MediaMatters summary of the Fox News' product: The Tea Party "movement"

[JohnWxy]

while some networks have broadcast "reality tv" shows, which are supposed to simulate the real world, Fox Network has done them all one better - Fox deserves much of the credit for practically creating, through tireless promotion, the simulated grass roots "movement" known as the Tea Party.


http://mediamatters.org/reports/200904080025


Fox News has frequently aired segments encouraging viewers to get involved with "tea party" protests across the country, which the channel has often described as primarily a response to President Obama's fiscal policies. Specifically, Fox News has in dozens of instances provided attendance and organizing information for future protests, such as protest dates, locations and website URLs. Fox News websites have also posted information and publicity material for protests. Fox News hosts have repeatedly encouraged viewers to join them at several April 15 protests that they are attending and covering; during the April 6 edition of Glenn Beck, on-screen text characterized these events as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties." Tea-party organizers have used the planned attendance of the Fox News hosts to promote their protests. Fox News has also aired numerous interviews with protest organizers. Moreover, Fox News contributors are listed as "Tea Party Sponsor(s)" on TaxDayTeaParty.com. Media Matters for America has compiled the following analysis of Fox News' promotion of the tea-party protests. (Most transcripts are taken from the Nexis database.)
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NOTE: 63% of those who consider themselves TEa-partiers get "the majority of their political and current events news on television from the Fox News"

AND: "An overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters, 84 percent, say the views of the Tea Party movement reflect the views of most Americans. But Americans overall disagree: Just 25 percent say the Tea Party movement reflects their beliefs{/b]

Tea Partiers think their views represent the majority of Americans... and most of them get their news from Faux News.

FOX has created their own CULT!



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002529-503544.html


Sixty-three percent say they get the majority of their political and current events news on television from the Fox News Channel, compared to 23 percent of Americans overall. Forty-seven percent say television is their main source of Tea Party information, the top source; another 24 percent say they get Tea Party information from the internet.

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An overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters, 84 percent, say the views of the Tea Party movement reflect the views of most Americans. But Americans overall disagree: Just 25 percent say the Tea Party movement reflects their beliefs..


Fifty-nine percent of Tea Party supporters have a favorable impression of Glenn Beck. Nearly as many, 57 percent, have a favorable impression of former President George W. Bush, despite his role in raising the deficit and overseeing TARP bailout of the financial sector.
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Clearly, these people occupy an alternate universe... one husbanded by the Fox 'News' organization.

Fox has taken the concept of the Big Lie and raised it to scope never even imagined by Hitler or Goebbels. A bunch of idiots running around not making any kind of rational arguments, parroting patent non sequiturs and implictly contradictory propositions does not constitute a movement. This can only be regarded as a cult.