Stephanie
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lol, BAM!!!!!! Man some people should feel real small and embarrassed.... they swallow that on FOX news hook, line and stinker...this article is from pollutico of all places. They come out the DNC foxhole occasionally.
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ByJACK SHAFER
May 24, 2015
And it came to pass that the earth turned and another campaign season spun into view and the liberal commentariat rose from its siesta to begin its usual moping about the perverse political powers wielded by the Fox News Channel.
This time, the sentinel waking the commentariat to the alleged Fox menace is not a liberal but a self-described conservative,Bruce Bartlett. Bartlett, aprolificwriter on politics and economics who has worked for congressional Republicans (Ron Paul and Jack Kemp), Republican presidents, (Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) and conservative and libertarian policy shops,brokewith his party a decade ago when he leveled President George W. Bush as an opportunistic pork-barreller in his bookImpostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. Bartlett recently added a media component to his critique in a paper titled:
“How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics,” which has heated the blood of liberals to the boiling point, including theAtlantic’sJames FallowsandJosh Marshall,Talking Points Memo, theHuffington Postand other outriders of liberalism.
Fox News isn’t just bad for America, which is the usual liberal complaint. It’s also bad for the Republican Party, the still-conservative Bartlett holds, because it has stunted the GOP’s growth with a news agenda that ships “misinformation” to the party’s far-right base.
This is the so-called Fox “echo chamber” effect you’ve read so much about inThinkProgress, theNew Republic,Slate,The Week, Nicholas Kristof’scolumnand theAtlantic (you want to see echo chambers. go to those ugly sites)
. According to chamber theorists, Fox “breeds extremism” within the Republican Party by (1) convincing viewers to reject other news feeds as biased and (2) to partake only of Fox content and like-minded conservative radio fodder. The echo chamber, so the theory goes, has deluded the party into thinking that support for its radical-right views is greater than it really is. This, in turn, has convinced the party to run radical candidates who aren’t aselectableas they seem to be. And all this extremism prevents the GOP’s presidential candidates from reaching centrist voters, who are essential for victory.
all of it here:
What Liberals Still Don t Understand About Fox News - Jack Shafer - POLITICO Magazine
Read more:What Liberals Still Don t Understand About Fox News - Jack Shafer - POLITICO Magazine
SNIP:
ByJACK SHAFER
May 24, 2015
And it came to pass that the earth turned and another campaign season spun into view and the liberal commentariat rose from its siesta to begin its usual moping about the perverse political powers wielded by the Fox News Channel.
This time, the sentinel waking the commentariat to the alleged Fox menace is not a liberal but a self-described conservative,Bruce Bartlett. Bartlett, aprolificwriter on politics and economics who has worked for congressional Republicans (Ron Paul and Jack Kemp), Republican presidents, (Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) and conservative and libertarian policy shops,brokewith his party a decade ago when he leveled President George W. Bush as an opportunistic pork-barreller in his bookImpostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. Bartlett recently added a media component to his critique in a paper titled:
“How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics,” which has heated the blood of liberals to the boiling point, including theAtlantic’sJames FallowsandJosh Marshall,Talking Points Memo, theHuffington Postand other outriders of liberalism.
Fox News isn’t just bad for America, which is the usual liberal complaint. It’s also bad for the Republican Party, the still-conservative Bartlett holds, because it has stunted the GOP’s growth with a news agenda that ships “misinformation” to the party’s far-right base.
This is the so-called Fox “echo chamber” effect you’ve read so much about inThinkProgress, theNew Republic,Slate,The Week, Nicholas Kristof’scolumnand theAtlantic (you want to see echo chambers. go to those ugly sites)
. According to chamber theorists, Fox “breeds extremism” within the Republican Party by (1) convincing viewers to reject other news feeds as biased and (2) to partake only of Fox content and like-minded conservative radio fodder. The echo chamber, so the theory goes, has deluded the party into thinking that support for its radical-right views is greater than it really is. This, in turn, has convinced the party to run radical candidates who aren’t aselectableas they seem to be. And all this extremism prevents the GOP’s presidential candidates from reaching centrist voters, who are essential for victory.
all of it here:
What Liberals Still Don t Understand About Fox News - Jack Shafer - POLITICO Magazine
Read more:What Liberals Still Don t Understand About Fox News - Jack Shafer - POLITICO Magazine