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    9013 days ago

    Reminder that Fox News was created in the wake of Watergate specifically because media coverage of the scandal went from non-existent to shifting public opinion against it in weeks. It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform to prevent that from ever happening again.

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      4513 days ago

      Nixon aides wanted a pro-administration network, and some of them were eventually instrumental in getting Fox News going, but it took over 20 years between Watergate and the launch of FNC.

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        13 days ago

        Yeah, I think they mean Whitewater, the fake scandal fishing expedition that led to the Lewinsky thing…

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          No they meant watergate, Roger Ailes, the founding CEO of Fox News, was Nixon’s media guy during watergate.

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              212 days ago

              For sure, but Watergate was specifically the spark that inspired them.

              The comment you replied to included the caveat “eventually”, but the whitewater scandal was almost the opposite, as it was largely the right wing looking for scandals to promote on places like Fox News.

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      413 days ago

      It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform

      It worked too well.