%% Contemporary Issues in the Media %%
Partisanship and the News
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Humanities
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1 minute
- Fox News
- Owned by Australian billionaire Rupert Murdock
- Now operated by his son Lachlan Murdock
- Hugely popular with elderly people
- Own identity
- Mutual influence with Trump
- Sins:
- Knowingly lies
- Exploits confusion to create mass suspicion and cynicism
- "everything was possible and [...] nothing was true"
- Exploits fear-mongering
- War rationalizes immoral behaviour
- Politicizes news
- Distracts from real crises
- Destroys empathy and creates narcissism
- War rhetoric
- Rationalises immoral behaviour in times of peace
- Us vs them (like team sports)
- "You are under attack. They are coming for you."
- Them: ethnic groups, Dems, the media, etc.
- War rhetoric
- Impossible to argue with people who speak Fox
- Different language with its own lexicons (symbols)
- Alternate reality
Ajitani Hifumi