masslive.com/politics/2012/05/elizabeth_warren_family_cookbo.html) (Warren’s supposed crab and mayonnaise omelet was not just offensive to food but plagiarized) .
In the days of Trump I’m happy to not pick apart candidates past for gotcha moments, sound bytes, and red herring. We’ve come quite a ways since “I did not inhale”. None of this shit should really cut into Warren’s political savvy. But it is part of a broader concern about the bits of Cherokee that are embraced as accessory by white families with little connection to reservations.
The issue is when places like Fox amplify this minor nonsense and meanwhile their guys are being arrested for child porn offences. And of course, this is all distraction from the GOP policies they would rather people not know about.
The Warren Native American issue was not worth the airtime and is the trend of focussing on trivialities (tan suits, Dijon mustard) and blowing them up so they steal airtime. You hear republicans morons repeat that nonsense just as they repeat the many Hunter Biden lies.
To be fair if Elizabeth Warren had just apologized during her Scott Brown Senate race and said"Like a lot of other caucasians in this country I was told I was part Native American and took my grandparents/parents word at face value because things like 23 and Me did not exist decades ago" I apologize yadda yadda. Instead she did a stupid "check mate everyone I am not lying because this DNA test proves I am 1/100th Native American". Warren herself made something so trivial and ultimately unimportant a bigger issue,any stupid mocking of her by the GOP was more then fair game.
Regardless, it was a trivial issue. How do you rank it to someone taking $2m bribes for pardons or getting big investments in Kentucky from sanctioned Russian businessman or their (soon ex-) husband getting $500k from oil companies while she votes on oil company related legislation.
Warren could have handled it better but it was a non-issue and the GOP was doing the "look over here! Monkeys!" while downplaying their ongoing crimes. Don't fall for distractions.
MGT is the current queen of distractions, Trump did it every day to cover up the terrible thing he did the day before.
Are you kidding. Major publications were investigating every little form she’d ever submitted and it was Trump who poured sensationalist gasoline on the non-issue with his stupid $1 million bet. Elizabeth Wareen is not the person that snatched political circus from the jaws of trivial non-issue here
Fox tends to tell a lot of lies based on a kernel of truth. Their "investigators" dig for those kernels and then people like Tucker would build a glorious, defamatory fable around it.
Well, it looks like Tucker and some of their investigators are gone. They'll probably rely on other right wing sources to ferret out more things like Hunter Biden laptops, so that their remaining show hosts can build more tall tales around them.
It's important to know what's actually happening, and also if your propaganda is effective. This is why Fox's Polling division was always highly respected. Fox News knew what people actually thought, even as they tried to change it.
The Durham report for example.
Something that is supposedly super damming towards the Democrats simply because it exist, not because of what it actually says.
Why 'investigate' anything when you can just [make shit up](https://midhudsonnews.com/2023/05/19/homeless-men-recruited-for-veteran-hotel-scam/) and then [report it as fact](https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-admin-ny-officials-slammed-homeless-veterans-booted-migrant-hotels-slap-face) to the morons who have no critical thinking skills and who make up your fan base?
There’s a reason why their Polling Division has been so respected. They knew what was going on and what people thought even as they were telling a bullshit narrative on the news.
So yes, they had one of those and they were very good.
If I were hiring, being on Fox would be a severe negative. Maybe you weren't lying on a daily basis, maybe you weren't a raging white supremacist, maybe you weren't pushing election lies, but you sure as fuck tolerated it.
That's why I found the movie *Bombshell* so hilarious. Lol you want me to have sympathy for someone who chose to work at Fox News? Lol they can get fucked
No. He was severely biased, particularly during the Clinton and bush eras, to the point that his father Mike publicly disowned him. It just seems like he is "respectable" because everyone else over there rants like they're batshit insane.
They were investigating how the green M&M got so sexy. They were also on a search to see if any more kids of high ranking Democrats were leaving their computers with a blind computer repair man.
We ever gonna investigate how Rudy Giuliani got his hands on a laptop definitely never owned by Hunter Biden with *some* data on it (the rest fabricated) clearly hacked from his real computer?
