There seems to be a separation between Fox News Right Wingers and Right Wingers. Brainwashing weak minds isn't that hard, just ask the Easter Bunny.
How in 2015 is Fox News still taken seriously?
Their entire structure is based on ONE MAN, Rupert Murdoch, who isn't even American. He holds morning meetings to tell his "anchors" what to say and they say it. Then the people convinced Fox News is legit repeat it like parrots. Isn't THAT what the Right Wing fears most? One man with too much CONTROL?!
The Fox News political followers are the easiest to debate with but they always think they win. All they do is insult and they think they won a political debate. How and why is that? The brainwash.
One of the very basic steps of making a cult is not to allow outside information. Because if the people learn outside of that structure, they might leave. I've openly heard Fox News discuss the topic "How long have you went without listening to Obama talk". Not that Obama is Leftist, but how is that informing yourself at all? Why was it praised for the person who went 6 months without hearing something Obama said? How does that make you smart? It doesn't, it's just patting the cult brainwashed on the back.
As opposed to Obama telling the MSM what they can say?
Obama hates Fox because he can't tell them what to talk about.
The government and the Media are two completely different entities. The only control the government has over the media is through the FCC and that only extends as far as the networks usign obscene language or having extreme nudity on channels that kids watch, but they cant censor the content of the media, what the media believes. In terms of newspaper the government used to be able to block the release of a paper if it was going to promote riots , but now it can only stop newspapers from being released if they fear imminent lawlessness or danger because of that. For example, the government cant stop a KKK newspaper from circulating if it says black people are dirty, but it can if it says Everyone go out in two days and kill all black people since that presents a threat of imminent lawlessness.
But the Government cannot tell the media you cant criticize so and so. John Adams tried it under the Alien and Sedition act and it failed miserably and was removed from the law books because it was so socialistic. The media can criticize whoever it wants as long as it is based on factual information or it will be defamation in the form of either slander or libel.