June 19, 2023

In Memoriam: Fox News

The onetime answer to the Left’s corporate media monopoly has gone all in for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Here’s a story you won’t find on Fox News: Fox News sucks.

Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh — he of the fiendishly funny “What Is a Woman?” mockumentary — recently obtained internal communications from Fox News employees revealing that the onetime fly in the Left’s mainstream media ointment now encourages its employees to support all manner of LGBTQ organizations, including the employment of an artificial intelligence monitoring system to track its employees’ commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In a withering and at times grotesque 25-part Twitter broadside, Walsh takes the network to task.

“A screenshot of a Fox employee portal shared by Walsh showed that the company encourages employees to donate to the Trevor Project, the Ali Forney Center, and the L.A. LGBT Center,” Walsh writes, referring to three particularly radical organizations that the company supports. “Fox also encourages employees to read explicit LGBTQ books like one that gives a sexually explicit description of a ‘glory hole’ and another that describes pornographic scenes between two gay characters.”

Some of the material in Walsh’s thread is utterly obscene, beyond indecent. But if you’re curious, well, knock yourself out.

We wonder: What would Roger Ailes think about this transformation? What would he think about the network he created to break up the Left’s monopoly on the news?

More important: What must Fox News employees think? Walsh notes that Fox’s woke leadership — the same leadership that sent the wildly popular Tucker Carlson packing — has introduced an AI program that monitors its staff via a social credit scoring system that would make the communist Chinese blush. As The Daily Wire reports: “Fox executives told employees to sign up for Eskalera, an AI program that helps people ‘engage in activities that will deepen’ their ‘understanding of identity’ and ‘explore more nuanced D&I concepts.’”

And get this: “Eskalera says it pulls in data from various sources, including the email and payroll systems. It generates a ‘peer comfort index’ and a ‘diversity index,’ based in part on how often employees ‘practice micro-affirmations.’”

It’s downright creepy, no?

As Walsh notes in the 13th installment of his Twitter-based broadside: “Fox further recommends that employees listen to podcasts like ‘Queery’ and watch various TED Talks about ‘LGBT life.’ In one of those talks, a woman explains that undergoing a medically unnecessary double mastectomy is a sign of strength.” See for yourself:

In the final three installments of Walsh’s exposé, he points to the real powerbrokers at the network — its ESG-driven institutional investors:

Do the executives and owners just not know what’s happening in their company? Are they trying to comply with some onerous New York State Law? Do they not care? Do they actually support this nonsense? Fox News’ audience deserves to know.

Or maybe Fox leadership isn’t concerned with how the audience feels because they’re not really beholden to those viewers at all. Like YouTube, some of Fox’s largest shareholders are enormous institutional investors, particularly BlackRock and Vanguard Group.

These massive funds consolidate the wealth of millions of Americans, and then use their combined voting power to pursue a radical agenda most of those Americans oppose. They are Fox’s real customers. And they’re getting exactly what they want.

Many years ago, having observed the success of Fox News amid the struggles of all the other broadcast news outlets, we figured one of those networks — ABC, NBC, or CBS — would break ranks with its liberal brethren and join Fox News on the center-right. Our thinking was that rather than continuing to do battle for viewership and advertising dollars in a bloody red ocean, one of them would venture off into the clear blue waters where Fox News had virtually no competition for half the country’s viewers and the advertising revenue it thereby commanded.

Needless to say, we were wrong.

As one Twitter commenter put it, “Time to budlight Fox News.”

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