Neither Bush or Trump Could Have Won Without Fox News

[kpete]

Matthew Yglesias: “A study by Emory University political scientist Gregory Martin and Stanford economist Ali Yurukoglu estimates that watching Fox News translates into a significantly greater willingness to vote for Republican candidates.”

“Specifically, by exploiting semi-random variation in Fox viewership driven by changes in the assignment of channel numbers, they find that if Fox News hadn’t existed, the Republican presidential candidate’s share of the two-party vote would have been 3.59 points lower in 2004 and 6.34 points lower in 2008. Without Fox, in other words, the GOP’s only popular vote win since the 1980s would have been reversed and the 2008 election would have been an extinction-level landslide.”

“And Fox is not the only thing out there. The Sinclair Broadcast Group is not a television network in a traditional sense. Instead, it’s a company that owns a disparate bunch of local television stations affiliated with all four major networks. But Sinclair does exert centralized control over the ‘local’ television news broadcasts.”

https://web.stanford.edu/~ayurukog/cable_news.pdf
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/4/18249847/fox-news-effect-swing-elections
https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/04/neither-bush-or-trump-could-have-won-without-fox-news/

[Moostache]

1. Sinclair is already MUCH worse than Fox with the propaganda...

We miss the boat entirely if the focus is put only on the idiot brigade at Fox...Sinclair is a far wider and more pervasive threat than most realize.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/02/598794433/video-reveals-power-of-sinclair-as-local-news-anchors-recite-script-in-unison

[rzemanfl]

2. Your subject line. It's National Grammar Day. I wouldn't

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bring it up otherwise.

[captain queeg]

3. On one hand I have a hard time believing how many Trumpsters there are in this country

I guess just not many in my circles. But at least 90% of TVs in public places seem to always be tuned into Fox. It grates my nerves to be trying to eat breakfast at some hotel and to have those idiots on the tube.

[underpants]

4. All of the media made Trump a possibility

That’s at least 1/2 of the explanation of 2016.

[Blue Owl]

5. That miserable fucking network of blatant, unapologetic propaganda...