You're kidding, right? Fox 'News', is "entertainment", not news. Beyond their very obvious bias they don't air anything resembling a news story, only manufacturing outrage through having an opinion. They don't engage in any critical analysis what-so-ever. Their credibility is non existent and quite literally on pair with a tabloid magazine. Fox is officially, not 'News'. Having an opinion about something, is not news. Entitled to that opinion, sure. But passing it off as a claim of 'noteworthy recent events', is absolutely despicable.
Fox News is no more or less "entertainment" than CNN or MSNBC. The actual straight up news content is almost always factually accurate. It's the opinion and analysis shows that are highly biased on all US based channels. Just turn them all off, they're all trash.
Well, yes and no. Accuracy is a spectrum when there are many claims being made per day. Back in high school, for my government civics class, we had a final project where we were asked to watch news from like 5 to 10 different TV channels, describe what the news piece was about, then cross-reference every claim and fact check it, giving each station a grade. Most news pieces were something between 70% and 100% accurate; but when I got to Fox News, the assignment became nearly impossible to even complete. They would describe a thing that happened in about 10 seconds, and then spend the rest of the piece's time just spewing partisan rhetoric and opinions. There wasn't even anything that could be fact checked after the initial description! I ended up just writing that in my report ("could not fact check, it was all opinions").
So, you're right that all news stations have some element of inaccuracy for the sake of ratings, but you're wrong in thinking they're all equivalent in the amount of inaccuracy. Fox is the worst offender on that front.
I agree with everything you've said. The question wasn't "is Fox accurate or reliable news?", it was "what makes Fox less official?" Official doesn't mean accurate. Fox profits from people believing what they tell them, it's just as much an authority as any other organization who benefits from convincing its followers of particular ideas. That's all I was pointing out.
You're kidding, right? Fox 'News', is "entertainment", not news. Beyond their very obvious bias they don't air anything resembling a news story, only manufacturing outrage through having an opinion. They don't engage in any critical analysis what-so-ever. Their credibility is non existent and quite literally on pair with a tabloid magazine. Fox is officially, not 'News'. Having an opinion about something, is not news. Entitled to that opinion, sure. But passing it off as a claim of 'noteworthy recent events', is absolutely despicable.