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so long as cash rules everything around me, faux news will continue.
if you want it to go away, start putting pressure on advertisers who buy time on that network at all.
an organized advertiser boycott could bring it to its knees.
publicizing the boycott would be tricky, in that the defense would play straight into the dividedness that has long been the faux news mainspring. us/them, our reality/their reality. but it could be done, and if it were done, it would go a long way toward redefining the space of political discourse in the united states.
faux news does not report on reality as conventionally understood. faux news is part of a system that edits reality along certain assumptions. "fair and balanced" are relational terms. "fair & balanced" operate with respect to a set of structuring assumptions. so an entirely reactionary media outlet can call itself "fair & balanced" without exactly lying because they never say with respect to what. they just leave that part out.
personally, i'd love to see faux news go down.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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