Phil1111 1,149 #1 November 21, 2017 This is a headline from The Hill: Fox News host rips Trump: You're the president, why don't you act like it? http://thehill.com/homenews/news/361308-fox-news-host-rips-trump-youre-the-president-why-dont-you-act-like-it Its newsworthy because its the third time in about a week where the fact that a Fox News story has attacked its star champion, trump. Is the story! Newsweek has run a feature story on this juxtaposition for Fox news, is it news or a pulpit for old christian white men: Can Fox News Survive the Trump Presidency? Embattled Network Faces Lawsuits, Aging Viewership, New Competitors The feature story is too long to summarize in a few quotes but this paragraph seems to summarize Fox. More than any other major media organization in modern American history, Fox News has found a way to appeal to those “passions of the populace.” The network represents a strain of populism that political scientist Richard Hofstadter described in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, his classic 1963 study of demagoguery. Hofstadter wrote that modern American anti-intellectualism had its birth in the erosion of the agrarian society de Tocqueville had observed a little more than a century before. “As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has constantly rumbled with an underground revolt against all these tormenting manifestations of our modern predicament.” http://www.newsweek.com/2017/11/24/fox-news-survive-trump-presidency-lawsuits-aging-viewership-competition-712543.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolfriverjoe 1,523 #2 November 21, 2017 Phil1111The network represents a strain of populism that political scientist Richard Hofstadter described in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, his classic 1963 study of demagoguery. Hofstadter wrote that modern American anti-intellectualism had its birth in the erosion of the agrarian society de Tocqueville had observed a little more than a century before. “As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has constantly rumbled with an underground revolt against all these tormenting manifestations of our modern predicament.” I think the stereotypical Fox viewer (not typical) can be succinctly summed up with a quote from Gene Wilder as the "Waco Kid" in Blazing Saddles: QuoteYou've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
