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Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

A stunning new study shows that Fox News is more powerful than we ever imagined

Author:     Dylan Matthews
Source:     VOX
Publication Date:     Sep 8, 2017, 9:00am EDT
 Link: A stunning new study shows that Fox News is more powerful than we ever imagined
Stephan:   The Fox Channel, in my view, is a long term carefully executed multi-year well-funded strategy to turn America into a Christofascist identitarian nation. And the truth is, as of today, it is succeeding, as this report describes. The American population, like the Germans before them, driven to irrationality by fear of change are being manipulated to acquiesce in the creation of an ideological kleptocracy. There is only one thing that is going to stop this, and that is the actions and choices of American citizens. You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. And it's time to choose.

Fox News is, by far, America’s dominant TV news channel; in the second quarter of 2017, Fox posted 2.35 million total viewers in primetime versus 1.64 million for MSNBC and 1.06 million for CNN. Given that Fox was founded by a longtime Republican Party operative and has almost exclusively hired conservative commentators, talk radio hosts, and the like to host its shows, it would stand to reason that its dominance on basic cable could influence how Americans vote, perhaps even tipping elections.

A new study in the American Economic Review (the discipline’s flagship journal), with an intriguing and persuasive methodology, finds exactly that. Emory University political scientist Gregory Martin and Stanford economist Ali Yurukoglu estimate that watching Fox News directly causes a substantial rightward shift in viewers’ attitudes, which translates into a significantly greater willingness to vote for Republican candidates.

They estimate that if Fox News hadn’t existed, the Republican presidential candidate’s share of the two-party vote would have been 3.59 points lower in 2004 and 6.34 points lower in 2008.

For context, that would’ve made John Kerry the 2004 popular vote winner, and turned […]

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1 Comment

  1. Steve Hovland on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    CNN would be more popular if they weren’t such a blatant propaganda engine.