Yet another Study Finds That Fox News Is Brainwashing Viewers And Hurting The Republican Party

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PoliticusUSA

A new study has found that Fox News is hurting the Republican Party by brainwashing millions of angry conservatives with misinformation.

In a new study of the Fox News effect by Bruce Bartlett, research was collected that demonstrated the negative impact of Fox News on media and politics.

Bartlett described what the founding of Fox News first meant to conservatives, and how it shifted into an act of self-brain washing, “Like someone dying of thirst in the desert, conservatives drank heavily from the Fox waters. Soon, it became the dominant -and in many cases, virtually the only – major news source for millions of Americans. This has had profound political implications that are only starting to be appreciated. Indeed, it can almost be called self-brainwashing – many conservatives now refuse to even listen to any news or opinion not vetted through Fox, and to believe whatever appears on it as the gospel truth.”

Mr. Bartlett documented Fox News’ extreme rightward shift after 9/11 and how the network went from tilting conservative to flat out misinformation and propaganda. The study also sums of years of research that points to Fox News viewers as being the least informed media consumers.

The dominance of Fox News has led to some extremely negative consequences that are harming the Republican Party:

Although this arrangement unquestionably aids Republicans in winning elections and votes in Congress, it is not without its downsides. One is that Fox now exercises such powerful control over the GOP that it has become the party’s kingmaker in presidential primaries.56 Indeed, during the 2012 election cycle, a number of aspirants for the Republican nomination had been paid Fox commentators, including Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. And woe to the Republican who runs afoul of Fox’s top brass or ignores their advice, as Mitt Romney did on one occasion in 2012. Fox is now so important in GOP primaries that candidates must put aside pressing campaign concerns when summoned to a Fox interview, where any error is magnified within the Republican bubble.
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[Mnemosyne]

1. It was started as propaganda, and it remains propaganda. nt

[tanyev]

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[DCBob]

3. Hurts Democrats more.

Alot more.

[BillZBubb]

5. Agreed.

The Democrats have no effective way to answer the Faux BS. It lets the republicans, through Faux, keep the Democrats perpetually on the defensive.

[Arugula Latte]

4. How is it hurting Republicans? What about the 2014 election?

Their influence seems to be growing like a cancer, thanks to propaganda, gerrymandering, Citizens United, and election tampering.

[BillZBubb]

6. The claim it is hurting the republicans is a tough one to believe.

The only place I see it hurting them is in presidential elections, since Faux pushes their candidates to the extreme right.

For all other elections Faux is a huge asset because it keeps the right wing base fired up and gets them out to vote republican in every election. Democrats tend to disappear in non-presidential cycles.

[BlueJazz]

7. I've said this once or twice in the past few years and it's fairly obvious. IF the tables were...

...reversed and Fox news was left-wing and the Democrats were broadcasting lies and propaganda, I'd be terrified to work for Fox news...hell, I'd be afraid to even work in the building that houses Fox News. You know what I'm talking about.

This is NOT in any way saying it's what we Democrats should or would do...only pointing out the difference between the left and the right.

I don't trust the fuckers.

[Politicalboi]

8. Most of us would be ashamed to say we watch it

Or ashamed to say we're Dem's. These people have no shame and are proud to be Faux viewers. Look at the election in 2014 on Staten Island. They would rather vote for the felon GOP asshole than the fake Dem. Most knew Grimes was going to jail, but he still won over that idiot Dem.

[KamaAina]

9. Are you sure that isn't Borowitz?