Taylor Swift to Fox News: “Don’t call yourself a news outlet!”
Taylor Swift is grabbing conservatives by their collective pussies and they don’t like it.
In fact, we should just get rid of news outlets (Fox, NBC) entirely and only allow news agencies (AP News, Reuters) to report on news and politics.
in some places fox news isnt allowed to use the word “news” in the name, because they are, by their own definition “mostly editorial/entertainment”
they avoid the markets where they dont get to pretend to be news
They’re all entertainers. I don’t see the difference except Taylor Swift has a day job.
What’s funny is that she hasn’t endorsed anyone. But they keep raising such a stink on the mere thought that she might endorse Biden and have demanded that she doesn’t voice her Biden endorsement far and wide to the point, now, it has become assumed by most that she does endorse him. If anyone does, in fact, give a damn about her endorsement, the wackos yelling on the right have made her de facto position a pro-Biden position. Exactly what they’re complaining about. Now she doesn’t even need to endorse him in order to basically endorse him. Dolts.
she hasn’t endorsed anyone.
Well, she did endorse Biden in 2020. Don’t see why she would have changed her mind one bit in 2024.>
She might like having less righta, ya never know
She’s been speaking out against the Supreme Court killing Roe, and she’s shown that she can drive registration with young woman. And young women are swing left of center.
She doesn’t have to endorse anyone to terrify the right.
Your ideology is total shit when the mere suggestion that citizens should vote as they please is a threat to your existence. The GOP’s days are numbered.
Unless they get away with suppressing the vote. Which they’ve been very successful at.
It’s more than that if you watch her documentary. She is begging her handlers to speak out while they are explaining they are afraid for her safety.
We have a situation where even wealthy people are afraid to speak their mind for fear of death. This is beyond unacceptable.
That’s rich coming from the network that’s been fellating a reality tv star 24/7 for 8 years.
I don’t know which is worse - Fox telling an artist to not be political or the NYT reporting that Fox is telling an artist not to be political.
I’m very, very tired of the news being the news. It’s no longer about reporting events and ideas but generating content and ad revenue. We’ve been the frog in the pot for a while now. How much worse is it going to get?
Taylor Swift will be 35 years old before the inauguration. There is still time to sub her in as vice president.
Is there a requirement to be 35 years old for VP?
A key duty of the VP is to become President if something happens to the President. It may not be a requirement, but it would cause the Speaker of the House, who might be from another party, to be the one who steps in.
You don’t want that.
Yes, according to the 12th Amendment:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
It’s the same reason why Obama couldn’t be VP. He’s ineligible because he’s served two terms already. If you can’t be President, you can’t be Vice-President. And that makes sense, since the VP could become President at any time if something goes sideways.
Could a 30 year old be speaker of the house? Or anywhere in the chain of succession?
Ya cuz she’s going to abandon her music career to be VP. Totally makes sense /s
Er, why settle for veep? Biden should endorse HER.
Nah, Biden is too old to be VP.
I’m fine with Kamala continuing as VP
I don’t know man. I really don’t want president Harris. Can we have Katie Porter as vice president instead?
Sounds like a decent idea, since she’s losing her Senate race.
Says the channel that is the de facto D-List celebrity to deranged right wing pundit pipeline
I want to hear the arguments between swifty kids, and their shitty fox news parents.
Fox News to paste jar: “I’m gonna eat’cha!”
How about fox gets out of politics!?
jesus fucking cheetodicks
“Singers aren’t qualified to comment on politics” --the politics network that has Ted Nugent on like every week
Can we say that to them as well?
Fox news has literally won lawsuits on the pretense that their content isn’t news and is entertainment and no reasonable person would take it seriously.
Didn’t know that. Had to look it up.
Carlson claimed that McDougal attempted to extort money from Trump—though she never asked Trump for money or even approached him. McDougal sued, and in response Fox’s legal team argued that his comments “cannot reasonably be interpreted as facts.”
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil—district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York—heard the case and agreed, finding that “given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statements he makes” and that “this overheated rhetoric is precisely the kind of pitched commentary that one expects when tuning in to talk shows like Tucker Carlson Tonight, with pundits debating the latest political controversies.”
“The Court concludes that the statements are rhetorical hyperbole and opinion commentary intended to frame a political debate, and, as such, are not actionable as defamation,” wrote Vyskocil in her ruling.
Carlson isn’t the only opinion show host to win a lawsuit with such a defense: David Folkenflik of NPR noted that Rachel Maddow’s lawyers used a similar argument to convince a judge to dismiss a libel lawsuit brought by One America News Network. The judge ruled that Maddow’s comments about an OANN reporter being “on the payroll for the Kremlin” could reasonably be understood to be opinion.
But while Fox’s lawyers argued Carlson’s opinion show should not be taken for news, Fox hasn’t argued that all of its content is “entertainment” as Occupy Democrats claims. Fox News is currently facing a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, which alleges that Fox’s coverage of the 2020 election promoted baseless conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines. While the argument that some of the coverage was opinion was part of the Fox legal defense, the network’s attorneys put forth the argument that sharing Dominion conspiracy theories was part of “neutral reportage” of allegations made by public figures and a “fair report” of legal proceedings.
