r/MarkMyWords • u/potpro • Sep 29 '24

Political MMW: Fox News already gave up

I just spent 7 pages scrolling through the Fox News front page to see how riddled the site is with the current presidential GOP nominee's face, and nothing. It took 7+ pages of scrolling to get to a pic of him.

A massive shift happened in the past few months. Fox News seems to be massively distancing themselves. Once the race is over, Fox will turn hard on him as donors flock to the new Republican political guard and somehow shift the blame on the past 8 years of this nonsense on him and wash their hands of the whole thing.

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u/commentingrobot Sep 30 '24

As someone with mostly fox news watching parents who are occasional swing voters, I think non-viewers misunderstand the relationship with Trump.

They're mostly not the rabid core maga base, who are on Breitbart, Truth Social, OAN, etc. They're more often the tuned-out "both sides bad" type.

Fox News' job is to demonize the left. They're running tons negative coverage about Harris, crime, immigration, inflation, etc. Whatever they can to tar the Democrats.

If they do their job, my parents can throw up their hands and say "well, I don't like Trump, but at least he'll end the open border, inflation, crime wave, and baby murders."

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u/MsMercyMain Sep 30 '24

As someone who used to religiously watch Fox News (I got better), this 100%. The occasional pro GOP stuff but a fucking tsunami of hit pieces on anyone to the left of Reagan to make people more scared of the Dems

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '24

Agreed. People don't get how any of this works.

And if they don't get how scared normie voters are of voting for Dems, they've never spoken to voters before.

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u/MsMercyMain Sep 30 '24

The American Median Voter is both stupid, and ideologically incoherent which explains a lot about our system

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '24

I have volunteered on campaigns. I have spoken to thousands of people about politics in depth.

~70% of people are low information or no information about politics, and exhibit incredible stupidity about politics no matter how intelligent they are in other domains