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Fox News Propaganda Analysis

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Fox News is often seen by many as the standard for news media. Due to this fact Fox is constantly under fire and being accused of all sorts of things. Propaganda is a tittle Fox has seemed to hold for various reasons. Fox falls into the class of propaganda due to its use of power as a media outlet to push and persuade the minds of others to side with the views and opinions that Fox holds itself.
The criteria held for being defined as propaganda, according to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is that the from of communication must be "ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further ones cause or damage an opposing". Based on this we can define Fox News as propaganda. There are many forms of news as well as many forms of …show more content…

(historians.org) When we turn to our video example we are presented with a speech of Obama discussing jobs in America, instead of neutral images being shown such as those American with jobs or the systems set up to try and help Americans find jobs. We are presented with clear negative visuals. Homeless are shown on the streets as well as unemployment lines are presented. Fox could have used neutral images for this section however choose to use negative footage to push their views that Obama is not doing his job. Again pushing Foxes views without attempting to leave any room for challenge fits Fox into our definition of propaganda. Despite no words being used in this section the visuals show us what Fox would like us to see without providing the whole …show more content…

The article is embedded with fallacies throughout turning the article into pure propaganda. The initial statement in the article makes a claim that even a normal everyday person can see the "tragic" mistake made by the supreme court. This itself is a hasty generalization, to make the claim that everyone can see this as a mistake is our first fallacy present in our article. Secondly we are presented with a statement saying "Expect these suits to accelerate exponentially". The statement refers to lawsuits concerning businesses turning down service to those of gay or lesbian sexual orientation. This statement is a slippery slope fallacy due to it claiming something dire will happen without any actual evidence supporting

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