Foxocracy : inside the network's playbook of tribal warfare

Foxocracy Inside the network's playbook of tribal warfare

Tobin Smith, 1957-

Book - 2019

Fox News did not start America's culture war, but they have the manipulative and destructive genius to exploit it. Smith takes readers behind the scenes of the actual production of the "Fair and Balanced" opinion pieces and panel segments that feed a ravenous right-wing audience. He exposes and diagrams the pages within the Fox News playbook that the liberal and progressive candidates will be fighting against in 2020. Smith shows that Fox manipulates viewer's right-wing instincts to addict them, to activate a hatred toward partisan enemies and to hook them on feelings of intellectual and cultural superiority.

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Subjects
Fox News.
Television and politics > United States.
Television broadcasting of news > Objectivity > United States.
Published
New York, NY : Diversion Books 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Tobin Smith, 1957- (author)
Edition
First Diversion books edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
256 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781635766615
  • My important message for self-identified conservative or "deplorable" readers
  • Introduction: FNC's rigged opinion-segment-scam: confessions of a Fox News hit man
  • How did the Fox News tribal identity porn playbook become so powerful?
  • How I broke the code on the rest of FNC's tribal identity pron conspiracy
  • In America, politics are tribal... period
  • My road to Fox News enlightenment 200-2018
  • Why the emotional impact of Fox News is ten times more powerful than conservative radio
  • How the Fox New 'Fair and Balanced" tribal warfare playbook works
  • A few key stories to illustrate the playbook
  • Your eyes do not lie: Fox news is good old soft-core sex porn too
  • More Fox News production lessons learned
  • Why Fox News's white tribal superiority shtick is so incredibly powerful
  • The incredible power of weaponized visceral threat and fear
  • The untold truth about tribal social identity porn
  • The two superpowers of Fox News
  • How Fox News became a significant branch of the 94-million-strong Evangelical Church
  • The facts about Fox News TV addiction
  • What then is the only logical conclusion about the power, intent, and pathologies of Fox News's tribal warfare playbook in 2019?
  • Afterword: America is better than this: It's time for the Fox News reckoning to fight back against commercial tribalized partisanship.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A former Fox News contributor exposes tactics that the network uses to distort the truth and keep viewers hookedand how the network became "a 24/7 Donald Trump infomercial."Smith (Billion Dollar Green: Profit From the Eco Revolution, 2008, etc.), a financial analyst who contributed to the network from 2000 to 2013, may be too optimistic when he writes that Republicans will "learn to love"or at least toleratethis relentlessly unflattering portrait of Fox News. Few right-leaning viewers will warm up to his report on what chairman Roger Ailes said when asked about his "target audience": "Look at meI am the audience. White, fat, balding, age 55-to-dead. I'm a Red State Midwest conservative guy sitting at home in his favorite chair with a remote control surgically attached to his hand." Even fewer conservatives may buy Smith's argument that Fox News typically tries to frighten them with "white tribal identity porn" and then offer hope that they can defeat the "liberals/libtards/socialists" out to get them. However, if this book isn't likely to cause the mass defections from The Sean Hannity Show or The Ingraham Angle that he'd like, it offers a few eye-opening details. Are the "opinion-debate" segments rigged? Yes, producers try to pit a "milquetoast" liberal against a stronger conservative. Is it a coincidence that female hosts look "so hot"? No, Ailes required some to wear push-up bras. Given such tactics, how can Fox News attract self-respecting guests? A "paid contributor plebe" made $500 per appearance and "went to a fixed $5,000 per week" after a certain point, writes the author. As a "liberal Fox News piata," Juan Williams earned $2 million per year for about a half-hour of work per week. "I'd take a beating every day for $20,000 a week at 35 minutes of cumulative weekly airtime," writes Smith. "Wouldn't you?" Whether they agree or disagree with his book, most readers will give him a few points for honesty.An erstwhile insider's broadside against Fox News with some revealing tittle-tattle. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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