Last night I was researching on my computer “who owns Fox News?” I’ll come back to that in another post on another day, but the short answer is Robert Murdoch owns Fox News. While doing my reading I came across this spectacular article written by Heather Hogan at Autostraddle. The article is brilliant and I have not read anything like it here on Daily Kos. Hogan speaks to the Fox News Propaganda Cycle and presents an excellent graph depicting the cycle.
It is clear that the unstable man in the White House uses Fox News as a propaganda outlet- as political weaponry- and as such the more understanding we have of this weapon the better off we are in defeating it.
Hogan has studied Fox News methodology since 2004 and in her article she shares her culmination of research.
Here are a few quotes from Heather’s article:
Over the last ten years, everyone I know has lost a friend or family member or mentor to Fox News. Like me, they have watched helplessly as people they love have become part of the conservative punditry herd and, over time, traded their compassion for paranoia; their thoughtful opinions for manufactured outrage; and their empathy for hateful rhetoric.
What these people so dear to us fail to understand is that Fox News is not only uninterested in being fair and balanced; it is also uninterested in being a reliable source of news. That’s because Fox News is playing a zero-sum political game in which every major news story is an opportunity to use their viewers as pawns to advance the power and agenda of the most extremist ideology of the Republican Party.
Study after study has shown that Fox News viewers are the most uninformed and misinformed people in America. One recent study even found that people who didn’t watch any news programs at all had a firmer grasp on the reality of current events than those who only watched Fox News.
I do hope you will take a look at the Fox News Propaganda Cycle graph.