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    Michael Hiltzik: Hate Fox News? Too bad — you still have to pay for it

    Let's say you hate Fox News. Maybe you believe that the cable channel's retailing of baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden has damaged democracy. Maybe you're repulsed by the open racism voiced by Fox star anchor Tucker Carlson, not to mention his noxious spouting of antimasking and antivaccination claptrap that undermines public health. Or maybe you ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2023 6 minutes
    Don't like Tucker Carlson's racist spiel? If you're a cable subscriber, you're paying for it anyway. Carlson speaks at the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on March 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C..

    Let's say you hate Fox News.

    Maybe you believe that the cable channel's retailing of baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden has damaged democracy.

    Maybe you're repulsed by the open racism voiced by Fox star anchor Tucker Carlson, not to mention his noxious spouting of antimasking and antivaccination claptrap that undermines public health.

    Or maybe you believe that Fox's willingness to feed its audience lies that its executives knew were lies — as suggested by the emails unearthed by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit against Fox — makes it not a "news" channel at all but a funnel for right-wing ideological mythmaking.

    You wouldn't be caught dead patronizing any of Carlson's advertisers, such as the MyPillow crackpot or the nutritional supplement mountebanks that fill the ad space between Fox News house ads.

    That's your way of boycotting Fox News, perhaps in the hope that the decline of advertising will prompt the channel to change its ways.

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