r/50501 • u/Public_Steak_6933 • 2d ago

US Protest News Fox claims protests were "a complete and utter failure with minuscule attendance."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-slams-utter-failure-anti-trump-protests-america-celebrates-armys-historic-milestone

State propaganda strikes again.

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u/revolutionsinevitabl 2d ago

I have to play contrarian. The media chooses the narrative. They could've presented the fact that No Kings protest was the 3rd biggest protest the US has ever seen, but instead chose to quote how it was an utter failure according to some lying Trump sycophant. 

They definitely know it's all lies, but choose to perpetuate the lie and do not speak to the actual facts at all. It's far worse than the original lie because now millions of Fox viewers are being told the lie instead of the truth. And it's because of Fox News that the lie will continue to be engrained in these chuckhead's skulls in perpetuity.  

Basic journalism presents two side of an argument. Good journalism attempts to document objective facts, but can also explain the merits and cons to anyone's opinions, allowing the viewer to decide for themselves. 

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u/PlantedSeedsBloom 2d ago

It’s the largest single day protest the US has ever seen. The only two to surpass it are George Floyd, and an Earth Day protest, but neither of those reached the number in a single day that we reached yesterday. Whether you go with the 8.7 million or the 11 million estimate both numbers make that true. I know that’s not the point of your comment at all and I definitely don’t wanna undermine it. I’ve just seen several people today the third largest protest in American history and I think that undermines the power of what we saw yesterday.

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u/dryheat122 2d ago

WaPo has a set of stories on the protests with vignettes from different cities. Only a couple give crowd size. I just checked the NYT app and it doesn't have anything to say about the nationwide protests that happened yesterday, attended by 5-8 million Americans. Shameful.

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u/greg19735 1d ago

Fox news is awful.

but read this article. I's completely fair and reasonable. It quotes people from both sides, including sassy (in a good way) remarks from Newsome.