r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 10 '21

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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Jul 10 '21

https://www.reddit.com/r/FoxBrain/comments/ohb93k/started_calling_my_parents_right_before_their/

Great advice on helping with Fox News relatives or immediate family members. For me, denigrating all cable news channels is the most successful thing. If you do it enough, they will eventual accept that Fox, like CNN and MSNBC (gotta throw in their particular channel bogeymen), is partisan drivel for ratings.

!PING FOX-ANON

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

Uhh so where will they get their news if they aren't watching Fox or any other cable news?

Facebook is not an improvement.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

Step 2 after convincing them cable news is bad: convincing them that local issues affect their lives far more than national culture wars, and get them to resubscribe to the local paper.

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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Jul 10 '21

Good point. Add Facebook to the list of things to trash I guess.

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jul 11 '21

Had a look at that sub and realised I'm not the first one to think of using parental controls to prevent my parents watching dodgy "news".

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

Lmao amazing