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I was looking through news coverage of the crowd crush in Itaewon, that killed 153 people. There were a few videos from CNN and other US News outlets, none from FOX news. I went to the fox youtube channel and it seemed to be mostly US political news. Is the FOX news a "general" news channel or purely a political news channel? Or is it uniquely insular and focused on US politics.

It's on their website https://www.foxnews.com/world/dozens-south-korea-cardiac-arrest-seoul-crowd-surge-halloween-festivities-officials-say

Fox News just has a weird relationship with youtube in terms of their clips being uploaded by random people more often than others. Their actual youtube channel isn't meant to convey news, but is more spicy 2-5 minute clips that are uploaded every few hours for virality potential.

They also try a bit harder to promote their app to audience, and it doesn't seem to have failed like CNN's did 6 month ago.

They have news shows which are more general, but with unsubtle conservative slant (and most conservative Americans would say the other cable news channels are unsubtle about liberal/progressive slant), but there are also opinion shows which get the most ratings and are more focused on US politics.

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