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Jane Mayer's tour de force on Fox News concludes by noting that the network gives President Trump a unique propaganda megaphone to help him avoid the consequences of investigations newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
More on this point from @ThePlumLineGS, who points out that Fox gives Trump the advantage that Nixon lacked. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
This isn't incidental -- after Watergate, conservatives blamed the media for Nixon's fall. Fox founder Roger Ailes had been a Nixon aide.
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