I'm old enough to remember when people laughed at the launch of Fox News in the US.
In two decades it transformed the American political and media landscape and laid the ground for Trump. And we're not laughing now.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In two decades it transformed the American political and media landscape and laid the ground for Trump. And we're not laughing now.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Even by 2001, five years after its launch, the relentlessly building influence of Fox News could be felt.
It was already driving the news agenda, whipping people into into a nationalist fervour. Everyone else had to compete. It pulled the entire media spectrum to the right.
It was already driving the news agenda, whipping people into into a nationalist fervour. Everyone else had to compete. It pulled the entire media spectrum to the right.
True for both Fox & GB News: "It is the natural extension of the increasing popularity of a sort of conservative grievance politics, more concerned about what pictures students have on their walls than how the economy works or the outcomes of public policy..."
"...It is presented as an institution built in exile, forced out from a mainstream, but the reality is that its politics is so popular and handsomely backed by funders that it has outgrown its space in the mainstream broadcast world."
'GBNews is planted in soil thats already been tilled by rightwing press. In power is a government only too happy to nourish culture-war confections, giving stamp of legitimacy. The audience will be slowly radicalised, helping to push post-Brexit England even further to the right'
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