What Next - Can Fox News Still Sway an Election?
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Hit with an $800 million lawsuit, missing Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch, and facing competition from fanatical fringe-right media, Fox News might look to some viewers like it’s slipping. But election years are the network’s bread and butter, and the old “everything is terrible and the Democrats are why” song still resonates with voters.
Guest: Justin Peters, Slate correspondent and author of The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet.
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| 0:23.6 | Until 18-plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Every now and again, when I'm feeling adventurous, I find it useful to click on over to Fox News and see the way video clips and |
| 0:45.5 | news headlines are getting refracted and fed out to tens of millions of cable news |
| 0:50.8 | subscribers all around the country. |
| 0:53.4 | Fox who's alert, a night of anarchy on the west coast |
| 0:57.1 | after Kifa and Tifa got their hands on more weapons than Zilinsky. |
| 1:01.5 | This is Jesse Waters, for instance, talking about the college protests |
| 1:06.3 | a few weeks back. He meant to call these protesters the Kofia Antifa, but anyway. |
| 1:11.9 | Not your typical mostly peaceful protesters. |
| 1:14.6 | Weapons of choice, included fire extinguishers, bottles, |
| 1:18.0 | two by fours, and umbrellas. |
| 1:20.4 | Laura Ingram dubbed these protesters Prohymas Brats. |
| 1:24.0 | Sean Hannity called them radical ignorant freaks. |
| 1:28.0 | Islamic extremists, if they just yell loud enough, |
| 1:31.0 | Joe, your president will do whatever they want. |
| 1:34.0 | Take a look. |
| 1:35.0 | Justin Peters, who watches Fox for Slate. |
| 1:39.0 | He says all this name calling has become very familiar. The point is all to, you know, create this very image-laden narrative of a country under siege. |
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