The Fox News blackout of the 1/6 hearings shows that Republicans benefit from a huge propaganda apparatus that hermetically seals off the GOP electorate from damaging truths. Meanwhile, right wing disinfo pollutes bothsides MSM coverage, helping GOP more:
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"If there is one last human being in DC who clung to the idea that Fox is a center-right journalistic institution with opinion at night, this should be the end of that."
I talked to @danpfeiffer about Fox's 1/6 propaganda and how it will influence MSM:
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@danpfeiffer "Roger Ailes was a political ad maker. He had this insight that if Fox was a pseudo news organization, it would have greater influence on what other news organizations covered."
@danpfeiffer on how we got to this point. Right wing ref-gaming is central:
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@danpfeiffer An interesting exchange: The younger generation of Dems like @ChrisMurphyCT, @brianschatz and @MalloryMcMorrow all grasp the value of making noise, of having big, viral moments.
The current Dem leadership came of age in a different media universe:
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@danpfeiffer @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz @MalloryMcMorrow Finally, I asked @danpfeiffer what his answers are to both the Dems' information problem and the intra-party "wokeness" debate:
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@danpfeiffer @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz @MalloryMcMorrow Numerous news organizations are describing the coming Fox/GOP disinformation push as "counter-programming" the 1/6 hearings.
Stop doing this. It puts rank propaganda on a plane of equivalence with legitimate congressional fact finding:
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