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the news according to Fox
I have my phone set to read me the news headlines from several major news organizations as I do my morning ablutions, and one of them (by default) is Fox News. And it's always interesting to hear how Fox's take on the news differs from everybody else's: for example, last year when Fox News was hit with an $800 million lawsuit verdict for lying about Dominion voting machines being rigged to shift votes in the 2020 Presidential election from Trump to Biden, it was a headline on every news agency except Deutsche Welt and Fox, which didn't mention that there had been a verdict at all.
This morning there was an offhand mention that "Republicans in the US House rejected an aid bill to Ukraine and Israel because it didn't contain border security measures." That's not how it was described on any other mainstream news source (Reuters, NYT, WaPo, NPR, AP...): the usual story is that Republicans in the US House, after months of bipartisan negotiations, rejected an aid bill to Ukraine and Israel that contained almost every border security measure they had ever asked for, because Trump didn't want a border security bill to pass before the November election so he could run on Biden's inability to do border security. And then the US Senate, with almost all Democrats and about half of Republicans, passed the same bill without the border security stuff, but the Republican Speaker of the US House refused to even call a vote on it.
This morning there was an offhand mention that "Republicans in the US House rejected an aid bill to Ukraine and Israel because it didn't contain border security measures." That's not how it was described on any other mainstream news source (Reuters, NYT, WaPo, NPR, AP...): the usual story is that Republicans in the US House, after months of bipartisan negotiations, rejected an aid bill to Ukraine and Israel that contained almost every border security measure they had ever asked for, because Trump didn't want a border security bill to pass before the November election so he could run on Biden's inability to do border security. And then the US Senate, with almost all Democrats and about half of Republicans, passed the same bill without the border security stuff, but the Republican Speaker of the US House refused to even call a vote on it.