Former Fox News anchor explains how network brainwashes viewers into believing conspiracy theories

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Former Fox News anchor explains how network brainwashes viewers into believing conspiracy theories
"It's gone from an opinion, which was fine, to completely devolving into non-fact-based conspiracy theories"
By Meaghan Ellis
Published January 30, 2022 4:30AM (EST)
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.


Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson offered a damning assessment of the network as she explained just how bad its spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation has become.

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Conservative primetime news anchor Tucker Carlson has been at the center of misinformation and the power of his opinion has begun to influence Republican members of Congress.

"This is the result of fake news," Carlson said. "You know, we're seeing not only the fallout from fake news during the Trump era, but what happened with the insurrection on January 6th. Now it's moving into other areas. Not just news, now it's hitting science with vaccines, and now it's into Cold War politics."

Carlson also touched on another significant topic as she shed light on the actions of her former Fox News colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. While they reportedly sent pleas to the White House for the violence to stop on Jan. 6, they still put up a united front on-air and circulated a completely different narrative about the series of events that unfolded.

"I think the bigger story coming out of that is how disingenuous it was to be sending those texts of warning while then going on the air to the American people and doing a complete injustice and disservice by saying something completely opposite," Carlson said, "and ginning up this whole reaction that it was just fine and patriotic for people to be there on January 6th."

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[durablend]

1. Gretchen Carlson: "But remember--I had *nothing* to do with it"

mhmmm

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Don't look a gift horse in the ass.

Just hold your nose and accept it for what it is, another voice rising against the Murdock news discombobulator.

[captain queeg]

2. Not a fan of hers but I'm glad to see this kind of thing coming out.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. IMO, they don't have to brainwash them. They just are good at telling them what they want to hear.

[bahboo]

6. I believe this is exactly the case....

[ificandream]

5. There are some really good books on what shit Fox does ...

One, and maybe the most focused, is "Hoax" by Brian Stelter of CNN. A lot of the information about the intertwining of Trump and Fox won't be much of a surprise since we could see it every night. But there is information in there that is very disturbing. The book builds on the evidence that Fox is nothing more than a mountain of bullshit 24 hours a day. Even the so-called liberals (mostly B- and C-level celebs) are feeding into the Fox washing machine.

Another is Gabriel Sherman's "The Loudest Voice In the Room," which was the basis for the Emmy-winning TV miniseries of the same name. Sherman discusses the rise of Roger Ailes, from "The Mike Douglas Show" to Fox and his downfall.

"Naked Launch," by Dan Cooper is a short but very interesting look at the start of the channel.

One I haven't read but would like to is "Foxocracy" by Tobin Smith. Smith, a former Fox contributor and guest anchor, who shows the formula that Fox uses to brainwash its viewers.

[Stuart G]

7. Thank You for Posting...K and R.. OUTSTANDING POST..!!!!!

[Baked Potato]

8. I remember Jon Stewart talking about her,

how such an educated woman could work at Fox.

[Hortensis]

9. Well, at least 1 out of 30 people has no conscience.

They typically feel superior to ordinary people handicapped by such things as guilt and shame. Many tend to be charismatic, and they often gravitate to work that allows them to use their special abilities to manipulate victims.

Having seen her at work, I'm willing to go to go out on a speculative limb...

Maybe one of these days she'll discuss "trolling for assassins." She was a cohost on Fox and Friends during the period when Fox, and her show in particular, joined RW radio, extremist preachers, etc, in trolling for the assassination of President Obama.

[Baked Potato]

10. Very good point... and I had forgot about that disgusting F&F time. Nt