As Fox News faces a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, I would like to put in a good word for Fox News.
I used to hate Fox News. When I was a kid, I was a devoted Democrat and thought that Fox was just a bunch of Republican propaganda, and that the U.S. government should force them to give equal weight to Democratic arguments.
I still believe that Fox should show more alternative points of view than it currently does and act less like the official Republican Party media organ, more like an independent news outlet like its sister organization The Wall Street Journal. It has been toxic for the Republican Party to depend so much on what the right-wing media thinks, where there is often herd behavior.
At the same time, Fox News does an excellent job on certain counts. Most importantly, it is an effective news outlet for the Resistance against the current establishment on the left and some of the establishment on the right. (If you can imagine TV in Star Wars. Have you ever noticed how Star Wars doesn't have any TVs? At least as far as I remember.)
Tucker Carlson had an excellent TV segment a month or two ago about how there has been consistent sabotage of trains and electricity and other infrastructure in the U.S. from abroad, and how this effectively amounts to a foreign invasion that no one is talking about. That is stuff you will not get almost ANYWHERE else because Tucker is uniquely insightful and honest, in spite of the slander that you often hear about him.
It's hard to find Fox ever criticize Donald Trump; they should be able to criticize him and any other reasonably important public figure. But overall, Fox is uniquely fair to Republicans and gives a megaphone to some of the best ones.
I recommend watching Fox News more, particularly their signature shows. You might be persuaded that it's better than you think.
[Caveat: I don't know the details of how Fox News is run or its secrets. So take this take with a grain of salt.]
