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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It is honestly shocking how much Fox News' rhetoric about immigrants mirrors Nazi propaganda:

- they're bringing disease
- they're foreign agents
- they're criminals
- they're going to take power here

[b]It's genocidal propaganda being delivered under the guise of a news network.[/b][/quote]

https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1069997217514168320

This is 100% true.

Tucker Carlson echoes white supremacist talking points.

Laura Ingraham echoes white supremacist talking points.

People at rightwing hate sites think Tucker and Ingraham are on their side.  That's bad.

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Rupert Murdoch did the same thing in the UK and Australia - use white identity politics to get votes to enrich himself.  He doesn't care about how much damage he does to the country, as long as he can influence politicians and put money in his own pocket.

Meanwhile, the biggest predictor of heavy watching of Fox News is low levels of education.

[quote]https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/07/21/a-rigorous-scientific-look-into-the-fox-news-effect/
-William Poundstone, Author of Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up

In my research too, Fox News viewers scored the lowest of over 30 popular news sources (though Fox viewers did at least score better than those saying they didn't follow the news). The chart’s horizontal black lines with tick marks indicate the margins of statistical error. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a news satire, had the best-informed viewers.

The Fox News effect is a correlation. It doesn't prove that watching Fox News causes people to be ill-informed.
Causes are much trickier to establish. I will give my guesses (along with the warning that they're only guesses). The first thing to realize is that every news medium has its own audience demographics. It's no secret to advertisers that the average Fox News viewer has less formal education and income than the average New York Times reader.
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[b]Why are we allowing a foreign billionaire to brainwash 30% of America's population, especially the low-educated, to enrich himself???
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Another thread has a fascinating interview with Camille Paglia, apparently a well-known LEFTIST intellectual.

Money quote:

"The mainstream media’s nonstop assault on Trump has certainly backfired by cementing his outsider status. He is basically a pragmatic deal-maker, indifferent to ideology. As with Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump rose because of decades of failure by the political establishment to address urgent systemic problems, including corruption at high levels. Democrats must hammer out their own image and agenda and stop self-destructively insulting half the electorate by treating Trump like Satan."[/quote]

Excellent quote by Paglia.  Though it will never be taken to heart by her intended audience - liberals.[/quote]

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