It’s outright nefarious how Fox News carefully manages their viewers’ human empathy to evil ends.
For example: When democrats or leftists propose government that helps oppressed people or the poor, objectively good things, Fox will hammer on it being an infringement of freedom, brow-beating viewers with pseudo-intellectualism to shut down any moral objections. At the same time, when we have Trump being the absolute worst human in existence and doing awful things to viewers’ literal neighbors or even families, Fox will distract with this missing old lady story (Guthrie?) which is a wholly worthless subject of national attention, but expresses their viewers’ remaining empathy and makes the viewers feel like “good” people.
On net, the viewers feel simulated on both “intellectual” and “emotional” levels, but it’s perversely always to lead them to contravene their instincts to be good people.
It’s outright nefarious how Fox News carefully manages their viewers’ human empathy to evil ends.
For example: When democrats or leftists propose government that helps oppressed people or the poor, objectively good things, Fox will hammer on it being an infringement of freedom, brow-beating viewers with pseudo-intellectualism to shut down any moral objections. At the same time, when we have Trump being the absolute worst human in existence and doing awful things to viewers’ literal neighbors or even families, Fox will distract with this missing old lady story (Guthrie?) which is a wholly worthless subject of national attention, but expresses their viewers’ remaining empathy and makes the viewers feel like “good” people.
On net, the viewers feel simulated on both “intellectual” and “emotional” levels, but it’s perversely always to lead them to contravene their instincts to be good people.