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Liberals like saying Fox "is eating my mother’s brain" as an NYT OpEd put it. What they won't point out is a third of Black Democrats get news from Fox, and it has the biggest working class audience in the biz. Fox is conservative because of its viewers, not the other way round. https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1352601886780698624
Oof blocked. Here's the tweet
and some data backing up my view that Fox News' conservatism stems from something liberals don't like to talk about: Working class people of all races tend to be more conservative.
Fox declared Joe Biden the winner of the election the next day. It condemned the riot on Capital Hill in the most extreme terms. Chris Wallace called Biden's inauguration speech the best he'd ever heard. People should watch it if they're going to demand it be canceled.
Since the 70s, the mainstream press telegraphed in a host of ways that it was not for the working class, leaning in to the model the NYT pioneered - exclusive content to get exclusive ads for an exclusive audience. That Murdoch recognized an opportunity there is our fault, too.
Liberals don't understand that the reason to care about working class representation in the media and government is not because they are worthy victims who share your values. It's because power concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite is anathema to and dangerous for democracy.
