Fear Factor
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Bfgrn
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How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network
“It’s like the Soviet Union or China: People are always looking over their shoulders,” says a former executive with the network’s parent, News Corp. “There are people who turn people in.”
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To watch even a day of Fox News – the anger, the bombast, the virulent paranoid streak, the unending appeals to white resentment, the reporting that’s held to the same standard of evidence as a late-*October attack ad – is to see a refraction of its founder, one of the most skilled and fearsome operatives in the history of the Republican Party. As a political consultant, Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993.
The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network
“It’s like the Soviet Union or China: People are always looking over their shoulders,” says a former executive with the network’s parent, News Corp. “There are people who turn people in.”
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To watch even a day of Fox News – the anger, the bombast, the virulent paranoid streak, the unending appeals to white resentment, the reporting that’s held to the same standard of evidence as a late-*October attack ad – is to see a refraction of its founder, one of the most skilled and fearsome operatives in the history of the Republican Party. As a political consultant, Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993.
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fear sells....thus all media sells fear
to act as if it is just fox is head up ass syndrome
to act as if it is just fox is head up ass syndrome
So you didn't read the link but you comment anyway?
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It's not just about the fear asshole. It is about the fact that even the owner of Fox doesn't beleive the shit they are selling, and that the average veiwer is funtionaly illiterate. 'course you wouldn't know that since you didn't read it.
SmarterthanYou
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yeah, we heard NO fear mongering, finger twisting, emotionally fear based appeals during the TEA party gatherings where PEACEFUL americans carried guns and NO incident ever occurred. Nothing from MSNBC or CNN at all, uh huh.
zappasguitar
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Gee whiz...what happened to the standard Yurt response of "well 'they do it to' is NO EXCUSE"?
Oh I get it..."they do it too" works as an excuse when it's Yurt using that line.
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is it your claim that only fox news sells fear?
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who is "they"....pointing out a fact that ALL media sells fear is not a they did it too....
another zappa fail
Sure; that's exactly what I'm saying. You read really well.
It's my claim that this thread is about Fox news.
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actually, you read extremely poorly. i never said that is exactly what you're saying. google 'question'....i'll post the question again, and maybe this time you will have the fortitude to answer it instead of engaging in logical fallacies.
a simple -- yes or no
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apparently onceler is incapable of answering simple questions...probably desperately trying to figure out how to answer my question without making himself look like a fool
apple0154
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That was an enlightening article.
Quiz: On which page does the following appear:
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Whenever anyone starts a thread on Fox, you can practically do a countdown for Yurt rushing in frantically to defend them...
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1. is it your claim that only fox news sells fear?
2. did i defend fox in this thread?