he probably grew up watching mostly fox, or had been since retiring. ive been reading on some posts on subs how thier children restrict thier parents fox, newsmax consumption because they are paying for cable. conservatives watch things that confirms thier biases and fears.
He was a contingency engineer during the Apollo missions. FOX News wasn’t around yet, but he was definitely a Reagan/Bush Republican and believed the welfare queen / DEA rhetoric.
Once FOX News pivoted from fair and balanced conservative news-casting to outright false propaganda, he absolutely got worse.
The weird thing is as a kid he taught me about news literacy, that you have to distill the facts of a story from multiple sources in order to see the bias of the news agency, and this was during a time that news media all came from big agencies that were motivated by profit. We didn’t yet have the independent news revolution that came with the internet.
I suspect now, FOX News is all he watches, since he sometimes leaks their talking points to me in conversations when they’re not appropriate. (Cult identity signalling. It’s a thing.)
he probably grew up watching mostly fox, or had been since retiring. ive been reading on some posts on subs how thier children restrict thier parents fox, newsmax consumption because they are paying for cable. conservatives watch things that confirms thier biases and fears.
He was a contingency engineer during the Apollo missions. FOX News wasn’t around yet, but he was definitely a Reagan/Bush Republican and believed the welfare queen / DEA rhetoric.
Once FOX News pivoted from fair and balanced conservative news-casting to outright false propaganda, he absolutely got worse.
The weird thing is as a kid he taught me about news literacy, that you have to distill the facts of a story from multiple sources in order to see the bias of the news agency, and this was during a time that news media all came from big agencies that were motivated by profit. We didn’t yet have the independent news revolution that came with the internet.
I suspect now, FOX News is all he watches, since he sometimes leaks their talking points to me in conversations when they’re not appropriate. (Cult identity signalling. It’s a thing.)
forgot reagan was the “pre-fox” due to nixon before fox became a thing.
Yeah, Reagan eliminated Fairness Doctrine, which opened the gate for far-right propaganda. Rush Limbaugh and his ilk led the way.