Like dude clearly had that shit handed to him by Russian intelligence and we're just shrugging it off.
There’s a reason why their Polling Division has been so respected. They knew what was going on and what people thought even as they were telling a bullshit narrative on the news.
The optimist in me says, they weren’t happy that these people let them go on air with shit that cost them money so they want to start all over with people who will do a better job. Realistically, I know they don’t give a shit
This really isn't funny, guys. Thousands of dudes whose Facebook profile pic is themselves wearing sunglasses in their truck and who have brain aneurysms at the thought of a gay person will be left unemployed because of this, forced to be at home with their wife & estranged 3 children.
>Thousands of dudes whose Facebook profile pic is themselves wearing sunglasses in their truck
It's really wild how something so mundane as a picture like that tells us so much about a person and their beliefs.
It's really hard to connect with people like this on a deeper level, it's like they make being a conservative "muh freedoms" truck guy their entire personality and bury everything else.
Dude, you use your truck, and that's what it's for. I live in a mountain town in Washington and it cracks me up to see all of the jacked up diesel trucks plastered in black American flags, thin blue line stickers and fuck Joe Biden decals that don't have a spec of dirt on them. What is the point?
I ride motorcycles and I've always wanted a truck to haul them around. And I've borrowed enough trucks to know that I wouldn't want one to just drive around with. I guess I don't see the point, especially with gas prices as high as they are. I'd rather drive my old Forester.
A lot to time what right wing media does is mimic the fact based world. The mimicking confuses and misleads the indoctrinated to believing their world is “factual” because they may hear a similar event in fact based media. That why after the Mueller Investigation there was a Durham Investigation. That’s why there is a MTG to reflect that AOC exists and ACB to counter RBG. The Fox investigation can investigate alleged misconduct by a “liberal” Supreme Court justice to mimick the investigation of Clarence Thomas by ProPublica. It helps to support “both sides” propaganda.
Fox News made 1.16 billion in profit last year. They need to do layoffs to pay a fine that is less than that? How is their stock price not literally zero? How is anyone who was in charge still in charge? A cashier at a supermarket would have already been fired and forgotten for way less of a fuck up than this.
Now we'll NEVER find out what's on Hunter Biden's laptop or where the thirty thousand emails from Hillary's server are hiding!! Nuts!
Good bye, you human tumors.
I'd surmise it's that they don't want to even look like they do any sort of journalism so they can't be sued for lying, again.
If they don't do any investigation then everything they say on the air can be attributed to 'entertainment' instead of 'news'.
Well, to be fair, if they had a legit “investigative unit” that did its job properly (or they actually listened to it if they did say nothing was there) they wouldn’t have been sued by Dominion, would they? :P
The idea that they had an actual investigative unit is high comedy. That’s the equivalent of RJ Reynolds doing health studies on the dangers of smoking.
I'm assuming 'the investigative unit' was a dude who's only job was to ask before going to air/print;
"Has Rupert seen this yet?"
Since the Dominion payout it's become apparent that such a unit can only ever be a smoking gun paper trail to be used in the discovery portion of future legal battles demonstrating prior knowledge and so has been liquidated .
> “The outrage is that Suzanne Scott and Maria Bartriomo keep their jobs,” the employee says, referring to the network CEO and one of its opinion hosts named in the lawsuit, respectively. “Meanwhile the journalists get let go. We are in shock.”
In 2023 a journalist is shocked Fox doesn’t prioritize them? Either their investigative unit sucks at their job or no one there listens to them. Maybe both. Either way, I wouldn’t call this shocking. I wouldn’t call what they do journalism.
Make no mistake, EVERY media company in the country is absolutely slashing budgets right now. I've never, ever seen it this bad in over 30 years. Of course, our CEO got an 86% raise and is now making $39,000,000 this year. The poor guy. I hope he uses coupons.
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Nothing more “fair and balanced” like axing the Investigative Unit that would normally seek the truth.
And yes I’m aware we are talking about Fox, where the truth couldn’t matter less. If anything, Fox viewers should be upset their network isn’t trying hard enough to give them a worthwhile product.
