C_Clayton_Jones
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- Apr 28, 2011
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In the aftermath of The Great GOP Meltdown of 2012, I've now seen a couple of articles asking this question as the party begins a little self-inspection. Wow, never would I have expected this.
(Well, at least SOME of the party is doing some self-inspection. The rest of it is doubling down, proudly remaining in abject denial. But that's for a different thread)
Fox played a big part in the party somehow convincing itself that Romney was going to win in a landslide. It essentially created an information cocoon for conservatives, where no light was getting in, where the bad information inside the cocoon was allowed to fester and grow. The result? Conservatives were shocked at the outcome; no one else was.
So would the GOP be better off if Fox never existed? Or if it changed its approach and stopped being such a weird cartoon act? Is Fox hurting the GOP?
(And by the way, don't divert to MSNBC. I agree it's gone completely over the cliff for the Left. This is about Fox, how it created its own little world, and why the Right was so stunned by the election results)
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We have witnessed a remarkable and unique period of American political history, where an entire broadcasting entity (cant really call it news) dedicated itself for the last four years solely to the removal of a sitting American president.
That it failed to do so is compelling evidence Fox preaches only to the converted, and failed to convince the required number of voters to not vote for Obama the networks clear raison d'etre.
Its reasonable to infer, therefore, that Fox serves a predisposed clientele, where they came that way to the network, blind adherents to conservative political dogma.
If Fox didnt exist, and conservatives exposed to actual fair and balanced news sources, theyd still reject the facts presented to them, as these facts would conflict with that conservative dogma.