Foxocracy

2019-10-29 Political Science

Author : Tobin Smith
Release : 2019-10-29
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Foxocracy written by Tobin Smith. This book was released on 2019-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a 14-year Fox News contributor, guest anchor, and two-time New York Times bestselling author comes an unprecedented insider's account of the Fox News playbook––the production secrets and manipulation strategies Fox News uses to influence viewers, divide families, weaponize the daily discourse of news and public opinion, and addict a core audience on right-wing rage and fear. Fox News did not start America's culture war––but they did have the manipulative and destructive genius to exploit it for billions of dollars. For the first time, a Fox News veteran exposes and diagrams the toxic strategies and tactics within the Fox News playbook that liberal and progressive candidates will be fighting against in 2020 and beyond. It is the very same playbook that Fox News used to move twelve percent of Independents to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 to produce Republican wins in the previous Democrat strongholds of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Author Tobin Smith takes readers behind the scenes of the actual production of the "fair and balanced" opinion panel segments that feed a ravenous audience. How are these productions rigged so that right-wing pundits always win? What techniques does Fox News use in manipulating its viewers' tribal instincts: to addict them; to activate a hatred toward partisan enemies; and to hook them on ego-gratifying feelings of intellectual and cultural superiority? Foxocracy is filled with never-revealed conversations with Fox News executives––including the late Roger Ailes––and opinion programming producers. It breaks down the real and often heartbreaking collateral damage among friends and family caused by the waging of an endless culture war. And it brings incendiary proof from an insider and on-air talent of Fox News's predatory audience manipulation psychology and production tactics. And perhaps even more frightening, this book reveals how that playbook is now being insidiously upgraded for maximum effect––white tribal-identity activation––on all forms of social media and means of content delivery.

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2024-05-20 Law

Author : Milkyway Media
Release : 2024-05-20
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Summary of Tobin Smith's Foxocracy written by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Tobin Smith's Foxocracy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Foxocracy" by Tobin Smith examines the Fox News Channel's (FNC) strategy of exploiting white tribal identity to influence American conservatives. The book details how FNC's emotionally charged content creates deep political and cultural divides, often leading to isolation and health issues among its predominantly older white American viewership. Smith draws parallels between FNC's tactics and 1930s German propaganda, emphasizing the network's destructive potential...

Foxocracy: Inside Fox News' Weaponized Civil War: (+ How We Fight Back and Win!)

2020 Business & Economics

Author : Tobin Smith
Release : 2020
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Foxocracy: Inside Fox News' Weaponized Civil War: (+ How We Fight Back and Win!) written by Tobin Smith. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NY Times bestselling author and former Fox News analyst/contributor (2000-2013) Tobin Smith is the first veteran FNC insider to expose the bombshell secrets buried deep inside Fox News that even the most critical media has missed. In this firsthand expose of Fox News' tribal activation agenda and fraudulent production tactics, Smith gives all Americans a major wakeup call about the never disclosed family and personal health risks associated with addiction to Fox News' brand of weaponized tribal fear, rage and blame "pornography" which Fox calls "opinion panel programming." Under the pretense of their "news" division, Smith makes a convincing case that the REAL business of Fox News has always been a carefully orchestrated fake opinion debate conspiracy. While disclosing dozens of never revealed and well-guarded production secrets learned from FNC's programming executives, Smith details how the 2,000+ Fox's "fair and balanced" right/ left opinion debates he appeared in were secretly rigged by Fox News producers for the rightwing performers to always "win." "Fox News business model and its "fair and balanced" panel debate scam morphed into the unconscionable: We went from entertaining elderly right wing partisans by eviscerating 3rd rate leftwing "libtards" on their TV to purposely fomenting and monetizing cultural/political tribal warfare and class resentment. Even more despicably, this $multi-billion public company purposely targets and emotionally manipulates America's most emotionally vulnerable citizens. What the media and government fails to understand is 1) the audience reach of Fox News' addictive brand of fixed outcome tribalism with social media redistribution now reaches 100+ million Americans monthly and 2) Fox News' tribal hate porn programming has become a selfreinforcing and massively destructive tribal activation digital feedback loop ensnaring millions. - Tobin Smith '' Smith asks the question: When do we have the public reckoning for Fox News and regulate this democracy crushing insanity like the national reckoning from the whistleblowing revelations about Facebook? FOXOCRACY pulls the curtain back on Fox News' to prevent further damage to America's democracy and millions of estranged families who've lost parents and siblings to what Smith identifies as an epidemic of "Fox News Social Derangement Disorder" in its most addicted viewers.

The Great Dismissal

2022-12-29 Literary Criticism

Author : Henry Sussman
Release : 2022-12-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Great Dismissal written by Henry Sussman. This book was released on 2022-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences? In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on 'the great dismissal,' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.

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