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Originally Posted by Guest
Conservatives are overwhelmingly inclined to choose to watch Fox. At the same time, they’re also disinclined to watch anything else. Fox churns out falsehoods that conservatives readily accept because conservatives maintain their beliefs against challenges by limiting their experiences and surrounding themselves with sources of information that will tell them they are right. Fox takes advantage of this mindset to program stories that feed into it.
Fox keeps constantly in their minds the idea that the rest of the media are “biased” against them, and conservatives duly respond by saying other media aren’t worth watching—it’s just a pack of lies.
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Let's make sure we are speaking of conservatives.
Donald Trump is not a conservative, but an alt right extremist.
Fox News is not even close to conservative. They used to be, but Trump now "owns" them philosophically and they are the master at conspiracy theories.
Earlier today, a Trump supporter kept pushing (in a nice way) and ias researching and reading up. Found this quote from a fellow who used to work at Breitbart, Ben Shapiro.
He made a great case about conservatives...the real and the extreme alt right.
"Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity.
Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism."
Fox did at one time represent the conservative movement, but,....well evidenced the last few days has been Wall to wall coverage of the Weinstein story, which has NO significance to anyone but extreme alt right bloggers.
Fox now stands with the Trump/extremist group. Fact is, the conspiracy theories that are now aired on there are embarrassing.
This used to be my go to network, but it is pretty much controlled by the ?..well, the Hannity/Trump crew.