I’ve noticed a lot of linking to articles from Fox News and the New York Post. I’m sure everyone already knows about Fox News but you may not know that the New York Post has essentially the same flaws as Fox News. I believe that these “news” sources should at minimum have restrictions or face an outright ban.

I’ve previously posted on this topic at length I just thought of trying to extend this to Reddit. Sadly I don’t have an usable account because for some weird reason got shadow banned when I tried to create an account so the best I can do is ask that people here with a Reddit account for help.

I’m urging everyone with a Reddit account to send a message to the moderators of r/news and r/politics urging for these two policies:

  1. Automoderator message warning that the website is known for low quality reporting and it’s owned by Murdoch and therefore may contain conflict of interests.

  2. Encourage users to link to reputable news sources and develop media literacy skills to. Posts to low quality news sources should be deleted when similar but higher quality content is available elsewhere. Often times the NY Post and Fox News just summarize from more reputable news sources and add their own bias and opinion to the story.

These policies should also be applied to similar websites that have the same flaws but are not owned by Murdoch. For example websites like The Daily Mail are similar because although they are not owned my Murdoch they have the same flaws in that they are not committed to telling the truth and instead profit by spreading hate, lies and propaganda.

In addition whenever you see someone share a link on a Murdoch rag or similar no matter what social media platform they are on please try to educate people on what website they are using and how it’s biased.

Here’s an example comment I posted when I saw someone linked to nypost.com on the Technology community.

Just so you all know the New York Post is a Rupert Murdoch (same person who owns Fox News) rag. According to Wikipedia it wasn’t profitable from 1976 to 2022 perhaps even loosing up to $70 million a year. The reason why he ran it at a loss for so long is for influence. Prior to Murdoch’s acquisition the “Post was seen to have liberal tilt, supporting trade unions and social welfare”. Now it’s a conservative trash rag.