Heh, I wonder what the correction force is here? So Fox news says something that is false based on bogus tweets, but gets more viewer engagement. At what point does the FCC require they run a crawl that says "This show provides for entertainment purposes only." ? I kind of get it when my Dad's octogenarian buddies forward me some email thread claiming that half of California's population consists of undocumented workers. based on random hate blogs, but nominal 'news' sources like Fox should have at least some accountability to the licensing authorities right?
U.S. cable/satellite-only channels like Fox News do not have FCC licenses. There may be a few general regulations they have to abide by – things like closed captioning – but they do not have to answer directly to the FCC (unlike local broadcast stations).
Theoretically the Federal _Trade_ Commission could go after them if they had proof they were advertising falsely, though I think people have tried to bring complaints in the past along those lines and failed.
As the post points out, the fake DPRK account has fooled other news sources including the Washington Post, Slate, Newsweek, and so on. Gotta get that Fox News bashing in though, eh?
Fox is just the poster child for the decline of western journalism, and I call them out only because their early narrative 'we report you decide / fair and balanced' so clearly failed in the modern equivalent of cultured audiences that they abandoned it while using its still warm corpse as the entry point into establishing their brand.
That said, when you read about the Fox response to the hoax being exposed to them, and the responses of the others mentioned, does that inform your opinion of their relative ranking? Getting out in front a hoax is pretty doable, but it does start with admitting you were fooled.
It is one of the inherent ambiguities of English idiom that people will say 'like X' or 'such as X' when they have only X in mind. It is sometimes a source of humor as when an exclamation like "what would a man like Napoleon say?" is met by the rejoinder "Probably the same as what Napoleon himself would say".
Furthermore, such rants are a typical response to any mention of Fox News, even though it does not appear to be worse than other mainstream media outlets, differing only in its political slant.
