Fox News appalling past 72 hours, analyzed
A data analysis shows how Fox News spun the Mueller indictment and Florida shooting into a defense of the president.
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/19/17027456/fox-news-mueller-indictment-trump
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On Friday, FBI special counsel Robert Mueller filed the first charges against Russians in his investigation. The indictment details how a small group of Russian internet trolls tried to leverage America’s deep ideological divide to interfere with “political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.”
It doesn’t say whether the Trump campaign knew about this effort, or that it changed the election results. Rather, it methodically laid out a story of how Russians influenced American politics.
But on Fox News, there was a different story crafted over the weekend.
It’s a familiar one, which we saw most recently as Fox News pushed the Nunes memo conspiracy: It’s the narrative that the Mueller investigation is flawed because the FBI is flawed. But this time, the network managed to leverage a completely unrelated tragedy to bolster this narrative; it tied in the failure of the FBI in reacting to warnings about the Florida mass shooter, who killed at least 17 people, and used that to challenge the credibility of the Mueller investigation.
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