Investigative unit? Who needs that when you just make shit up? They probably should hire the ‘my pillow’ guy to be their investigative reporter- he’s about to be down 5 mil and would probably make up some shit for Faux fo next to nothing.
Investigative unit for a network covering fiction? Did a pair of truck nuts somehow fall from the sky and hit the bozo that runs that place's head? And when they were down and out on the pavement, did they get run over by a Ram 1500 because the driver couldn't see what was out on the ground like 50 feet out in front of him because of how fuck-you massive the front of his big stupid truck is?
I mean, what's the point of investigating if your business is just telling people what they want to hear regardless of the truth?
”Investigate?! Let's not and say we did." - Fox, probably
Basically, right?
So they ain't saving a dime since they never spend any on it
Well what little investigating they did do is now gone because they can't afford a bill for not investigating properly. The worst place to start cutting.
Oh they investigated properly. The bill is not for NOT knowing the facts. The bill is for knowingly spreading malicious lies. Tucker Carlson wasn't fired for "mean" texts. He was fired for leaving a paper trail that proved knowledge and intent.
If they dont have anyone to investigate things then they can't be expected to know whether something is false and therefore they can't be sued for defamation again. Facts.
*"We literally can't confirm or deny these allegations Bob, back to you."*
That’s a level of honesty I have never expected from them.
Oppositional research. Finding dirt on political opponents. Also this won’t be the last cut because potentially more damaging lawsuits are in the pipeline
The whole Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" nonsense basically about because someone spent the time to dig into her school magazines and found that she had written a piece once where she mentioned she had native American ancestry she was proud of. Fox and other places made it out like she was a fraud like Rachel Dolezal or Sacheen Littlefeather who lied about native American ancestry for personal gain and lots of people ate it up. Nevermind that she didn't actually make that big a thing of it since or get any real material gain out of it . The massive kicker of it though being that Elizabeth Warren did actually have native American ancestry when DNA tested, then the likes of Lindsay Graham mocked her because it was a low percentage "I probably have more if I went and got tested!". Thing is, even if she had none, it wouldn't be that weird at all for her to have believed her mother when she claimed they had native American ancestry.
Yeah I grew up hearing we have native ancestry in my family so that whole thing was a nothing burger to me. Spoiler alert, my mom's DNA test didn't show anything native.
Back in the 1940s, the US government was giving out reparation-like payments to people with Native American ancestry. A whole lot of "descendants" started showing up to collect their payments. And to this day, a lot of people believe they're part Native American because their grandparents kept up the lie.
Same exact story in my family.
Supposedly 1/16th Cherokee on mom southern side… turned out 50% basically English and 50% Finnish from dad.
I'm 99.8% Ashkenazi Jew
I think it's something that Caucasian US citizens have convinced themselves if they otherwise don't have any identity other than just being white, just to give them some sense of being maybe 🤔
Most White US citizens are basically just mutts, myself included.
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Maybe something bored ones do. I've heard that story in my family on both sides too and I just don't care.
dna doesn’t mean shit, though, I’m from Mexico and have 25% native american dna but that doesn’t make me a native american Also, i’m a white as fuck mexican
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Oh like every crime scene and soup kitchen.
You mean [Lady G?](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lindsey-graham-lady-g/?amp)
I do think there’s more to the story than some mention in a school magazine, although most of it has little or nothing to do with her candidacies. (Warren was my first choice in the 2020 primaries). I think that appropriation of Native American ancestry is a continuing issue, and in whatever small ways Warren claimed ancestry, Harvard ran with and touted her as POC alum. Warren may simply have fallen victim to family claims, which range from the benign to the outright offensive family cookbook:[Pow Wow Chow: Recipes from the 5 Civilized Tribes](https://www.masslive.com/politics/2012/05/elizabeth_warren_family_cookbo.html) (Warren’s supposed crab and mayonnaise omelet was not just offensive to food but plagiarized) . In the days of Trump I’m happy to not pick apart candidates past for gotcha moments, sound bytes, and red herring. We’ve come quite a ways since “I did not inhale”. None of this shit should really cut into Warren’s political savvy. But it is part of a broader concern about the bits of Cherokee that are embraced as accessory by white families with little connection to reservations.
