Fox News apologized Saturday to a Gold Star family for publishing a false story last month claiming that the family had to pay $60,000 to ship the remains of their fallen relative back from Afghanistan because the Pentagon refused to pay.

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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t matter. They got their expected political result out of their false narrative at the time. Anything afterwards is a half-measure. Don’t let the people in your lives watch Fox News, people! It’s literal propaganda…

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      Me: “Hey, family, please stop watching Fox News, it’s literal propaganda”

      and a finger curled on the monkey’s hand

      Them: “oh, that’s why it’s woke now. I’ll watch Newsmax, then”

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      This is exactly how it works. Put your lies on the front page, then apologize in a tiny sentence buried somewhere no one sees. They know their audience has already heard what it wanted to hear, the apology won’t change a thing.

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        Yep, 5x as many people hear the lies as the refutation or correction. What they changed it to was basically the same, anyway - instead of saying “something happened” it became “congress member says something happened”.