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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ex-Reagan adviser: Fox News is ‘self-brainwashing’ Republicans into a radical fringe party [View all]
He's absolutely spot on!
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/ex-reagan-adviser-fox-news-is-self-brainwashing-republicans-into-a-radical-fringe-party/
Economist Bruce Bartlett, a former adviser to both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, warned over the weekend that Fox News had damaged the Republican Party by creating a bubble for conservatives to brainwash themselves.
In his paper How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics published earlier this month, Bartlett theorized that watching the network was essentially self-brainwashing for viewers, making them believe that the United States was a more conservative nation than it actually was. And so the Republican Party had responded by running radical conservatives that representative Fox News viewers, but not the true state of the electorate.
Many conservatives live in a bubble where they watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people, Bartlett told CNNs Brian Stelter on Sunday. When they go onto the Internet, they look at conservative websites like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily.
And so, they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And thats brainwashing.
Bartlett asserted that it was a bigger problem for conservatives than liberals because they did not have their own network for a long time, and then they drank very heavily from the Fox waters.
In his paper How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics published earlier this month, Bartlett theorized that watching the network was essentially self-brainwashing for viewers, making them believe that the United States was a more conservative nation than it actually was. And so the Republican Party had responded by running radical conservatives that representative Fox News viewers, but not the true state of the electorate.
Many conservatives live in a bubble where they watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people, Bartlett told CNNs Brian Stelter on Sunday. When they go onto the Internet, they look at conservative websites like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily.
And so, they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And thats brainwashing.
Bartlett asserted that it was a bigger problem for conservatives than liberals because they did not have their own network for a long time, and then they drank very heavily from the Fox waters.
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Ex-Reagan adviser: Fox News is ‘self-brainwashing’ Republicans into a radical fringe party [View all]
RKP5637
May 2015
OP
They are brainwashing anyone who watches that crap thinking they are watching a real news station.
DCBob
May 2015
#1
They really are. Fox News is a subversive operation intent on undermining the US as they operate
RKP5637
May 2015
#15
I believe gerrymandering and vote suppression can be fixed politically
passiveporcupine
May 2015
#94
Of course we cant make it go away but we need to find a way to minimize its impact.
DCBob
May 2015
#95
see, it's not just that it's a corporate arm (with several fundies attached) kicking out any liberal
MisterP
May 2015
#6
I was watching C-SPAN Washington Journal the day the shit hit the fan. I think it was
brewens
May 2015
#11
I agree. I have reason to believe C-Span was/is screening callers based on ideology.
Enthusiast
May 2015
#33
I recall hearing similar. And also that Rush Limbaugh was aired a lot on armed forces radio, etc. nt
RKP5637
May 2015
#24
Someone posted a pro Duggar link on FB and it got one like and sank like a stone.
brewens
May 2015
#13
One of my left-wing buddies got to bugging me and I had to take him off my feed.
brewens
May 2015
#22
To Republicans any news agency is liberal if it isnt biased in favor of Republican candidates
cstanleytech
May 2015
#16
There was quite a period where newspaper and TV news people did tend to be liberal.
brewens
May 2015
#17
Well no shit. Hell I remember years ago when Fox News first started out and I was talking to
cstanleytech
May 2015
#14
Most of us already KNEW that, it just takes conservatives LOOONG time to figure it out. n/t
vkkv
May 2015
#32
This fits the Oligarchs plan. Run the Republicon Clown Car off the cliff and
rhett o rick
May 2015
#39
As Marshall McCluhan pointed out and George Orwell before him in fiction, the media is capable of mass
world wide wally
May 2015
#40
Assuming some Republicans have brains to be brainwashed, he may be right.
Major Hogwash
May 2015
#45
They've brainwashed a lot of Democratic office holders into thinking the same thing
tularetom
May 2015
#53
"The same limited amount of data repeated over and over again." That is a kind way to
Jefferson23
May 2015
#58
And they've been doing it since 1996! Helped along by RW radio, too, of course. nt
valerief
May 2015
#76
It's a bigger problem for conservatives because liberals think for themselves.
eppur_se_muova
May 2015
#82