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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMedia Matters Prez: Talk Radio As GOP Disinformation Engine
Tucker Carlson and Fox are organizing power on what used to be considered the fringes of the right wing, Angelo Carusone said.On the Last Word Wednesday night, Jonathan Capehart had Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, to talk about the reach of conservative media.
"I mean, its bigger than anything I think most people realize. Talk radio, for example, just take Sean Hannity. He's got 15 million listeners. And that's one show and thats just talk radio," Carusone said.
"People will focus on television, and Fox News, and Facebook, but the reality is talk radio remains the get-out-the-vote engine, the engine of disinformation and in many ways, it has this downstream effect because there is a local component to it, it can really influence and distort the local politics, which ultimately then translates both up and nationally."
"But that is still mainstream conservative media. What's happening outside of our view?" Capehart asked.
"I think the simplest way to think about whats happening is that the media the right-wing media as a whole, the fever swamps, have really been the fulcrum and the pivot point here. And the rest of the Republican Party, and the right wing at-large, what they've decided to do in these last couple years that I think help explain that phenomenon that you pointed out with Tucker Carlson and Fox, is that they're organizing power on what used to be considered the fringes," Carusone said.
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Media Matters Prez: Talk Radio As GOP Disinformation Engine (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Jan 2022
OP
This is a point I've tried to make a number of times here - that talk radio
highplainsdem
Jan 2022
#2
EarlG
(21,947 posts)1. Other media should stop referring to it as "conservative media"
It's "insurrectionist media."
highplainsdem
(48,978 posts)2. This is a point I've tried to make a number of times here - that talk radio
is a huge threat, both more pervasive and more extreme than RW television and print media.
jimfields33
(15,802 posts)3. Problem is the Democratic Party knows this but hasn't attempted to buy
Any radio stations to counter. How can you complain if no effort is made?
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)4. It will take mega rich Democratic leaning people to start buying up media markets......
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)5. I have long had MediaMatters bookmarked...solid reporting on GOP misinformation in the media
but I can only stand so much GOP bullshit before I want to drink bleach.
If I had to differ with the authors on anything, I would contend that hate radio became 'mainstream' a long time ago...it's been on Armed Forced Radio and Television Network for decades.