March 14, 2020

Fox News hosts and others scoffed at COVID-19 warnings, putting their own audience in danger

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/12/1926909/-Fox-News-hosts-and-others-scoffed-at-COVID-19-warnings-putting-their-own-audience-in-danger
"It will unfortunately not be up to us to enforce consequences for the widespread disinformation campaign that has been peddled to the American public by Fox News, richly-paid and now wealthy Fox News hosts, and the wide, greasy underbelly of the conservative conspiracy movement. That is on their own conservative audiences. They will have to realize who has lied to them and who has not, and assign blame, and get angry, and seek punishments. In the meantime, social distancing may mean avoiding not just crowds, but Fox News viewers. If that identifiable segment of the population is not taking the threat of the virus seriously even now, due to the blustering of wealthy, pompous hosts who don't give a particular damn which of their own audience members are put at risk by their false information, "conservative" becomes a disease vector. That is not an exaggeration. You know it, and I know it."