It Isn’t Fox That’s Changed | Crooks and Liars

It Isn't Fox That's Changed

Worse news suggests Fox “Hasn’t Change” it’s selling the same product. However the White House isn’t just seeing it as support it’s using and buying it as policy Murdoch’s America and Trump is his shill (ODT)

But has Fox changed, or has the White House? In the Bush era, and later when Republicans lost and then regained power during the Obama years, Fox was seen as an effective tool for catapulting GOP propaganda, but the Bush team and congressional Republicans didn’t turn Fox employees into advisers — party members developed the messages and relied on Fox to retransmit them. This administration gets messages from Fox. The old guard, some of whom are still around, produced content for Fox; the Trump administration is a consumer of that content.

That’s what’s changed. Fox is what it always was. It always shilled for the GOP, or at least the wing of the GOP that was the least conciliatory. It always used fear to radicalize its viewers and to win viewer loyalty. The only difference is that now one of those loyal marathon viewers is president.

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