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Conservative columnist David Frum, who was speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, blasted Fox News on Sunday for creating an “alternative knowledge system.”

“These media institutions, they started as political projects. They started as ways to offer an alternative point of view on current events. They have become an important industry and so they see the conservative world not as a set of ideas, but as a demographic and the way you appeal to a demographic is working by conflict.”

(via MoveOn, source)

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    I didn’t even realize that this was how it worked - appealing to political groups as a demographic, rather than...
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    This is a man I could easily sit and listen to and completely understand his differing view.
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    Faux: Popularity and Success through Giving Its Audience What They WANT to Hear and Believe.
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    I want to shake this guy’s hand for recognizing how absolutely batshit his own party and their “news source” has gotten.
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    Conservatives like this, I like.
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