Young Viewers Avoid Fox News Like the Plague as Ratings Drop 30%

[TrollBuster9090]

25. Or, to quote David Frum, "conservatives are being fleeced by a right-wing entertainment industry."

So, I'm not sure who brought what on whom. But yes, the reality is that Fox News and the rest of the right wing echo chamber are telling their viewers exactly what they want to hear, for the specific purpose of selling them stuff, and making money through advertising.

For awhile this had a serious distortion effect on the American political system because this propaganda was actually swaying peoples' opinions. I'd say that was the case until around 2005, when we hit the high water mark, and now the pendulum is swinging the other way. Now we're at a point where the propaganda they're spewing in order to sell hearing aids and overpriced GOLD to conservative-leaning simpletons is only harming the simpletons, and not the public at large. The propaganda-based universe is actually damaging the conservative movement.

The government shut-down was a perfect example of that. Practically none of the GOP lawmakers believed it would accomplish anything besides driving their approval ratings into the dirt; but they were FORCED to do it anyway. Forced by their BASE who had been watching Fox and listening to Rush, who were telling them that this strategy would SUCCEED!