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=====Why Fox News was created===== | |||
[https://theweek.com/articles/880107/why-fox-news-created WILLIAM FALK NOVEMBER 22, 2019 The Week] | |||
If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide "pro-administration" coverage to millions. "People are lazy," the aides explained in a memo. "With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, saying he and his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition." | |||
=====Lee Atwater Republican Southern Strategy From Gold Water to Trump===== | =====Lee Atwater Republican Southern Strategy From Gold Water to Trump===== | ||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E You start out in | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E "You start out in 1954 saying niger niger niger but then you get abstract and start saying you want to cut taxes and the by product of that is blacks get hurt worse than whites.] | ||
=====The House Map’s Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022 — Because Of Gerrymandering===== | =====The House Map’s Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022 — Because Of Gerrymandering===== | ||