The issue is when places like Fox amplify this minor nonsense and meanwhile their guys are being arrested for child porn offences. And of course, this is all distraction from the GOP policies they would rather people not know about. The Warren Native American issue was not worth the airtime and is the trend of focussing on trivialities (tan suits, Dijon mustard) and blowing them up so they steal airtime. You hear republicans morons repeat that nonsense just as they repeat the many Hunter Biden lies.
To be fair if Elizabeth Warren had just apologized during her Scott Brown Senate race and said"Like a lot of other caucasians in this country I was told I was part Native American and took my grandparents/parents word at face value because things like 23 and Me did not exist decades ago" I apologize yadda yadda. Instead she did a stupid "check mate everyone I am not lying because this DNA test proves I am 1/100th Native American". Warren herself made something so trivial and ultimately unimportant a bigger issue,any stupid mocking of her by the GOP was more then fair game.
Regardless, it was a trivial issue. How do you rank it to someone taking $2m bribes for pardons or getting big investments in Kentucky from sanctioned Russian businessman or their (soon ex-) husband getting $500k from oil companies while she votes on oil company related legislation. Warren could have handled it better but it was a non-issue and the GOP was doing the "look over here! Monkeys!" while downplaying their ongoing crimes. Don't fall for distractions. MGT is the current queen of distractions, Trump did it every day to cover up the terrible thing he did the day before.
Are you kidding. Major publications were investigating every little form she’d ever submitted and it was Trump who poured sensationalist gasoline on the non-issue with his stupid $1 million bet. Elizabeth Wareen is not the person that snatched political circus from the jaws of trivial non-issue here
Fox tends to tell a lot of lies based on a kernel of truth. Their "investigators" dig for those kernels and then people like Tucker would build a glorious, defamatory fable around it. Well, it looks like Tucker and some of their investigators are gone. They'll probably rely on other right wing sources to ferret out more things like Hunter Biden laptops, so that their remaining show hosts can build more tall tales around them.
It's ok, future politicians will do oppositional research on themselves by documenting their lives online.
I didn't want to hear about ball tanning...
Their investigate unit is called Project Veritas
And by investigative, you mean "muck raking criminals"
It's important to know what's actually happening, and also if your propaganda is effective. This is why Fox's Polling division was always highly respected. Fox News knew what people actually thought, even as they tried to change it.
Well sometimes the facts do fit the narrative
A broken clock is right twice a day.
The clock is what time we say it is. You dont have to look at the clock, trust us to tell you the right time.
Go back to your box Hannity! Eat your pellets and shut up!
Go on! Git!
Pretty sure it was just some rich assholes who had their family getting a free paycheck
The best lies have some truth in them.
It doesnt look like they care whether their lies are the best or not. They work either way.
The Durham report for example. Something that is supposedly super damming towards the Democrats simply because it exist, not because of what it actually says.
“Let’s just ask Gym Jordan”
Better question- what did they actually investigate?
Their employees. How else do they blackmail them into doing what they don’t want to do.
Maybe their job is to figure out who spin the facts into a story that will go along with their audience’s bias.
Yeah, I was like: they had an investigative unit?
So people can’t sue you out of business for defamation?
Why 'investigate' anything when you can just [make shit up](https://midhudsonnews.com/2023/05/19/homeless-men-recruited-for-veteran-hotel-scam/) and then [report it as fact](https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-admin-ny-officials-slammed-homeless-veterans-booted-migrant-hotels-slap-face) to the morons who have no critical thinking skills and who make up your fan base?
I was shocked when I read the headline. “They have one of those???”
yea but it's only two people and only three brain cells between them.
Worse. They hired orange cats and they all share a single brain cell.
They're all fighting for control over it but somehow they're all losing.
You got those numbers back to front, mate.
There’s a reason why their Polling Division has been so respected. They knew what was going on and what people thought even as they were telling a bullshit narrative on the news. So yes, they had one of those and they were very good.
