Sunday, August 18, 2019

Former Fox News chief political correspondent reveals that the network "foments fear and anger"

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/13/former-fox-news-chief-political-correspondent-reveals-that-the-network-foments-fear-and-anger_partner/?fbclid=IwAR1ZzEbHfden6Jv3zAkasw2VEwNlQvmkkVYQgAImFafRKW3jbU-yt4x1sr4
"in recent years, right-wing media have found that fear-mongering over illegal immigration can be great for ratings or online traffic — and a report for the New York Times finds that the El Paso shooter used much of the same inflammatory language and rhetoric that right-wing media stars have been espousing. According to Carl Cameron, former chief political correspondent for Fox News, the language of the extreme fringe is now common in right-wing media. Cameron told the Times that right-wing media are now “putting that into the zeitgeist . . . Fox goes out and looks for stuff that is inherently on fire and foments fear and anger"."