This is why I strongly urge people to avoid Fox "news" wherever and whenever possible, and to certainly not trust anything that execrable network airs as being the gospel truth:
Link: Fox News and the Misleading Story of Portland’s ICE Protests — ProPublica
"When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television.
He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said, a comment that became an internet meme as some Portland residents juxtaposed it with tranquil images of the city.
Trump didn’t say which channel he watched; he said at one point he saw something “today” and at another “last night.”
The evening before, on Sept. 4, Fox News aired a two-and-a-half-minute segment spotlighting protests outside a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland. Similar footage aired the morning of Trump’s remarks. The president went on to announce Sept. 27 on Truth Social that he would send troops, saying that he was “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
He later said he’d told Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, that “unless they’re playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down.”
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed more than 700 video clips posted to social media by protesters, counterprotesters and others in the three months preceding the Sept. 4 broadcast.
The review found that the news network repeatedly provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland."
Fox "news" does not deliver "news." That is the principal point to be made. They manufacture news more often than they report it, and when they do actual news reporting, it is almost always delivered with a biased dose of right-wing propaganda mixed with lies in order to mislead the American public.
Why do you think Rupert Murdoch's flagship network was sued and lost a nearly $1 billion dollar judgment for lying to their viewers about the outcome of the 2020 election? No other major news organizations were sued for doing that.
Turn off Fox "news" folks. They are not a legitimate news organization and never were and their owners are openly hostile to the truth, and to American democracy.
---TFG
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