This is an amazing study by fomer Reagan Domestic Policy Advisor Bruce Bartlett........
How Fox News Changed American Media and PoliticalDynamics
http://chicago.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=335074111074015067105098127088104073109017024072035030106079020111120082009067091107037033035060058099112005014101025097126109062066043049061127114120007095108023029066031065122127094100086113069109102016090008028116113108087065064030119003024117&EXT=pdf&TYPE=2
After reading this report, you will be able to put threads and posts created by posters KarlRove and Markle in their proper perspective.
...Fox has now become a problem for the Republican Party because it keeps a far right base mobilized and angry, making it hard for the party to move to the center or increase its appeal, as it must do to remain electorally competitive…
...Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum perhaps put the complicated, double-edged relationship between Fox and the GOP best when he said, “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox. And this balance here has been completely reversed. The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.”...
How Fox News Changed American Media and PoliticalDynamics
http://chicago.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=335074111074015067105098127088104073109017024072035030106079020111120082009067091107037033035060058099112005014101025097126109062066043049061127114120007095108023029066031065122127094100086113069109102016090008028116113108087065064030119003024117&EXT=pdf&TYPE=2
After reading this report, you will be able to put threads and posts created by posters KarlRove and Markle in their proper perspective.
...Fox has now become a problem for the Republican Party because it keeps a far right base mobilized and angry, making it hard for the party to move to the center or increase its appeal, as it must do to remain electorally competitive…
...Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum perhaps put the complicated, double-edged relationship between Fox and the GOP best when he said, “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox. And this balance here has been completely reversed. The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.”...