#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 10/27/2021
Today we take a look at some of the ways that 25 years of Fox News has reshaped our media and political landscape. Crucially, understanding Fox isn't just about their influence on their conservative viewers but how they manage to hack the political conversation for the rest of us.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The War On Fox Is Over - The Young Turks - Air Date 12-22-13
Archive clip from A parody of itself (Media) - Best of the Left - Archives - Air Date 2-17-14
Ch. 2: Losing Relatives to Fox News - You're Wrong About - Air Date 12-7-20
Mike tells Sarah what makes older Americans more vulnerable to misinformation — and who is delivering it to them.
Ch. 3: Kevin Drum on how Fox 'News' broke America - The Bradcast - Air Date 9-17-21
Data journalist and longtime Mother Jones columnist KEVIN DRUM explains his exhaustive analysis of the madness of this political moment, and how and why we arrived at it. The Right has seemingly gone mad due to the spread of conspiracy theories.
Ch. 4: You're watching Fox News. You just don't know it. - Vox - Air Date 5-24-19
Fox News was created to push right-wing nonsense to the mainstream, and now there’s no escape.
Ch. 5: Conspiracy Network OAN 90% Funded by AT&T - The David Pakman Show - Air Date 10-7-21
Right wing conspiracy network OAN turns out to be 90% funded by AT&T
Ch. 6: How Fox News Made Every Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse - The New Abnormal - Air Date 10-7-21
Yes, it’s been 25 years since Fox News came on the air—25 years of “refracting the absolute most absurd and destructive and deadly disinformation and misinformation from the right wing fever swamps,” Carusone tells co-hosts Molly and Jesse.
Ch. 7: What 25 Years Of Fox News Poison Has Done To America - All In - Air Date 10-8-21
Chris Hayes marks 25 years of dangerous lies from Fox News: “There is a direct pipeline from what appears on Fox News to the absolute worst manifestations, worst behavior, worst elements of our politics and society.”
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Former Fox News Reporter Tells All - David Pakman Show - Air Date 2-05-13
Archive clip from Ridiculing Fox isn't just fun, it's important (Media) - Best of the Left - Archives - Air Date 2-28-13
Nicole Hemmer, the brilliant historian of conservative media, joins to discuss how Fox News and the larger conservative media-verse protects Trump but also lures him into disaster.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on the multi-decade victim mentality of conservatives about the media
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | take a look at some of the ways that 25 years of Fox News has reshaped our media and political |
| 0:12.7 | landscapes. Crucially, understanding Fox isn't just about their influence on their conservative |
| 0:17.8 | viewers, but how they've managed to hack the political conversation for the rest of us |
| 0:22.9 | as well. Clips today are from the Young Turks from way back in 2013. You're wrong about |
| 0:31.0 | the Bradcast, Vox, the David Pakman show, the new app normal, all in with Chris Hayes, and |
| 0:37.9 | impeachment explained. So first up is that 2013 clip from the Young Turks. I'm starting |
| 0:43.3 | with this because I find it fascinating. The perspective of media matters, the organization |
| 0:49.2 | practically dedicated to exposing the conservative bias of Fox News at that time in 2013. |
| 1:01.6 | A lot of you might know that media matters is a group that is making sure that the conservative |
| 1:07.3 | media is kept in check. The basic thing that they've done for a long time, which I love, |
| 1:11.5 | is they just hope to conservative media, particularly Fox News, and that it rages Fox News. |
| 1:17.3 | They're like, how dare you quote us over and over again. Now oftentimes, Fox News will do |
| 1:23.2 | the usual BS criticism of, oh, they took us out of context and the media matters will put |
| 1:27.8 | the whole segment up and say, here's the context and it'll look just as bad. And they'll |
| 1:31.2 | be, damn it, I told you to stop quoting us. Well, Fox News might have their way because |
| 1:37.4 | media matters believes that they've kicked Fox News's ass so much and so hard that the |
| 1:43.2 | war is pretty much over. That's awesome. Now back in 2011, the founder of Media Matters, |
| 1:50.2 | David Brock had declared an all out quote war on Fox. And he had said, our formula is this. |
| 1:58.8 | We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Number one. Number one. And apparently they did. |
| 2:04.8 | Now, Media Matters Exhausted Vice President, Injulu, Kerosene has come out and said, quote, |
| 2:10.4 | the war on Fox is over. And he continues by saying, and it's not just that it's over, |
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