[Vision2020] How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics

[Shawn Clabough]

Abstract:      



The creation of Fox News in 1996 was an event of deep, yet unappreciated,
political and historical importance. For the first time, there was a news
source available virtually everywhere in the United States, 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, with a conservative tilt. Finally, conservatives did not have
to seek out bits of news favorable to their point of view in liberal
publications or in small magazines and newsletters. 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.

 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2604679

 

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