The upshot, Pomerantsev noted, is a constructed world that is above all “very, very coherent.”, Earlier this summer, Tucker Carlson opined that Black Lives Matter is “not about Black lives” but about “left-wing mobs” who are trying to “cancel your rights.” He warned viewers to “remember that when they come for you.” Some advertisers left; Carlson stayed on the air. Jordan had attacked Democrats for the recent emergence of the 'defund police' movement. It told its viewers not to focus on the people who have died, or the many more who might, but instead to focus on themselves: Your freedom. Here was Fox’s defining monomyth—the you and the they, locked in unending combat—brought to party politics’ biggest stage.

Fox News Media, introduced in early 2019, includes Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox News Digital, Fox News Audio and Fox News International. The Fox host Pete Hegseth: “I feel like the more I learn about this, the less there is to worry about.” The host Jeanine Pirro: “If you listen to the mainstream media, it's time to buy the family burial plot.” The language mocked, and minimized. 'It is pure insanity to defund the police,' Jordan said in his opening statement. The network turned its translations of the world into a business model. You might have found yourself wondering why, in the midst of a global pandemic that had sickened millions of Americans and claimed the lives of more than 170,000, the RNC was warning about the threats of “cosmopolitan elites.” You might also have wondered why, during the nation’s long-overdue racial-justice reckoning, the RNC gave airtime to a couple who brandished guns at peaceful protesters—or why, during an economic emergency that has cost millions of Americans their livelihoods, a teenager was trotted out to talk about cancel culture (“being canceled, as in annulled, as in revoked, as in made void”).
Peter Pomerantsev, the author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, points out how cannily Fox employs the metaphor of the family in its packaging of its opinion shows: Bill O’Reilly, Pomerantsev told me, was for a long time the network’s cynical uncle. Fox has two pronouns, you and they, and one tone: indignation. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

When cruelty is refigured as “free speech,” and when expertise becomes condescension—and when compassion is weakness and facts are “claims” and incuriosity is liberty and climate change is a con and a plague is a hoax—the new lexicon leaps off the screen. Read: Sean Hannity is Trump’s shadow press secretary, “For the past five years, I’ve had a front row seat to the Trumpification of Fox and the Foxification of America,” Brian Stelter writes in his new book, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth. Fox really does function, Stelter suggests, as Trump’s presidential daily briefing.

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Similar to its competitors, much of the scheduled programming is focusing on straight news reporting. “Some even said the place that they worked, that they cashed paychecks from, had become dangerous to democracy.” A well-known commentator on the network tells Stelter: “They are lying about things we are seeing with our own eyes.” An anchor laments that “we surrendered to Trump.