For one thing, to believe Trump is to believe anything in the Times that disagrees with his twisted view of reality is “fake news.”įor the record, Edison Research, the source cited by OAN for the misinformation, says it created no such analysis as the one cited on the channel as the basis for its report. But the kind of people who believe Trump, follow his tweets and stormed the Capitol on his behalf, probably aren’t reading the stories about media fact-checking in the New York Times. The bogus report was knocked down by the New York Times and other mainstream news and fact-checking outlets. The essence of that false report, citing Trump votes that allegedly may have been deleted and switched, was then retweeted by the president, citing OAN as his source and feeding it to his 88.7 million followers. The right-wing cable channels are the ones to which Trump has consistently directed his followers ― the people who smashed windows, broke into the Capitol and temporarily shut down Congress Wednesday. Some viewers spend all day tuned to one channel and come to think of the hosts and anchors as friends or family. Cable news channels tell their viewers what’s important and how they should think about it. But cable TV more than any other single realm of media sets the agenda for the nation and many of the groups within it. Those who don’t watch Fox News, Newsmax or One America News Network might not think what happens on those channels matters in the greater scheme of American life. And the implications of that on the kind of information we get from television news could be enormous ― more journalism, less propaganda. Just as President Donald Trump fractured and debased the Republican Party with his anger, lies and conspiracy theories about the November election, he has done the same to right-wing cable TV the last few months.
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