What the FOX Rumor Mill sells is GOSSIP!.
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
- John Lydon
Okay if you say so
Obviously what Fox Noise sells is not information (and that doesn't sell anyway). What Fox sells is emotion. That's why loyalists like you get emotionally defensive about a fricking TV channel. Because they have their hooks in you.
What Fox Sells is an alternative to the decades of Leftist Brainwashing being hammerred into the American Psyche by Socio-Fascism . The Socio-FascistElite ,and their usefulidiots, folks such as yourself rabidly foam at the mouth and vomit out Pea soup whenever Fox is mentioned - and that's why I defend it and will continue to do so. It's time Big Brother got a boot up his ass instead of the ass kissing and bootlickering from useful idiots who run around calling themselves "Liberals"
How's it Feel being a useful Idiot ? You don't like it when the vomits aimed at you -do ya ?
What a witty retort. A Gif of projected puke. And you want to see
others as "foaming at the mouth".
You've just proven my point; you're melting down here like your daughter's honor has been attacked. That's because, again, what Fox sells is emotion, and you bought it. When you have an emotional relationship with a TV channel, it should be telling you something about what's going on
psychologically.
Nobody ever made a profit disseminating the news, and Rupert Murdoch, who made his fortune on sleazy gossip tabloids, knows that as well as anyone. News is expensive. You need lots of reporters with travel expenses; you need camera crews and satellite phones and foreign news bureaus. Murdoch came in and rather than deal with all of that, plunked down a crew of angry white guys who, rather than gathering and reporting the news, would sit and pound a table in a garishly pastel-colored studio with visual shifts that go whhoooosh and a
steady stream of suggestive screen crawls, to talk
about the news that was already out. The actual news it carries is confined to dayparts that don't affect the bottom line; the character, the game face, the essence of Fox Noise (as opposed to Fox News) is completely built around emotion. All of the above are emotional hooks designed for that purpose. And in recent years they've added sexy short-skirted bimbos to join the angry white guys pounding on tables.
Basically the same thing as the sleazy gossip tabloids do, this time using political celebrities instead of movie celebs -- otherwise the same thing.
News isn't emotional. News is dry, straightforward facts of who-what-where; there's no judgment in it. That's not what Fox is there for because that doesn't sell. If you're watching straight news on NBC and the channel happens to drop off the air, you just shrug and go to ABC -- that's an unemotional relationship. If you melt down because somebody posted studies suggesting Fox Noise is noise, well that's when you have an emotional relationship. And that's what they want.
Why do they want that? Because a loyal emotional relationship keeps you coming back, and that means audience, and audience means ratings and ratings means advertising dollars. The more they can polarize you with an "us against them" mentality, the more they get to portray themselves as "us" and include you in their little club. That's a
personal relationship. And it's deliberate, and it's engineered and it's calculated. It's there to manipulate you into an emotional relationship for the same reason sugar is added to your groceries -- to get you addicted. To this end it will polarize, sensationalize, overemphasize, demonize, marginalize and ultmately capsize the news so that you're drowning in a sea of implied bullshit with them --
the TV channel -- representing your lifeboat. Like a little secret club, a grownup version of the tree house with a sign on the outside that says "No Girls". Us versus Them. Personal emotional relationship.
Television itself is by nature a hypnotic propaganda tool, nothing more, and what Fox Noise does is simply exploit that flaw as far as it can be exploited. You're being manipulated plain and simple. Ideology isn't the point; that's just the tool of the trade, used because it works as manipulation.
That's why all those studies show what they do -- because accuracy is not the objective.
Fear is the objective. Emotion sells, and no emotion sells like Fear.
Fear the climate warnings.
Fear the healthcare bills.
Fear the political party.
Fear the black man.
Fear da liburruls.
Fear the President.
Fear the women.
Fear the minorities.
Fear The Gay.
Fear the communists/socialists/whateverists. Polarize, polarize, polarize. Fear the shit out of these things and we'll be back to tell you how we're looking out for you and five more things to fear, right after these words for car insurance and Viagra. Don't change that channel, or you'll never find out what your next fear is. You will obey us.
It's entirely a
personal relationship. Notice they don't talk about poli
tics; they talk about politi
cians. Personal level. Let's not about the effects of this or that policy; let's about the personal agenda of this guy or that guy. Forget the boring revenue numbers; we're here to talk about
evil and how it's out to get you.
You're being manipulated. Your getting emotional over a TV channel tells us they're winning. Broadcast ratings don't measure agreement; they measure
attention. And Fear generates attention. It always has.
I know I've quoted these links for a long time and some might have shifted but this one still works when I click it. 
It doesn't "postulate" anything; it asks people's perceptions and correlates those perceptions to whether their primary information source is A, B, C, etc. Just like all the others.
