Podcast #211 - Fox News Finally Realized Conspiracy Theories Can Hurt Trump

About this episode

The episode discusses how Fox News shifted its focus from Trump's vanity project to more pressing news, highlighting the network's reaction to audience engagement with conspiracy theories.

Fox News started last week dutifully hyping up Trump’s proposed White House ballroom. On Monday on every show, I covered Trump’s favorite vanity project was championed as a life saving measure that would protect the president and top-ranking cabinet officials from the bullets of a would be assassin. By Tuesday the network had moved on. Fox News executives are known for obsessively tracking audience reaction. I suspect that even the most diehard Fox News fans were just not that excited over an enormous columned building their glorious leader cannot stop talking about. The network switched its focus to the third attempt on the president’s life along with King Charles’ visit and the White House state dinner. Blurry surveillance video footage of Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting, attempting to rush past a throng of armed security personnel was far more compelling than discussions about giant event spaces and drone-proof roofs. By mid-week the network made a pivot to scolding ‘Liberal lunatics’ for promoting conspiracy theories about the latest attempt on the president’s life. Since I started this project in February 2022, I’ve seen Fox News hosts promote conspiracy…

Topics covered

• conspiracy theories
• Trump
• Fox News coverage
• political commentary
• media analysis
• assassination attempts
• audience reaction

Keywords

• Fox News
• Trump
• conspiracy theories
• media
• politics
• assassination
• audience reaction
• King Charles
• Hillary Clinton
• Hunter Biden

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fox News, Iran

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