MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Isaac Chotiner @ NewYorker.com, March 20
[....] On Monday, Brazile announced that she would be joining Fox News as a contributor, writing, in a piece on the network’s Web site, that she is “excited to join the honest and passionate debate at Fox News about our future.” She described the decision as “rooted in the belief that you cannot make progress, let alone reach compromise, without first listening to, and understanding those who disagree with you on critical issues.” The news came during a particularly fraught time for the network [....]
On Tuesday, I spoke by phone with Brazile. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed her hopes for her work on Fox News, the network’s role in fomenting hate, and why she is so frustrated with partisanship in the media [....]
Comments
Seems she's already practicing her "whataboutism".
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 3:54am
To sell her book “Hacks”, Brazile implied that Hillary stole money ( that her campaign raised) from the DNC.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/05/hacks-review-donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-democrats-donald-trump
Bernie felt slighted. It should be noted that because Sanders was criticizing Democratic Party, he did not feel obligated to raise funds for the DNC
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/donna-brazile-dnc-book/index.html
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 8:37am
Almost 80% of Fox News viewers think Trump is the best President ever.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/poll-78-of-gop-fox-news-viewers-say-trump-is-best-president-ever?ref=scroll
Good luck Donna.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 9:59am
What did Madeleine Albright say, therw's abirthday special place in hell...?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 11:33am
On a theoretical level I have no problem with a center left person taking a job at FOX. In fact theoretically it's a good thing. But I wonder if she will be allowed to speak freely or be forced to compromise her views to keep her job. Even free thinking conservatives have been forced to compromise to keep their fox news job. George Will is very conservative, thinks for himself, doesn't follow the right wing party line promulgated by most fox pundits, and makes good arguments to support his views. After one season Fox declined to renew his contract.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 4:05pm
The late Alan Colmes tried and failed
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/business/media/obituary-alan-colmes-fox-news.html
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 4:39pm
I was quite cynical at first. And was thinking about making a snarky comment about how she is going to have to do some major makeovers to fit the Fox News Babe appearance and dress code (which never fails to amaze me as being stuck in 1980's version of "sexy"--they must change into it once in the studio as no one would walk around like that in Manhattan anymore...)
But then I read the article carefully and got the real feisty attitude that was coming out of her that the interviewer meant to convey. I.E.: fuck you I am doing this because I think it's a very important thing to try and I am at the stage of my life where there's nothing left to lose and if I don't do it who will?
And then I was reminded of this recent Jane Mayer article when I went over to the New Yorker website just now:
The Making of the Fox News White House: Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
Something important changed over at Fox with Trump as president, a dangerous borderline crossed. And it's more important than ever to try to stop that development. So now I think: more power to her. Whatever she can do over there, any little thing, is good. And it's also a good sign that they are open to hiring her! That someone over there sees things getting too way out of hand as far as a propaganda machine.
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 2:59pm
Another indication that push might be coming to shove with Fox News brass over the Trump propaganda thing, getting tired of being the communication arm of the president?
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 3:07pm
So he's angry about McCain handing over the Steele Dossier
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 6:03pm
Yup, the buzz is out there that Fox may be tired of being Trump's poodle and vice versa:
Report: Hannity, Others At Fox Worried Network May Be Planning To Drop Pro-Trump Bias
By Chris Walker @ The Hill Reporter, March 20, 2019
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 3:12pm
About ten years ago I was doing some temp work next to a 21 year old male college student. He told me he watched Fox because the women news personnel were more attractive then other stations news programs.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 3:48pm
here 10 years ago already he would not have had a lot of like minded friends--the whole Fox style was dismissed as big haired bridge-and-tunnel girl at least that long ago, not considered sexy, more like: ugh, a skank. But the legacy of that style, is still out there in Kardashian world and things like "Real Housewives of Atlanta". The long nails, the big hair, the brass voices, the cleavage in daytime clothing, etc. I think major final damage to the style being considered sexy on the coasts was when the show "The Jersey Shore" was hot, and that was 10 years ago. I think even a lot of soft porn I've seen has left that world behind! It actually puzzles me. It is interesting that this look for women is still big in places like Miami, where there is a lot of non-elites people-of-color input.The only explanation I can see for Fox maintaining that "look" for women is that this is what the elderly demographic still thinks of as sexy, from the days of "Dallas" being a hit show. It does remind me of the difference between how like the Lennon sisters looked on Lawrence Welk in the late 60's when most women nationwide had already adopted a different look.
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 5:13pm
I give credence to your views but it seems to me there's more to it than that. It's not something I've paid a lot of attention to or given a lot of thought to. I was more shocked that this college male would chose his news based on how attractive the reporter was than how or why she was attractive to him.
There is something I've written briefly on before that I noticed while watching the democratic and republican conventions. Many of the democratic women at the convention had at least an initial and superficial attractiveness to me while many if not most of the republican women did not. Even many of the young and attractive republican women. The perms or at least hair spray to control the hair, the over use of make up, the traditional dress, even a kind of more controlled manner had a look that I call "plastic women." The democratic women had a looser more "sloppy" style in both dress and movement. Of course this is a totally subjective analysis but it seems to me that it's more than just age.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 6:02pm
Ann-Margret, Vegas 1968. Carol Wayne on Carson, Dolly Parton for the country folk. The old-timers never left that moment in time, big breasts, big hair.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 6:07pm
It will be interesting to see how Fox viewers respond to Trump being challenged.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 4:22pm
on Twitter there is a famous troll army of Trump supporters/fans with teen-like vocabularies and insults who famously attack the Never Trumper guys, especially Rick Wilson who is quite good at smacking them down instead of feeding them. No one knows whether they are all real or partly bots and their numbers are only so-so, they are just passionately in love with the man as a savior who can do no wrong.
I do not think they are the same demographic as Fox News viewers at all. Many media studies have shown Fox News viewers to be one of the oldest demographics around. The kind that have to be dragged to Facebook by the grandkids...Whenever I see Fox News on in a public space like a bank waiting line or medical office, I note some anecdotal proof of that: I see only very old people look at the screen on the wall and everyone under 60 is glued to the phone screen in their hand.
I do not suspect Fox News viewers intersect that well with what is left of the Trump fan club of the type who attends his rallies, either. They are out there in places like northern Minnesota where internet and cell service is poor. and Staten Island where they have to take enough liberal guff when they visit Manhattan and would like to hear their own style of lingo--bada bing style Sean Hannity-- when they are home. (Likewise in England, those still watching telly news are grannie who likes her Telly and her Murdoch gossip.)
At the same time, I also think that if Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs found Trump to be a liability audience wise, they would drop him like a hot potato.So there's that. I think it's complicated. The whole news media landscape is not just in flux but, as they say over at the liberalatarian techie sites: "disrupted" same as every other business.
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 4:59pm