Fox News Uses 'Hate' 5 Times More Often Than Competitors, Study Finds
'Fox News uses 'hate' five times more often than competitors, study finds.' Study finds Fox’s usage of the word has increased over time, with a notable spike around the time that Trump’s presidency began. The Guardian, Sept. 29, 2020.
Fox News uses the word “hate” five times more often than its main competitors, according to a new study – particularly when discussing opposition to Donald Trump.
Robert Mathew Entman, professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, and Curd Knüpfer, assistant professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin, studied more than 1,000 transcripts from “the two ideologically branded channels – rightwing Fox and leftwing MSNBC” in primetime, 6pm to 10.59pm, from 1 January to 8 May this year.
“We expected to find that both of the strongly ideological networks made use of such words,” they wrote for the Conversation, “perhaps in different ways. Instead, we found that Fox used antipathy words five times more often than MSNBC. ‘Hate’ really stood out: it appeared 647 times on Fox, compared to 118 on MSNBC. “Fox usually pairs certain words alongside ‘hate’. The most notable was ‘they’ – as in, ‘they hate’.
Fox used this phrase 101 times between January and May. MSNBC used it just five times.”
A Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will moderate Tuesday’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden at in Cleveland. Trump faced a famous grilling from Wallace this summer but he is notoriously fond of Fox News’ opinion hosts, reacting to their shows and open to their advice. ~
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/29/fox-news-uses-hate-five-times-more-often-than-competitors-study-finds
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