In Orwell’s “1984” the protagonist, Winston Smith, is thrilled to finally receive the one book in the realm that tells the truth about how the political machine works. He had suspected it all along and then he gets confirmation. “The best books are the ones that tell you what you already know,” he says.
Same with news articles. The best ones confirm your worst suspicions and you’re about to see one here.
Yes, Virginia, Fox News does coordinate with GOP office holders to formulate propaganda. In fact, they’ve written a handbook.
Not a good sign when your 60 page internal use memo to get on Fox News gets discovered pic.twitter.com/evTUilLObw
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 28, 2022
Isn’t that delightful? Nobody cares about the data, in fact, nobody gives a damn about governing in the first place, so what do they need with data? That’s rather dry and dull, but creating incendiary spots on Fox News in order to stay in power — now that’s worthwhile.
I wonder if this is part of the handbook, a little glossary, as it were.
We will be looking for the 60-page memo. Maybe it will turn out to be the fake news equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. Stay tuned.
” in a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” Hunter S Thompson
I would say rest in peace, but I know in my gut, that’s the last goddamn thing Hunter would want.
Probably the same ethos that Newt Gingrich put in place during the 1990s…maybe even the same text. You have to wonder, though…how much of that psy-op stuff was refined by Putin’s people starting from, say, 2010 on?
That seems like it would be enough to get fox cancelled. It establishes a link between the gop and russian propaganda.
Too bad that we no longer have a functioning judicial system….
Now if fox was selling single pall malls they could get shot, legally.