Background
The “Fox Effect” is a topic that was introduced by David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt (along with Media Matters for America), who wrote the book entitled “The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network Into a Propaganda Machine.” The book was backed by the organization Media Matters for America, which serves as a “Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” The purpose of the book was to highlight how the President of Fox News, Roger Ailes, turned the right-leaning network into a full supporter of the Republican party. The book looks into Ailes’ career dating back to his work as a media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and how his rise in power helped him create one of the strongest media influences for the Republican Party.
The “Fox Effect” is an opinion on how the Fox News network is more of a participant in the news, rather than being a reporter of it. The book looks into how Fox News, along with political supports, created news interests in order to manipulate the general public’s opinion. The “Fox Effect” is credited in promoting the movement FNC Tea Parties, collaborating misleading videos that brought on congressional investigations and loss of funding to ACORN, and doing similar acts to Planned Parenthood. Similar evidence would also go to support the defamation of President Obama and what he tried to accomplish as President of the United States of America.
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