What timeline is this again? Psychics are on news channels now? Not mention one with an extremely large user base that would have this go against their theology? I can’t even.
As proven long ago, Fox News is not news, it’s all editorials. Every last person on the air is a pundit, there are no reporters. They don’t report the news, they report their opinions on the news. That’s why they have a “psychic” on one of their shows, to provide an opinion on what’s going to happen. It’s all just for show…
Those of us who remember Reaganomics also remember he used a psychic his entire EIGHT year presidency. SMH.
Are you thinking of his astrologer Joan Quigley? Not really any better, but not a psychic.
Mysticism such as using psychics is also something oddly embedded with Nazis. Like, even back during their rise they were oddly into mysticism
The Nazis had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler was a nut on the subject. He was crazy. He was obsessed with the occult.
I mean new age shit is just trendy, you don’t have to go to one side of the isle to find con artists.
Their reply completely ignores your point about psychics contradicting Christian beliefs, and it’s absolutely shocking that Faux News watchers even tolerate it, let alone enjoy it.
It shouldn’t be, but I do see it on TVs in public more often than any other news I think which is concerning
You should watch the movie “Network” from the 1970s sometime. It predicted the trash that is news programming these days.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_network
It wasn’t meant to be a prediction though. It was meant to be incredibly broad satire. I mean the last line of the movie is- “This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.”
And honestly, if Fox could have just taken Tucker out with a .22 to the back of the head, they would have totally done that.
We’re living in a comedy.
Yeah it’s the same as 1984 and so many others, it’s about the human condition and natural propensites.
The truth is things haven’t really got much worse, I happen to enjoy Victorian newspapers and it’s all the same nonsence and lies. People will always find a new way to lie and a new excuse to pretend to believe.
News used to be 60 minutes just after prime time. Now they have whole channels with news 24/7/365. Have to fill all that air time with something
24 hour news is a blight. TBH 24 hours everything except for emergencies and medical services is a blight.
There’s plenty of interesting stuff going on in the world. Reporting on it doesn’t maximize profit.
CNN used to have shows about fashion, sports, entertainment, the arts, world affairs. They figured out that just having talking heads blab and argue with each other was cheaper.
CNN headline news used to be just a 30 minute broadcast about the day’s major headlines repeated on a loop every half hour. They didn’t really fill the entire 24 hours with different stories all day long.
Similarly ESPN used to show sports of all kinds. Rugby, Soccer, bowling, snooker/billiards. Again, it’s just taking heads now.
My dad was not right-wing, but he went from us watching The McNeil-Lehrer Newshour once a day in the 80s to being glued to CNN and MSNBC all day. Almost literally all day once he retired. They found an American addiction and learned to feed it. For my dad, and I think a lot of people, it was a combination of the first Iraq war and the OJ live chase. Suddenly you could watch something really amazing that was news in real time whenever you turned on your TV.
Isn’t it technically ‘light entertainment’ or some shit so legally it’s not obliged to report any facts?
Colbert doesn’t just pull shit out of his ass though, AND he makes the news funny.
Fox just makes up whatever inflammatory bullshit will get their base riled up the most. They don’t want them laughing, they want them irate and terrified with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, glued to the TV until they tell them it’s time to act again.
The news here is that they are putting psychics on the fucking news, wtf
They were on Fox, they weren’t on the news.
Fox don’t report the news, they report things that they feel should have happened if the world was just according to their values. You’d get more accurate reporting out of a 6-year-old when they’re telling you who ate all the chocolate.
I read this headline yesterday and it made me think of a time when California Psychics had commercials all over the place. A few hours later, I saw a California Psychics commercial on prime time NBC. The world is getting dumberer by the minute.
This is on the Jesse Waters show which is on the channel called Fox News. It should be noted that a majority of Fox News shows are actually talk shows and opinion segments, not straight news.
Rupie has done an excellent job convincing people on both sides that the entirety of Fox News’ airtime is to be considered news because it’s the name of the channel and it has a news ticker on the bottom
"I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
I couldn’t find the original article in my history, but this segment had me infuriated… This chucklefuck looks to Fox news as a good model for them to replicate on CNN…
So much work. Just start a meme page and present “news” via memes. Bam, instant Facebook cancer. Shit like “it takes 21,000 gallons of diesel fuel to make and transport the lithium batteries in your testla charged by coal plants. My F350 commuter burns 3 gallons to get across town. Who is the pollute now?” [ignore the entire fuel refinery process and economy of scale] - follow Absolute Truefacts for more smoothbrain digestable content!
“But it’s very specific. Let me move on. It’s a sense of loss,” she added. “It’s as if he may be thinking more about what he’s lost and not still taking full advantage of what he still has.”
This is because Trump is A LOSER.
This is actually really smart on her part. She’s banking on the most gullible portion of society to believe everything she says, on Fox News, no less, so they think she’s automatically legit. And even if they boo or even hate her at this point, if things go south for Trump, you can bet they’ll be looking her up to see what else she has to say because she “simply said what she saw”. And thats when she’ll start raking in the big bucks with personal consultations.
It’s weird to me that they wouldn’t just arrange the cards to create the narrative they want to sell. Psychics know it’s a con, otherwise they wouldn’t try so hard to spin the results.
I don’t know. Some believe the con so much that they end believing it more than their customers (source: my mother who does it for free for her friends)
Same, my mother absolutely believes it, so much so that she refuses to do it for family and friends because she doesn’t want to see anything bad with anyone she knows.
Same with reiki, she tried it on me once and asked if I felt anything, which I obviously didn’t so I said as much and her reply was “oh, well that’s probably because you don’t believe in it.”
I love you mom, but that’s called a placebo.
It’s weird how tarot cards can never actually predict anything useful isn’t it? You know like it would be really convincing if they could tell me what next week’s lottery numbers are.
One of my sister’s friends is into this stuff and yet she still managed to get a speeding ticket, you’d have thought she’d seen that one coming.
I mean, sure some people believe it, but to be successful at it, you have to engage in the grift. Because it doesn’t actually work. You have to massage the story to get people hooked and make them think you’re telling them something valuable. Reading tarot cards for fun isn’t the same as building a business around your psychic abilities.
It’s the difference between playing with a Ouija board and telling the police that a victim has contacted you from beyond the grave for the reward money. Belief in the former can be sincere, but you don’t do the second part unless you know it’s a con.
Iirc on fox news they control the narrative and the presentation, but they never control the guests. Usually the guests just go along with it (because why else would you go on fox news). But they already had some earlier instances where they tried to cut off interviewees because they had polar opposite opinions.
