Original 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 Have 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
Ch. 9: The biggest difference between Trump and Nixon is Fox News - Impeachment, Explained - Air Date 11-8-19
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):
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: A slightly distorted Fox News logo sits askew at the center of a hypnotic spiral.
Credits: “Fox News” by Johnny Silvercloud, Flickr | License | Changes: Added hypnotic swirl background, cropped, faded edges || Hypnosis Spiral via Pixabay
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Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
#TBT #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law
#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)
Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend
#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back
#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights
#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations
#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)
Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes
#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit
#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)
Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)
#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)
#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine
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