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STEVEN ROSENFELD, ALTERNET, Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/new-study-shows-how-breitbart-media-created-the-fact-adverse-nation-that-elected-trump/
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Right-wing media evolved into a hall of mirrors in 2016, when Breitbart displaced Fox News as the key agenda-setting and attack-leading epicenter of a disinformation-filled, paranoid ecosystem promoting Donald Trump and his pro-white America agenda.
Breitbart not only led the rights obsessive, hostile focus on immigrants, it was also the first to attack professional reporting such as the New York Times and Washington Post. Breitbarts disruptive template fueled the political and information universe we now inhabit, where the right dismisses facts and embraces fantasies.
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These observations are among the takeaways of a major study from Columbia Journalism Review that analyzed 1.25 million stories published online between April 2015 and Election Day 2016. While the study affirmed what many analysts have long perceivedthat right-wing media and those who consume it inhabit a paranoid and dark parallel universeit also documented shifts in the rights media ecosystem; namely, Breitbart supplanting Fox News as the leading purveyor of extreme disinformation.
A right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart [has] developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world, CJR wrote. This pro-Trump media sphere appears to have not only successfully set the agenda for the conservative media sphere, but also strongly influenced the broader media agenda, in particular coverage of Hillary Clinton.
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underpants
(182,878 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
n2doc
(47,953 posts)But Rush and Michael Savage (and others of their ilk) were way ahead of them in the make up shit and spew it game. AM hate radio is an insulated world too, for those out in the sticks.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)took it to a new level.