Propaganda Techniques Used By Fox News

This article counts several ways of how the media use fear and how it effects the people. The article Barry Glassner made, Narrative Techniques of Fear Mongering, was made back in the early 2000s. what this article talks about is how “fear mongers deploy narrative techniques to normalize what are actually errors in reasoning and the most common of these consists in the christening of isolated incidents as trends” (Barry Glassner). Essentially he talks about how the media use some big scare to brain wash use people to be twice as scared of situations that could happen in the futre.

FOX NEWS’s credibility has even hit a “record low”. In a public policy poll in 2013 it states,”Fox News has hit a record low in the four years that we’ve been doing this poll. 41%of voters trust it to the 46% who do not. To put those numbers into some perspective the first we did this poll, in 2010, 49% of voters trusted it to 37% who did not”. FOX NEWS’s use of “strong-loaded” words and publishing of misleading reports, people tend to view them as conservative.

In her essay, “Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled”, author Donna Woolfolk Cross explains the different types of propaganda and how it is used in the United States. The essay was first published in Speaking of Words: A Language Reader (1977). Cross defines propaganda as “simply a means of persuasion and so it can be put to work for good causes as well as bad” (247). In her article she discusses how propaganda works and explains how propaganda is used with thirteen different devices to manipulate people’s thoughts, opinions, and ideas. She uses this essay as an informative piece, giving advice on how not to be manipulated by propaganda.

According to Bruce Barlett, “Many conservatives live in a bubble where they watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people. When they go onto the Internet, they look at conservative websites like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily. And so, they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And that’s brainwashing.” Who is brainwashing whom?

I don't think it was an accident that fear came up as much as it did, I. think that this was meant to purposely rile up ignorant voters who don't realize they’re being manipulated. Most people aren't all that educated about logical fallacies and propaganda despite thinking that they do. In fact this misinformation may make them more susceptible.

In the article “GOP-Fox Circus Act”, Reed Richardson argues that although both the GOP and Fox have conservative political values, they are ultimately harmful to each other’s agendas because of their differing political goals. Both organizations are lacking popularity in recent years so they are struggling to find new ways to gain an audience. The GOP wants to find a way to get their ideas to a wide variety of people, whereas Fox is promoting more liberal views to increase the ratings of their programs. On one hand, the GOP’s reputation is hurt by the inaccuracy of Fox’s reporting. On the other hand, Fox is tied down by the conservative views of the GOP, thus restraining Fox from gaining a larger audience. Journalist Reed Richardson wrote this article for The National, a liberal newspaper, in 2013, so the events and issues that he is speaking of are still relevant to this day. Due to the differences of political views between the author and the subject matter, there is plenty of room for biased statements and opinions. Does Richardson provide enough evidence of the harmful effects of the Fox and GOP relationship? Richardson clearly and meticulously establishes the problems that both organizations face in the pursuit of their political goals with the use of statistics, reliable sources, and thorough evaluation of events; however Richardson constantly provides the reader with a biased argument when discussing the current state of Fox.

When you turn on your tv in the morning, you see news, advertisements, and shows- all of them manipulate you mentally, and without you fully knowing. In many ancient and modern civilizations, people were- and are- driven by social standards and propaganda. The most effective type of manipulation that the party uses is mental manipulation.

This sensationalizing creates a bias and spreads non-factual propaganda throughout the population. When issues

The last and final difficult conversation was a constructive and mind opening experience on the premise of watching and receiving news. During this conversation, my group watched 20 minutes of both MSNBC and Fox News and from there we collectively discussed it. Our first showing was watching Fox News and for me personally it felt like I was watching the tabloids or some might say a reality show. The reasoning behind my viewpoint of it was of them, the newscaster, talking for a like a good 10 minutes about donuts and their relationship between the struggle of the acting directors of Mike Mulvaney and Leandra English of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In addition, the newscasters are still reporting about President Trump’s comment

Consumers now have access to more information than in any other point in history, and are being subjected to partisan news on a larger scale than ever before. Partisan news outlets, such as Fox News and MSNBC tailor their broadcasts to appeal to the confirmation bias of their target audiences. Each network not only chooses which stories to run based on the interest of their target demographic, but also frames the facts in a way that leads consumers to believe that their own beliefs, however factual, are correct, which aligns with a scientific principle known as confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency for people to seek out information that aligns with their beliefs,

Everything changed after the terrorist attack in 2001, making most of the American public scared of future terrorist attacks increasing their negative thinking toward immigration. After that horrible day, the government started making changes to their immigration policies, therefore creating awareness of immigrants. These biased thoughts about immigration create concern and angst towards these groups, which lead to prejudices. The media also likes to use realistic threats toward the American people including realistic threats to one’s health, including physical harm or loss of resources. Including immigrants in American society would also threaten the beliefs, values, and ways of life according to the media. Another frame used is one of intergroup anxiety, making society afraid to be rejected by the out group, making American citizens feel more senses of nationalism, decreasing their openness towards immigrants. Political conservatism is a major factor that impacts the way these threats are perceived, creating fear and anxiety. According to Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway, “Political Conservatism is associated with motivational concerns related to the psychological management of uncertainty and fear” (asap) and it is backed up by a set of motives such as intolerance of ambiguity, need for order, structure, and closure. Political conservatism creates conservative newspapers that are more likely to frame the immigration problem in terms of threats towards the American

The apparent goal of some American news media - particularly cable news shows and talk radio- is to “stimulate” a problem. According to one news source, “What works in cable television news is not an objective analysis of the day’s events but hard-nosed, unstinting advocacy of a specific point of view on a sizzling-hot topic”. Although individuals may turn on the television to get information on current events and issues, they are likely to get the station’s detailed, bias, perspective on it instead. One instance where this has occurred is on the Bill O’Reilly Show, which airs on fox.

Fox News is an American cable news program which began in 1996. The founding president of Fox News Channel was Roger Ailes. Roger Ailes excelled in areas of political consulting and producing American television. Fox News started off being one of the smallest news broadcast with a small budget and is now serving over 90 million homes throughout America. Fox News is now the number one in the realm of cable news broadcasting. They bring political news coverage which allows all its viewers to keep updated on important issues that affects us all. Fox News has always been a trusted programming. With the allegations of defamation, sexual harassment, racial discrimination many viewers have questioned their support of Fox News.

Researches performed over the years have indicated that media methods such as agenda-setting, priming, and framing are important factors in influencing and shaping of public opinion.

Brainwashing and Mind Control are “best thought of as a series of techniques that are used over time to shape a person’s perception, cognition, emotions, decision making and behavior to such an extent that they have lost their freedom of choice” (Mind Control Today). These techniques, once in existence within authoritarian and totalitarian governments, are increasingly being practiced by advertising companies and mass media. There are extensive similarities among the political and economic standards that cause negative impacts on society, as a result of adopting these mind control tactics. As Malcom X pointed out, “The media is the most powerful entity on earth, because they control the minds of the masses”.