Fox News is owned and operated by a man who became very wealthy selling entertaining lies in grocery store tabloids. He created and sold a product that looked like a newspaper, with headlines and photos and stories, but that was 'made up' for the sake of "entertainment": stories about Elvis being abducted by space aliens - that sort of thing.
And the news media as a whole has since picked up on the fact that turning elections into kind of championship "cage match" between cartoon character politicians with absurdly simplistic 'back-stories' keeps a lot of stupid people tuning in for more. The same kind of stupid people that used to buy the grocery store tabloids, and watch championship wrestling, thinking these were "real".
I don't think it's particularly unChristian to participate in these sorts of phony news stories, I just think it's stupid. Especially if one is too weak-minded to recognize that its all made up just to sell the advertising. Because that's all these media outlets are really doing: they are selling advertising time/space for money. And they'll use whatever sensationalist lies and exaggerations that they think will keep the viewers watching, to do it.
Seriously, look at Donald Trump and tell me he is not the quintessential W.W.F. (World Wrestling Federation) version of a presidential candidate! What's really freaky is that this make-believe cartoon reality that Fox, and Rush Limbaugh, and the other tabloid "news media outlets" have been using to sell advertising has now become a part of the real world. Apparently, there are so many stupid people who believe in this nonsense that a cartoon character like Donald Trump can actually exist in the real world, now. And even run for president.
This is how absurdly stupid these people have become, and how sick we have now become as a nation - as we are no longer able to differentiate between reality and this make-believe tabloid reality created to sell advertising.
The problem (IMO) for Christians, in particular, is that they are already in the habit of accepting make-believe as reality, because religious Christianity has been selling make-believe as "faith" for 2,000 years. So Christians are especially vulnerable to believing whatever the tabloid news outlets tell them to believe, so long as it fits with their pre-conceived biases. They do so almost automatically as a part of their religion. And these media outlets know this, so they play to it.
And so does the republican party, by the way. It's not just Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, etc., generating and spreading all this make-believe nonsense, it's also Carl Rove and the Koch brothers. And they all have an agenda: to make money, yes, but also to create a kind of 'slave economy' in which they become the ruling elite.
