The team at https://t.co/cfknRk1RN3, including @NateSilver538, invited me to trade views with them how we got the Fox News we have today. (One thing I asked them, "Do you think Fox and MSNBC are fundamentally similar, or fundamentally unlike each other?") https://t.co/2iSRg3Yt07— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 6, 2019
Blair Levin, at that time the chief of staff at the F.C.C. and now a fellow at the Brookings Institution, says, “Fox’s great insight wasn’t necessarily that there was a great desire for a conservative point of view.” More erudite conservatives, he says, such as William F. Buckley, Jr., and Bill Kristol, couldn’t have succeeded as Fox has. Levin observes, “The genius was seeing that there’s an attraction to fear-based, anger-based politics that has to do with class and race.”
(The irony is the discussion at fivethirtyeight.com references the Jane Mayer article at the New Yorker, without ever quoting it.)
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