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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaddow explains the conservative media model: ‘Everybody else is out to get you’
Conservative media outlets encourage their audiences to keep viewing only their content by demonizing other news sources, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
If I am trying to get across a point of view, I have to persuade and not assert, she said in April at The Castro Theater in San Francisco. Because I cant assume that everybody is already agreeing with me when I start to make the funny voice. I cant assume that Im not going to offend somebody that thinks that person shouldnt be made fun of. So, I try to be sort of ecumenical. I try not to imagine my audience being people who already agree with me. I, in fact, try to imagine a Republican audience.
I think the conservative media model involves this one really important step that liberals dont use, Maddow continued, which is, listen to me, I am the light and the truth and the way, you have to believe what I say and everybody else is out to get you and you cant listen to anybody else, dont change the channel, theyre trying to kill you. Liberals dont say that. Conservatives tell their audience that.
That sense of an embattled community that needs to protect itself from someone who is trying to victimize them is not part of a way liberals talk in the media.
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underpants
(182,772 posts)oh and WE ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AND ALWAYS WIN!!!
Rachel hit the nail on the head. I have been saying it for years. We live in a bubble.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)It is a precise description of what they do, but it's really a stretch to call it news.
It's MFing propaganda for chrissakes.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)only 10% positive coverage since January 2011 (and Dog knows how bad it was during the election).
applegrove
(118,622 posts)perceptive. They are easier to fool. No self reflection when you are angry.