Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running - 3,181 times

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Source: The Guardian

Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running – 3,181 times

• Democrat receives 3,181 mentions on Fox News and Fox Business
• Figures suggest media obsession with congresswoman

David Smith in Washington
Fri 12 Apr 2019 19.42 BST Last modified on Fri 12 Apr 2019 20.09 BST

Fox channels have mentioned the US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 consecutive days, a study has found.

The 29-year-old liberal star received at least 3,181 mentions in six weeks from Fox News or its sister Fox Business, according to research by Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit media watchdog.

The finding will reinforce perceptions that Fox, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is obsessed by Ocasio-Cortez, portraying her as a radical socialist who threatens the American way of life.

She tweeted in response on Friday: “Fox News brought me up 3,000+ times in *6 weeks.* That’s how hard they’re fighting against dignified healthcare, wages, & justice for all; and turning their firepower on the youngest Congresswoman in history to do it. Too bad for them, cause we don’t flinch. #ForThePeople.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/fox-mentions-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-42-days-running

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Related: Six weeks of Fox's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez obsession: "Totalitarian," "ignorant," "scary," and waging a "war on cows" (Media Matters for America)

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[NewDayOranges]

1. Republican and conservative operatives are very good at identifying

up and coming Dems of the future and so they are pre-emptively scuffing up the images of AOC, Cong Ilhan Omar and Cong Tlaib and branding these women with the "angry", "looney" and "divisive" tags...

We saw how well 17 years of republicans and conservatives branding Hillary Clinton as "divisive" worked in 2008 and 2016, didn't we?

The republican smear machine job on AOC, Cong Omar and Cong Tlaib doesn't work on us but for Dems who don't spend a lot of time on DU (about 95% of Dems) their constant exposure on Fox News and other right-wing outlets damages their images among left-leaning voters as well...

[sharedvalues]

3. EXACTLY. Same with Liz Warren.

Then we all call them “unelectable”

F’ing bulls**t.
The problem in America is Fox and other rightwing propaganda.

[NewDayOranges]

4. I believe that the real problem is that there is

No counter argument from or voice for the left...

[sharedvalues]

5. Both.

The rightwing propaganda machine is a huge problem.
Also high profile Dems could do more.
But they have no Fox to amplify them and lie about their opponents.

[gopiscrap]

6. welcome to DU

[Vacuous Virgina]

2. AOC Rocks!

I wish I had one billionth of her courage & brains 😊😊😊