Jon Carroll asks in today’s Chronicle:
Could it be that the Fox model has played out? Could it be that the lack of civility and grace, the embrace of the most extreme candidates as long as they were Republicans, indeed, the whole idea behind Roger Ailes’ brainchild – a pimping station for the far right – may be politically bankrupt?
It was great fun to watch the paid liars of the right on Election Night as their carefully-constructed anti-reality crumbled in the face of the truth. But I think it’s time to stop rewarding the denizens of Bullshit Mountain with all this attention.
I enjoy seeing Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart take the lies apart day after day after day after day after day – but Fox News was designed and built to destroy the truth, and there is very little to be learned from analyzing the traffic on the channel. We know what their mission is, we know what their methods are, and we know what they’re going to say before they say it.
Why call any attention at all to a media outlet that is the moral equivalent of pumping raw sewage into the town square?