Tucker Carlson’s Firing by Fox News
Past Present Podcast, Episode 372
In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss Tucker Carlson’s dismissal from Fox News....
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Fox News Accidentally Reveals the Horrible Truth About Republicans
An attempt to advance the Republican party line goes awry
Brian Kilmeade is co-host of Fox & Friends, the president’s favorite weekday morning show. Kilmeade is, well -- he’s not that bright. To be sure, he’s very good at advancing the party line. Sometimes, though, he gets mixed up. Wednesday morning, he tried saying something bad about the Democrats but ...
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How Billionaires Get Away With Their Big Con
The rich have been successfully chipping away at Americans’ trust in government for decades
About 75 percent of Americans trusted the federal government to “do what is right” when polled during most of the last years of the Eisenhower administration and early years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency.
In 2019, when the Pew Research Center released its most recent poll of public trust in the government, only 17 percent ...
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The Fox News-Fake News-Trump Nexus
On the link between political orientation and the inclination to believe fake news
In today’s overheated political climate, people are increasingly noting how difficult it is to convince others, who disagree, to alter their beliefs. Public discourse seems ever more compartmentalized in “silos,” where people express themselves in an “echo chamber” or “bubble” that reinforces their pre-existing biases. Contravening facts rarely get in ...
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