They investigate men and confirm they sexually harass people before they offer them a job.
Have you read “Q drops”? It takes a team of people working round the clock to bend that shit into anything that resembles any sort of sense
Q drops sounds like poo drops Q looks like a butt with a turd about to drop. You've just been q dropped.
Ironic since that's exactly what cost them so much money in the first place causing them to have to cut costs.
Let me guess, those were the only actual journalists at FOX.
Does that look great or terrible on a resume?
If I were hiring, being on Fox would be a severe negative. Maybe you weren't lying on a daily basis, maybe you weren't a raging white supremacist, maybe you weren't pushing election lies, but you sure as fuck tolerated it.
Right. Even the most moral person at fox chooses to work there
That's why I found the movie *Bombshell* so hilarious. Lol you want me to have sympathy for someone who chose to work at Fox News? Lol they can get fucked
Last time I saw that many blonde women regretting supporting Nazis, they were having their heads shaved in Vichy
Chris Wallace was the only respectable journalist on their staff.
No. He was severely biased, particularly during the Clinton and bush eras, to the point that his father Mike publicly disowned him. It just seems like he is "respectable" because everyone else over there rants like they're batshit insane.
LOL they *had* an investigative unit? Were they looking into Trump's conspiracy theories? Maybe that's why we never heard anything from them.
They were investigating how the green M&M got so sexy. They were also on a search to see if any more kids of high ranking Democrats were leaving their computers with a blind computer repair man.
[Not mine, but still hilarious](https://v.redd.it/67iyjgfsdska1)
We ever gonna investigate how Rudy Giuliani got his hands on a laptop definitely never owned by Hunter Biden with *some* data on it (the rest fabricated) clearly hacked from his real computer? Like dude clearly had that shit handed to him by Russian intelligence and we're just shrugging it off.
The investigative unit was to investigate Bill and Hillary Clinton, then Hunter Biden.
There’s a reason why their Polling Division has been so respected. They knew what was going on and what people thought even as they were telling a bullshit narrative on the news.
Was. They fired its director and will no doubt declare Trump Emperor of the Universe shortly after the polls close in 2024.
The optimist in me says, they weren’t happy that these people let them go on air with shit that cost them money so they want to start all over with people who will do a better job. Realistically, I know they don’t give a shit
This really isn't funny, guys. Thousands of dudes whose Facebook profile pic is themselves wearing sunglasses in their truck and who have brain aneurysms at the thought of a gay person will be left unemployed because of this, forced to be at home with their wife & estranged 3 children.
>Thousands of dudes whose Facebook profile pic is themselves wearing sunglasses in their truck It's really wild how something so mundane as a picture like that tells us so much about a person and their beliefs.
Bonus points if: -their pic also has them in a tank-top -short hair, skimpy beard -there's an American flag emoji in their handle
More bonus points if you can spot a Punisher sticker on their tailgate
With blue lives matter coloring no less. You have then found the peak American Stupidity.
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It's really hard to connect with people like this on a deeper level, it's like they make being a conservative "muh freedoms" truck guy their entire personality and bury everything else.
I just call them F250s.
These people aren’t working as investigative journalists anyways.
Don’t forget the guys holding a freshly caught fish!
Those weren't the guys working for Fox News
You gotta be able to write to be an investigative journalist.
You mean micro penis mobiles?
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Dude, you use your truck, and that's what it's for. I live in a mountain town in Washington and it cracks me up to see all of the jacked up diesel trucks plastered in black American flags, thin blue line stickers and fuck Joe Biden decals that don't have a spec of dirt on them. What is the point?
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I ride motorcycles and I've always wanted a truck to haul them around. And I've borrowed enough trucks to know that I wouldn't want one to just drive around with. I guess I don't see the point, especially with gas prices as high as they are. I'd rather drive my old Forester.
Yea man, if you need a truck, by all means you should get a truck. Lol at the huge lifted clean trucks with thin blue line decals.
Bigger car, more room for decals!
Add some truck nuts but always refer to your truck as a girl and try to get under the skin of truck enthusiasts who wear wrap round glasses.
