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babylonsister

(171,094 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 09:30 PM Feb 2012

Well lookee here. Media Matters wrote a book about Fox. Maybe

this has something to do with faux being on the war path?

http://action.mediamatters.org/fox_effect

The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine

This is not your standard media criticism book -- it’s the definitive answer to every cousin, brother-in-law or neighbor who ever told you that Fox was their go-to place for news. From tracing the career of Fox News founder Roger Ailes as he learned to manipulate racial politics while working on the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, to visiting a cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean where a senior Fox News executive admitted to telling Fox News viewers that Barack Obama was a socialist even though he did not believe the charge to be true, The Fox Effect dismantles once and for all the notion that there’s any genuine meaning behind the network’s “fair & balanced” slogan.

You can pre-order your copy of The Fox Effect at:

* Amazon: http://amzn.to/FoxEffect
* Barnes and Noble: http://mm4a.org/BarnesAndNoble_FoxEffect
* Indie Bound: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307279583
* Ebook format available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Google.


Check out the trailer for the book at link~

Using leaked internal emails and Roger Ailes’ own writings, including a never-before-seen private letter, there has never been a more compelling summation of Fox’s dangerous and destructive role in our democracy. The Fox Effect offers new insights into Fox News and powerfully describes the harmful consequences of this political operation masquerading as a news network. You won’t be able to put it down.
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Well lookee here. Media Matters wrote a book about Fox. Maybe (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2012 OP
a "political operation masquerading as a news network" Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #1
K&R! Omaha Steve Feb 2012 #2
Preaching to the choir. Atman Feb 2012 #3
I bet this would make a great birthday/X-mas/Easter/Memorial Day/Independence Day/Thanksgiving! gift babylonsister Feb 2012 #5
+1,000! Word! n/t Surya Gayatri Feb 2012 #8
Kick and Rec Kingofalldems Feb 2012 #4
Thanks! I put it on pre-order at Amazon. nt Speck Tater Feb 2012 #6
LOVE IT!!! babylonsister Feb 2012 #7

Atman

(31,464 posts)
3. Preaching to the choir.
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 09:37 PM
Feb 2012

The people who need to read this book would never touch it. They look at MM the way sane people look at Fox: just a propaganda machine. So those brother in laws and rw family members won't ever get a word of this.

babylonsister

(171,094 posts)
5. I bet this would make a great birthday/X-mas/Easter/Memorial Day/Independence Day/Thanksgiving! gift
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 09:51 PM
Feb 2012

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