To the editor: Gustavo Arellano wrote an incisive essay in regards to the toxic nature of the Fox News broadcast on the New Orleans terrorist attack.
However, after criticizing the demagogic “rants and slants” of the Fox Information’ hosts, he spoiled his essay by saying, “That’s why I hardly ever watch MSNBC, both.” This can be a drained previous false equivalency, implying that MSNBC is a leftist model of Fox Information.
MSNBC doesn’t visitors in poisonous misinformation and racist rants about immigrants. Sure, it has liberal leanings, however it helps democracy, not revolt. It helps compassionate immigration coverage, not merciless insurance policies in opposition to migrants.
By equating MSNBC with Fox Information, Arellano not solely reiterates a false equivalency, he additionally traffics within the form of misinformation his essay decries.
Invoice Carey, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: Arellano’s description of Fox Information because the “fetid data ecosystem that put Trump within the White Home” is a basic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Is Arellano unaware he works for a newspaper whose proprietor described it as an “echo chamber” of the political left and even instructed {that a} bias meter may be to ensure that some articles? I’m shaking my head.
Sam Chaidez, Mission Hills
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To the editor: Due to Arellano for crystallizing what I’ve felt for years about Fox Information.
I used to marvel how so many good folks in Germany went together with the Nazis’ evil plans. I don’t marvel anymore. It’s propaganda repeated advert nauseam till it turns into “clearly true” to those that hearken to it continuously.
Fox Information stirs up folks’s feelings. Pondering with one’s feelings short-circuits logical reasoning. It additionally sells and retains folks watching, as their sense of shock grows over distorted information.
Diane Sipes-Cwik, La Cañada Flintridge
