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FOX

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FOX

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FOX is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 09, 2021 and December 29, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “ask conservatives and it’s dominated by FOX (47%)”; “They conspicuously hate NASCAR, wrestling, football, ‘fast food’, SUVs, FOX, guns, the South, evangelicals”; “FOX helped spread the story that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9-11 and had WMDs”. It most often appears alongside Democrats, Trump, Biden.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: February 09, 2021
  • Last seen: December 29, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Book Review: Why We're Polarized
February 09, 2021 · Original source
Klein calls this "the Democratic party more successfully resisting polarization", and thinks of this as related to structural differences between the two parties. He says that the Republican Party represents the modal American on various characteristics, eg Christian (the most common religion), white (the most common race), straight (the most common sexual orientation), etc, whereas the Democrats represent everyone else (eg Muslims, Jews, atheists, and every minority religion; blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and every minority race; etc). That means the Republicans are more ideologically uniform - Christians are genuinely similar to other Christians, but Jews are only superficially similar to Muslims by virtue of their non-Christianness. That means ideology can't really capture the Democratic Party in the same way it captures the Republican Party. One point kind of in support of this - ask Democrats their favorite news source, and you get a long tail of stuff (most popular is CNN at 15%, then NPR at 13%, and so on). But ask conservatives and it's dominated by FOX (47%). Does this lack of news-source diversity reflect a lack of ideological diversity? Could be.
A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word "Class"
February 25, 2021 · Original source
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Bounded Distrust
January 26, 2022 · Original source
Suppose you're a liberal who doesn't trust FOX News. One day you're at the airport, waiting for a plane, ambiently watching the TV at the gate. It's FOX News, and they're saying that a mass shooter just shot twenty people in Yankee Stadium. There’s live footage from the stadium with lots of people running and screaming.
I'm a liberal who doesn't trust FOX News, and sure, I believe it. The level on which FOX News is bad isn't the level where they invent mass shootings that never happened. They wouldn't use deepfakes or staged actors to fake something and then call it "live footage". That would go way beyond anything FOX had done before. Liberals might say things like "You can't trust FOX News on anything, they are 100% total liars", but realistically we still trust them quite a lot on stuff like this.
A conservative might end up in the same position vis-a-vis the Washington Post as our hypothetical liberal and FOX News. They know it’s a biased source that often lies to them, but how often?
Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About The Media Very Rarely Lying
December 29, 2022 · Original source
I Googled “Trump fraudulent election”, and the first story that came up supporting the idea that the Democrats stole the 2020 election was Fox News’ Senator Rand Paul Claims Statistical Fraud In States Where Trump Lost.
Inline links: Senator Rand Paul Claims Statistical Fraud In States Where Trump Lost