Dear Friend,

For the last four years Fox News—or “state TV”—has acted as Trump’s mouthpiece. But now that Joe Biden has beaten Trump, will Fox News viewers accept less Trump-focused coverage?

Jake Bittle, writing for The New Republic, explains that cable news “excels at negativity: Viewers on both ends of the political spectrum tune in to hear not just their own side championed but the other maligned.” And the Fox pundits “are already preparing to take up the mantle of the opposition.”

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Bittle reminds us that Fox will “work to poison the well of public opinion in the same way it did under Barack Obama.” When “Obama rolled out his health care plan, the Fox triad [Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck] transformed from gadflies into hyenas, denouncing the plan as ‘the end of America as you know it,’” and comparing the administration to “Nazi Germany, Marxist Russia, and Orwell’s 1984.” 

As Bittle warns, assuming Biden “ever gets around to rolling out his big plans, then, Fox will have exactly the tool kit and the personnel it needs to render those proposals dead on arrival.”

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Sincerely,

Kerrie Gillis, publisher

Read Jake Bittle’s Fox News Prepares to Wage a Culture War on Joe Biden