Good post here on the power of Fox News ability to drive the message.
Read the whole thing.
Another Successful 'Foxtober' Midterm Election is Under Way
Notice how in the weeks leading up to the election Ebola was dominating the news? And notice how quickly Ebola disappeared from the headlines after election day (11/4/14)? That’s not some sort of wild coincidence. Fox News and other right-wing media outlets decided that screaming about Ebola was the GOP’s best shot to retake the Senate, and covered the story in a way meant to suggest that anyone who wasn’t also screaming about it was trying to protect Democrats from negative coverage. Mainstream media outlets, afraid of being hit with accusations of “liberal bias,” followed Fox’s lead (and in the case of CNN, went absolutely wild with it, even inviting the author of the fictional movie Outbreak to comment on it).
In 2018, the big story was the “migrant caravan.” Sure, the caravan, like Ebola, was real; it’s just that, again, like Ebola, which killed a total of two (2) Americans, it wasn’t legitimately newsworthy. Still, Fox was able to successfully goad CNN and MSNBC into devoting significant time and energy into covering the topic. And, just like with Ebola, coverage of the “migrant caravan” essentially disappeared the second the election was over. Funny how that works!
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