A Fox employee said executives at the network said they wanted to purposely air 'grievance' to 'get

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

people boiled up': NYT

Executives at Fox News indicated to employees that they wanted to push a narrative that focused on "grievance," according to a report published Saturday by The New York Times.

One current Fox employee said the network execs had a goal to highlight "the grievance, the stuff that would get people boiled up."

The driving narrative, the employee suggested, was one that made viewers believe they're in danger. "They're coming for you, the Blacks are coming for you, the Mexicans are coming for you," the employee told The Times.

Media Matters, a nonprofit media watchdog, has published reports accusing Fox News of fearmongering across a variety of issues, from terrorism at the southern border to critical race theory to the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-employee-said-executives-network-140556031.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Racism, fear mongering and scapegoating - Fascism 101

[BlueIdaho]

2. Nothing New

The Rotten White Right have been whining about their inadequacies for decades. Nothing is ever their fault. God forbid they actually look in the mirror and accept some responsibility of the mess they’ve made of their lives.

[PXR-5]

3. Be afraid, very afraid!

Every person I know that watches Fox is an angry person, and full of fear.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. This has all been done purposely. They promote a very angry

and dumbed down viewership.
Same with right wing radio.
It has ruined our nation.

[keep_left]

8. This is also a big part of how hate radio and fundie TV operate...

...everything from CBN/Pat Robertson to the "hot talkers" (radio industry shop-talk for hosts that go right up to the line of sedition, or further). These people push fear, fear, fear all day long. Fear the gays, fear AOC, fear "secularism", fear everything. It's a means of control.

[Javaman]

4. 2 minute hate. Nt

[Blue Owl]

6. Fuck those Nazis

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[uponit7771]

9. +1,

[Skittles]

7. ignorance and fear is what makes the repuke base so easily manipulated

the GOP knows this and so does Fox Fucking News

[sop]

10. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be

led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken

[bhikkhu]

11. It's obvious, and a classic propaganda technique

Why they do it is clear, but why people willingly tune in and get themselves brain-jacked is still unclear. I can't imagine being like that.

I don't watch TV myself, haven't had cable in 20 years. But at work there's a waiting room and the TV there is usually tuned to Fox. I walk by twenty times a day and catch a few lines of whatever they're talking about every time. Almost always angry looking people complaining about stuff, or complaining about how stuff makes them feel. Life's too short.

[highplainsdem]

12. Same thing RW talk radio has always done. Toxic as hell, but effective for getting

people involved and wanting to repeat the fearmongering.

[Bev54]

13. Carlson does not talk to the executive, he speaks directly with Murdoch.

[ificandream]

14. Nothing new.

This has been Fox's programming since its inception. And it's been reported again and again. It shouldn't be news anymore that they're doing this. That's what those jerks do and call it news.

[Mr. Sparkle]

15. Wait, so they are not an news organization but a political operation?

well you could have knocked me down with a feather.

On a side note, its galling when news media gives credence to fox, pretending as if they are anything but a propaganda station.