What media Americans trust

**Montmorency** · 04-23-2018, 14:27

Originally Posted by Husar

Isn't Fox News the news channel of the Fox Broadcasting Company or are Americans just really into furry animals?

What? Yes? Sort of?

Unlike ABC, CBS and NBC, Fox does not currently air national news programs (morning, evening or overnight) or newsmagazines – choosing to focus solely on its prime time schedule, sports and other ancillary network programming. The absence of a national news program on the Fox network is despite the fact that its parent company, 21st Century Fox, owns Fox News Channel, which launched in August 1996 and currently maintains near-universal distribution within the United States via pay television providers. Fox News is not structured as a news division of the Fox network, and operates as a technically separate entity within 21st Century Fox through the company's Fox News Group subsidiary. However, it does produce some content that is carried by the broadcast network, which is usually separate from the news coverage aired by the cable channel; in particular, FNC anchor Shepard Smith anchors most prime time news presentations on the Fox network, especially during political news events (which are anchored by Bret Baier on Fox News Channel).

Why?

Just so people apprehend what I did wrong with the post above, let me be clear that when I first posted I knew that the report concerned Fox TV and not Fox News Channel (FNC) programming, but I chose to frame it as FNC because I liked how it set up for my Russian Reversal joke, which was (along with the influence of FNC on Trump's thinking/policy) the main point of the post.

That's, you know, a lie. Bad form and neither necessary to nor excused by being secondary to something else.

I didn't edit out or reword the first line for the sake of transparency. It's wrong to be deliberately or even carelessly misleading.

I still like my apt joke though. It's not a great joke, but it's pretty good.

**Husar** · 04-23-2018, 14:35

Originally Posted by Montmorency

Why?

I probably looked that connection up before, but I was really just curious whether they were all related or whether two seperate corporations would name their channels fox. It's nothing important, you may continue.