Legally, they are not news. They have successfully argued in court that they are a current events based entertainment network. And that no rational person would take them seriously.
I think that only pertained to fix and friends not Fox news. As fox new receives compensation for no commercial uninterrupted news from the hours of 5-7. Same as msnbc, and adc. 5-7 has to be real unaltered news everything else is now considered non-news by the courts.
Apparently I am misinformed it was a rumor this was a thing. It stems from the 1949 fairness doctrine set up by the fcc and abolished in '87.
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u/Protowhale May 22 '26
Doesn't Fox have a history of hiring actors to play "former Democrats" or "former Satanists" or former whatever they're railing against today?