Fox News Is Losing Its Grip on the Base

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this week’s episode, host Brian Stelter talks to Vanity Fair staff writer Caleb Ecarma and Bulwark political columnist Amanda Carpenter about the expanding right-wing media ecosystem, from Newsmax to The Daily Wire, “The War Room” to “InfoWars.” (Not to mention Tucker Carlson taking his talents to Twitter.) Can Fox News stave off the insurgents and keep its audience glued to the channel? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Vanity Fair's Inside the Hive, where we are going deep on Fox and the right-wing
0:06.4	media machine.
0:07.4	I'm Brian Stelder.
0:10.9	On this week's show, Fox's rivals on the right.
0:15.1	There are dozens of Fox 1 of bees, and right now, in the wake of Tucker Carlson's firing,
0:20.6	Fox is feeling the pressure, pressure from the likes of Newsmax, and maybe also from Twitter
0:27.1	too.
0:28.1	So joining me to discuss all of that and more, I'm Vanity Fair's staff writer, Kayla
0:31.8	B. Carma, and Amanda Carpenter, a writer at the Woolworth, and the author of What I Think
0:37.1	Is One of the Seminole Books of the Trump Era, titled Gaslighting America, Why We Love It
0:42.7	When Trump Lies To Us.
0:47.0	Welcome to you both.
0:48.0	Thank you.
0:49.0	Thanks.
0:50.0	Amanda, how do you explain the Republican Party and the right-wing media ecosystem?
0:56.6	Where do you place Fox within it?
0:59.2	Then how do you explain the Newsmaxes and the one-American news is all these brands we're
1:03.9	going to talk about that existent times to the right of Fox?
1:06.7	How do you explain this world in 2023?
1:10.2	Well, it's complicated.
1:12.2	Fox is certainly still at the top of the hierarchy, but it is constantly under threat of being
1:19.4	knocked off by its competitors, which is something that even the Fox executives recognize
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