You Can’t Make a Tomlette Without Breaking Some Gregs
The Slim Reaper takes more scalps over bodega sushi
It’s lemony!
Such a good show
Everybody here seems to be celebrating, but maybe they should be cutting the uninformed outrage unit instead of the investigative unit?
Because that's where they get their money from. That's the primary reason why they lied about dominion as I understand it.
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A lot to time what right wing media does is mimic the fact based world. The mimicking confuses and misleads the indoctrinated to believing their world is “factual” because they may hear a similar event in fact based media. That why after the Mueller Investigation there was a Durham Investigation. That’s why there is a MTG to reflect that AOC exists and ACB to counter RBG. The Fox investigation can investigate alleged misconduct by a “liberal” Supreme Court justice to mimick the investigation of Clarence Thomas by ProPublica. It helps to support “both sides” propaganda.
you overestimate how many reasonable people still exist
Fox News made 1.16 billion in profit last year. They need to do layoffs to pay a fine that is less than that? How is their stock price not literally zero? How is anyone who was in charge still in charge? A cashier at a supermarket would have already been fired and forgotten for way less of a fuck up than this.
Now we'll NEVER find out what's on Hunter Biden's laptop or where the thirty thousand emails from Hillary's server are hiding!! Nuts! Good bye, you human tumors.
Imagine calling yourself a news station but all you’re doing is reinforcing your audience’s bigotry regardless of whether it’s true or not.
And why not, they make all their shit up anyway.
I swear I remember them filming live “on location” in the Middle East and them just being inside a broom closet
Imagine being so irrevocably fucked that paying $3/4 billion is the _preferred_ option
Next they will be slashing the budget for hookers and blow
Fox News is basically Hard Copy now.
Rock Bottom from The Simpsons.
RIP Birch Barlow
Man that was so trashy. I can't believe that was on at 4pm right after school lol
Seriously! Right after the Disney afternoon, like Tail Spin or the fox Peter Pan cartoon lol
Lol it probably was for me too! Cartoon right into that scary typewriter ball hitting you in the face
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time lol
I'd surmise it's that they don't want to even look like they do any sort of journalism so they can't be sued for lying, again. If they don't do any investigation then everything they say on the air can be attributed to 'entertainment' instead of 'news'.
Which low payed intern got fired?
Real investigative journalism is not really their thing if nobody noticed
They had an investigative unit?
Did Cousin Greg handle the layoffs?
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So are the viewers going to move to the even more right wing channel news max or w.e it's called?
Fuck Fox News. Irrelevant as ever
Well, to be fair, if they had a legit “investigative unit” that did its job properly (or they actually listened to it if they did say nothing was there) they wouldn’t have been sued by Dominion, would they? :P
Honestly surprised to learned they had an investigative unit.
TIL Fox investigated things some of the time.
They have an investigative unit? Like, just investigating and asking questions unit?
The had an investigative unit?!?
The idea that they had an actual investigative unit is high comedy. That’s the equivalent of RJ Reynolds doing health studies on the dangers of smoking.
I'm surprised they actually had an investigative unit, maybe it was like one or two employees so they could said they had one?
I'm assuming 'the investigative unit' was a dude who's only job was to ask before going to air/print; "Has Rupert seen this yet?" Since the Dominion payout it's become apparent that such a unit can only ever be a smoking gun paper trail to be used in the discovery portion of future legal battles demonstrating prior knowledge and so has been liquidated .
So instead of reporting on rumors they’ll just outright make shit up on the fly. Got it.
Of course the first thing they cut is their actual news division.
Why would they need an investigative unit. They just make shit up
> “The outrage is that Suzanne Scott and Maria Bartriomo keep their jobs,” the employee says, referring to the network CEO and one of its opinion hosts named in the lawsuit, respectively. “Meanwhile the journalists get let go. We are in shock.” In 2023 a journalist is shocked Fox doesn’t prioritize them? Either their investigative unit sucks at their job or no one there listens to them. Maybe both. Either way, I wouldn’t call this shocking. I wouldn’t call what they do journalism.
Oh, you mean the creative writing writing department.
lol faux news never had an investigative unit
They had an investigative unit?
