Reddit reviews The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine

> I listen to a lot of AM talk radio (to study how they mange their base), and the rhetoric is just astounding.

And consider, so called "conservative talk radio" has been doing that since the 80's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_talk_radio#Deregulation_of_talk_radio

Combine that with Fox News, Drudge Report, Breitbart, Twitter, Facebook, etc

Then add in the right wing politicians who have parroted the rhetoric and spin and lies

A large % of the country is brainwashed and needs actual deprogramming.. they are in a cult

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/movies/the-brainwashing-of-my-dad-review.html

https://www.amazon.com/Fox-Effect-Network-Propaganda-Machine/dp/0307279588/

https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Noise-Machine-Right-Wing-Democracy/dp/B000FVQV16

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5tkxq4/trumps_supporters_believe_a_false_narrative_of/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/republicans-hold-on-to-a-myth-to-hold-on-to-power.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-paints-a-picture-of-a-dystopian-america-that-doesnt-exist/2017/02/11/a1f3daaa-efc6-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-supporters-see-a-successful-president--and-are-frustrated-with-critics-who-dont/2017/02/19/496cb4b4-f6ca-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html

Kisses. 😘

Also, sorry you suck so very badly at Googling shit. While I erroneously added the word "News" to the book title (mea culpa), the Google search of the book with "news" in the title yielded this as like the third result.

https://www.amazon.com/Fox-Effect-Network-Propaganda-Machine/dp/0307279588

>A lot of Trump supporters unfortunately do not get correct information and are deliberately misled by the news sources they do follow

The Fox Effect

Yeah, it's strictly a biography, but it's still very worth checking out just because the guy was such an evil and relentless slimeball. If you wanted something more about the phenomenon/psychology itself you could check out something like this (but keep in mind who the author is)

It has been written: the fox effect

> We have regulated ourselves out of being competitive on the global market.

And you think those other developed countries all have less regulation? Pull the other one.

>Is it because of our libertarian tendencies?

Yes, it is. The murder rates and most of the health outcomes have had had rigerous studies done that show causation by income inequality. I have not researched the rest, but the correlation between income inequality and those outcomes is really strong at minimum.

The most striking is work done on religiosity and income inequality that demonstrates not only does income inequality drive religiosity, but that it seems to be used by the rich as a tool to oppress the poor.

This is what FOX News and other right wing talk radio is for: It's not to give you real power, it's to keep you scared of other lower class people and servile to the desires of the rich. They use fear, patriotism, and religion as means of control, which they have admitted themselves in candid moments. Now, liberals sometimes do the same, and nobody in media is perfect, but nobody else is as shameless about flat out lying and denying science for political gain as FOX.

I urge you to research for yourself what the data actually says about how to make a great society. A decrease of fear and war-mongering is another byproduct of actually knowing the data.

Your desires to make a better society are good. Make sure that they are based on reality, or you will do real harm instead.


> Seems like the further away from our roots we have legislated the worse off we have become. Of course its hard to establish causality when we spend so much of our collective wealth to wage war. Maybe the corporation that benefits from these wars should pay to feed the poor.

Maybe corporate should. In just about every other developed country, corporate taxes pay for a significant part of healthcare costs. Where to most efficiently raise or save money and how to use it most effectively is a much more nuanced discussion, and is the the one we should be having instead of the one we are.

The radicalization of News and discourse in general has stopped us from having the real discussions we should be having by lying about the true nature of our problems, and often denying we have problems at all. We have real problems, the shape of the solutions is well known, and the main problem is that the rich have shown they can buy enough denial and fear to drown out the discussions we need to be having to create a better, more prosperous, more safe, less warmongering USA.

There are many write ups of this, but the jist of it is coming out of the Nixon admin, a media staffer saw the potential of a news org to swing public opinion. This jr Nixon staffer was named Rodger Ailes and he became a major DC republican operative thru the 80s and 90s. He was the head of Fox from its beginning in the late 90s until 2016 when he was ousted in a sex scandal and died later that year - all the while advising the Trump campaign right up until his death.
Can read about it here in much more detail or on many sites online. The key is to look into the career and goals of Rodger Ailes. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307279588/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_oncxCb6CR3D5K

Chris Wallace is the best of them, but his reporting is biased. Check out his interview with Jon Stewart on youtube. Bret Baier is pathetically biased. Shepard Smith has his moments, but none of them are even close to objective. It's not just in the way they present the news, it's the news Fox chooses to present, what it ignores, the terminology used.

Fox is institutionally one-sided, propagandistic, and as I said, Fox viewers are consistently misinformed, under-informed and ignorant when they re polled. Consistently. Dozens of polls, dozens of years. No question.

Watch the documentary Outfoxed. There are examples of many interviews with reporters who worked there.

Why do you think right wing neocons and Republicans always choose Fox to grant interviews exclusively? It's because they get softball questions. Why do people like Sarah Palin and Huckabee and John Kasich and many other GOP politicians end up getting jobs on air at Fox and no where else? Because Fox is biased, and they can be their party hack selves there.

If you don't know this, you don't know anything. Google around you will find endless information to back me up on this, and no credible sources making the case for Fox's impartiality. Look at the myriad conservative assholes who work there. Hannity, O'Reilly, Megan Kelly, those three shitheads in the morning that Douchy guy, the stupid lady and the overgrown mutant five year old, Brian Kilmeade. Look at the management, the megalomaniacal Rupert Murdoch and the party hack Roger Ailes, who brought us Rush Limbaugh.

Why did Rush Limbaugh endlessly promote Fox on his program when it was new? Because it's to "fair and balanced"? No, because it's a biased propaganda machine for conservatives and Republican greedheads.

Studies find that Fox news tells the truth about 18% of the time. On a good day. And here are endless other articles to back up my claim. I haven't parsed them all, so there may be some opinion pieces in there, but my point is undeniable. They include sources like th Temple foundation, Pew Research, Quora, NY Times, Brookings Institute and so on. there
s just no question about this.

A video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrWGgBKv8go

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/

http://www.alternet.org/story/154875/the_science_of_fox_news%3A_why_its_viewers_are_the_most_misinformed

http://guides.temple.edu/fake

https://forwardprogressives.com/fact-checking-site-finds-fox-news-tells-truth-18-percent-time/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/14/five-facts-about-fox-news/

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/08/fair-balanced-fraud-exposed-94-fox-news-viewers-republicans.html

http://aattp.org/university-professor-do-not-use-fox-news-as-a-source/

http://csweb.brookings.edu/content/research/essays/2014/bad-news.html

http://www.justice-integrity.org/1094-fox-news-spews-mind-changing-propaganda

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21706498-dishonesty-politics-nothing-new-manner-which-some-politicians-now-lie-and

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cody-cain/how-fox-news-destroyed-republican-party_b_9644594.html

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/1964:fourteen-propaganda-techniques-fox-news-uses-to-brainwash-americans

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/02/peak-propaganda-fox-news-creates-an-alternate-reality-and-cnn-perpetuates-it/

https://www.amazon.com/Fox-Effect-Network-Propaganda-Machine/dp/0307279588