One recent topic in the news has mentioned that private emails sent back and forth by Fox News analysts discussed the fact that ex-President Trump’s claims of a stolen election were false. These emails were written at the same time that Fox News content on-air presented the stolen election rants as plausible and of legitimate concern. In other words, their personal beliefs had zero effect on their coverage which was designed to aggravate, agitate, and incense Republican voters. Why? Because angry content boosts ratings.
Don’t get me wrong! It is not my contention that Fox News is the only guilty party. The same kind of anger orientated content is being deployed throughout the media, because slanting a story towards anger and disgust, and disdain draws eyeballs; and attracting your attention is all the media cares about. So there, Mr. and Mrs. Clickbait!
When are we going to stop letting ourselves be pawns in the Culture Wars? How much longer will we allow ourselves to be pushed into one or the other of two warring camps?
In 2019 Facebook conducted an experiment by creating an imaginary facebooker they named Carol Smith. They had “Carol Smith” like Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Fox News. In just two days “she” found recommendations and links for “her” to visit a Qanon site.
Proposed: Let’s all go on holiday from Social Media and rabble rousing political campaigns and learn to have a civil discussion with our neighbors.
Expel capitalism from the media. Exert political control of AI.
Slow down Leon! This is a Capitalist society!
Yes, there really are legitimate suspicions about the party that opposes photo IDs at polling places, and the rush to override state legislation to provide massive mail-in ballots in several states in 2020. Skeptics are slandered as deniers, as in holocaust deniers.
Right, Fox is not the only guilty party. In 2016 Hillary Clinton repeatedly said that Republicans are doing all they can to deny the vote to people of color. NPR-CNN-ABC-CBS-NBC did not challenge that dangerous big lie.
Joseph Biden slandered Georgia’s new election security laws as “Jim Crow 2.0.” A University of Georgia survey of African American voters in the 2021 Georgia elections showed, “72.6% of the surveyed black voters said their experience was ‘excellent,’ while 23.6% said it was ‘good’ and 3.3% said it was ‘fair.’ The remaining 0.5% said they didn’t know how to characterize their voting experience.” Did you hear this in the Democrat-Media Axis?
Remember the Russian “hacking” of the 2016 election? The DMA repeated that language but later changed it to nonsensical “collusion.” Yes, let’s leave the socialist media.
You made some good points, Richard right up to the last sentence when you characterized the media as “socialist”. The media is all over the map, and it is as partisan and agenda mongering as the government is.