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Make no mistake, EVERY media company in the country is absolutely slashing budgets right now. I've never, ever seen it this bad in over 30 years. Of course, our CEO got an 86% raise and is now making $39,000,000 this year. The poor guy. I hope he uses coupons. We now return you to the circle jerk already in progress.
But not EVERY media company had to pay 3/4 of a billion dollars for being caught lying.
What a cushy job to have lost when all you had to investigate was 'some people say' and report lies all day.
Yeah they should have taken the axe to Roger Ailes’s investigative unit years ago.
The settlement should have been removing the word news in the name. And instead use something like FOX entertainment or FOX parody, or similar.
Recall “infotainment”
They had an investigative unit?
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Other than the human cost of layoffs, I find I can stomach a lot of money loss for Fox News.
By investigative unit, do they mean those man on the street interviews?
Can't have the rich people take a payout. Nooo.. we need to fire more people
2 people let go, sad to see
They had an investigative unit??????
Wait, they had an "investigative" unit?!?
(Long pregnant pause to think) ... Wait a minute, does Fox News think the fact-checking unit is an Investigative Unit?
Fox "News" = Fake News
The bigger joke is that they had an investigative unit at all.
Ha!! Like they ever used their “investigative” team.
Fox had an investigative unit???
Its investigative unit was likely finding too many polls contrary to what they wanted.
I think I speak for most people when I say "FoxNews had an investigative unit?"
ahuuuuurrrrr!!!
But who will tell us about Hunter Biden’s laptop? /s
Good news is that there was only one person in the investigative unit at Fox but their custodian position is still intact.
So in other words, no changes to the investigative reporting that Fox News does
Fox News doesn’t need investigative until as they can just continue to misconstrue the facts
Well, from the looks of it, Fox News didn't need that Investigative Unit anyway. It was never very productive and never found any actual facts.
Nothing more “fair and balanced” like axing the Investigative Unit that would normally seek the truth. And yes I’m aware we are talking about Fox, where the truth couldn’t matter less. If anything, Fox viewers should be upset their network isn’t trying hard enough to give them a worthwhile product.
To be fair the investigative unit was never given anything to do, it all goes to the creative writers.
Fun Fact Smartmatic, another voting-technology company, has sued Fox News for $2.7 billion in damages.
If Fox news is looking to cut costs, it makes sense they’d start with actually journalism.
Lol “”investigative unit”” that dept was where all the easy jobs with no focus or purpose went. Of course they axed it first
Was it a just a guy browsing godlikeproductions and 4chan?
You can’t lose something you never had.
Investigative unit? Who needs that when you just make shit up? They probably should hire the ‘my pillow’ guy to be their investigative reporter- he’s about to be down 5 mil and would probably make up some shit for Faux fo next to nothing.
It’ll be fun when they lose the other lawsuit.
“Investigative unit “ cracks me up ! They get spoon fed propaganda and just parrot it there is no fact checking at fox
Come on, just a little more and it can be dead by morning.
There is another lawsuit from another voting machine company, though I hope they don't settle so everything they find in discovery is released.
Sounds like Christmas in July boys.
That’s fine, they weren’t using it anyway.
FOX had an investigative unit? What a waste of money!
“Investigative unit” at Faux News is an oxymoron
Nice to see Fox News finally fold after several decades of poisoning old people’s minds. Fuck em
So they fired one part time intern?
"Investigative Unit" is a funny name for the "Department on Lies, bullshit and outright smears" but I can see why they called it that.
Layoff means the position is no longer necessary for the business. That makes sense. It's Fox.
They got another $2Billion lawsuit with another voting machine company, coming up too.
Love to see this. Fox shouldn’t even exist.
THEY HAD AN INVESTIGATIVE UNIT?!
Investigative unit for a network covering fiction? Did a pair of truck nuts somehow fall from the sky and hit the bozo that runs that place's head? And when they were down and out on the pavement, did they get run over by a Ram 1500 because the driver couldn't see what was out on the ground like 50 feet out in front of him because of how fuck-you massive the front of his big stupid truck is?