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Rachel Maddow Gives Historical Perspective On the Limits of Powerful Messengers On Media Platforms
Within 24 hours she lays out the Carlson thing in the media's history of profiting from FUD.
How no anchor is bigger than the platform. The FOX platform continues.
Whether it's Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly or Carlson who've left, FOX has a FUD formula that works in whatever new variation the eventual replacement anchor provides.
NYU's Jay Rosen claims that conservative media use "reverse verification" -- an academic version of FUD, imo.
Or as Chuck D called it 15 years ago -- the dumbassification of America.
It's still a fact that 7 million more Americans out-vote FUD addicts at the ballot box.
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