I missed this in January. Im so glad I found it. Thanks to the facts presented here, Im going to be making a concerted effort to do what everyone but the 68-and-over-all-white crowd is doing - ignore Fox. This is a must-read for everyone not fitting the aforementioned group. Everyone is, of course, welcome and encouraged to read i,t but as Frank Rich puts it so perfectly... The million or so viewers who remain fiercely loyal to the network are not, for the most part, and as some liberals still imagine, naïve swing voters who stumble onto Fox News under the delusion it’s a bona fide news channel and then are brainwashed by Ailes’s talking points into becoming climate-change deniers. They arrive at the channel as proud, self-selected citizens of Fox Nation and are unlikely to defect from the channel or its politics until death do them part. (As Sherman writes, “Ailes’s audience seldom watches anything” on television but Fox News.) The Fox News membership is more than happy to be cocooned in an echo chamber where its own hopes and fears will be reinforced by other old white “people like us.” Rather than waste time bemoaning Fox’s bogus journalism, liberals should encourage it. The more that Fox News viewers are duped into believing that the misinformation they are fed by Ailes is fair and balanced, the more easily they can be ambushed by reality as they were on Election Night 2012.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:21:51 +0000