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Grammy23

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4. Fox is very good at thinking for their viewer who is too lazy

Reply to MariaCSR (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 09:44 AM

Oct 2017

or ill informed to do it for themselves. They have fed their prejudices and fanned their fears for so long that their viewers trust them. It never occurs to the viewer to verify what they are told because they are not suspicious they are being fed BS. Fox is quite good at giving them what they want to hear and convincing them not to trust other news organizations. My experience with their viewers is they are unable or unwilling to listen to anything that conflicts with their trusted news source—

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