Jay RosenMar 8, 2023

One conflict between me and some people who follow me on social media: I think it's difficult to describe what Fox is, they think it's easy.

Propaganda. Entertainment. Angertainment. Pro Wrestling.

My current description of Fox:

The commercial arm of a right wing political movement, specializing in strategic resentment and aggregated grievance in the attention economy, while behind the scenes it tries to be a kingmaker and party boss, riding the tiger of manipulated rage.

#uspol #journalism

Show threadGollyMar 8, 2023
@jayrosen_nyu why commercial arm and not media arm?
Show threadJay RosenMar 8, 2023

@golly

Because Fox makes $2 billion+ a year. The fact that it makes money from politics is more important that the (equally true) fact that it makes media from politics.

Show threadGolly
@jayrosen_nyu hadn’t heard “angertainment” before but for me, if you subbed that in for “commercial” it’s a great definition, since entertainment seems intrinsically a business.
Mar 8, 2023 at 11:35pmWeb