'News' is more accurately described as a political advertisement. Take the latest impending government shutdown.
Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., discusses the looming government shutdown, threats to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the border crisis on ‘Fox News Live.’The nightly"news" cannot be expected to offer you an"explainer" on anything happening in Washington. Their ratings gurus would tell them that trying to educate the audience on how Congress works, for example, would result in eye rolls and channel flips to"Wheel of Fortune.
Minutes later, Holt warned,"With little progress to report, Garrett Haake looks at the tough consequences some Americans will face if a shutdown happens."It quickly turned a little preposterous, as Haake traveled straight to the Capital Area Food Bank, 5 miles north of Capitol Hill. Their CEO Radha Muthiah intoned,"We know that when budgets are stretched, food is the first thing to go.
Then Haake really laid it on thick:"The Capital Area Food Bank is now planning for a possible surge of 100,000 people in the D.C. region needing food assistance soon if the government shuts down this weekend." Within days, a massive"surge" of hungry federal employees?If that sounds overwrought, Muthiah helpfully underlined the cleaning and restaurant businesses:"Think about the cleaning crews, the food service.
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