"I Spent 11 Hours Inside the MAGA Bubble"

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Tina Nguyen
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My assignment was to watch One America News (OAN) for a full day: 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., no turning the television off, no leaving my apartment and no channel-switching whatsoever.

Here is what I learned.

The World According to Trump’s Favorite Network
OAN is making a play for the pro-Trump audience, but it's missing its star player. What I saw during an 11 hour binge.
politico.com
7:20 AM · Feb 7, 2021

One America News is making a play for the pro-Trump audience, but it's missing its star player. Here's what I saw during a day-long binge.

The anchor dutifully nodded along—a markedly different reaction to Lindell’s later appearance on Newsmax the next day, which turned into a nuclear meltdown after its hosts pointed out that Lindell’s claims about Dominion were unsubstantiated. (Dominion has threatened to file a defamation suit against Newsmax.) OAN has continued to side with Lindell, swiping Newsmax for “censor[ing]” their interview with the CEO, and later airing his documentary about voter fraud—albeit with a two-minute long disclaimer saying that Lindell was solely responsible for these claims.

The host of the 6 p.m. block had the night off, so OAN instead re-broadcast a documentary they had aired on Inauguration Day, entitled “Trump: the Legacy of a Patriot.” For the next 45 minutes, a man in a star-spangled tie presented a stream of bullet points detailing Trump’s accomplishments. I used that opportunity to make potato dumplings.

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“Legacy of a Patriot” was only the beginning of the most intensely pro-Trump block of the night.

The moment I settled back on the couch with my dumplings, topics that hadn’t been visited for most of the day came roaring into view: election fraud, border control, the benefits of hydroxychloroquine that the mainstream media wouldn’t tell you, and that Trump had been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for the fourth time in a row. And in the subsequent primetime opinion shows, the company line emerged: OK, fine, Biden was the legitimate president, but why did the Democrats continue to hate Trump so much?

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1. TY

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2. Kick

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3. Did she get hazard pay for this assignment? nt

[Nevilledog]

4. Hopefully they provided her with counseling.