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The Atlantic: Do You Speak Fox? How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language
The Atlantic ^ | Megan Garber

Posted on 09/16/2020 11:45:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/16/2020 11:45:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Completely ignoring SJWs in-group language from “woke” to “performativeness”.


2 posted on 09/16/2020 11:47:18 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: SeekAndFind

After decades it still hasn’t occurred to the people who say this shit that the real problem is themselves.


3 posted on 09/16/2020 11:47:26 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Sorry, but I don’t understand hate speech (that comes from watching Fox).

so I can’t understand what the Atlantic is saying. I guess I must learn to decipher Lies and the rest of liberal speak.


4 posted on 09/16/2020 11:48:10 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t forget “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to account for the hate and vitriol spewing out of left-wing propaganda machines like the Atlantic.


5 posted on 09/16/2020 11:48:56 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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HOW IS FOX CREATING A NEW LANGUAGE ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR?

Language, too, is a norm. It is one more shared fact of political life that can seem self-evident until someone like Trump, or something like Fox, reveals the fragility that was there all along. You might have observed, lately, how Americans seem always to be talking past one another—how we’re failing one another even at the level of our vernacular. In the America of 2020, socialism could suggest “Sweden-style social safety net” or “looming threat to liberty.” Journalist could suggest “a person whose job is to report the news of the day” or “enemy of the people.” Cancel culture could mean … actually, I have no idea at all what cancel culture means at this point. Fox, on its own, did not create that confusion.

But it exacerbated it, and exploited it. The network turned its translations of the world into a business model. Every day, the most watched shows of the most watched cable network in the country—a prime-time destination more popular than ESPN—take the familiar idioms of American democracy and wear away at their common meanings. The result is disorientation. The result is mass suspicion. Like a vengeful God bringing chaos to Babel, Fox has helped to create a nation of people who share everything but the ability to talk with one another.

If you weren’t a regular viewer of Fox, Guilfoyle’s speech, and the many others that followed it as the convention wore on, might have been nearly unintelligible. If you hadn’t been informed that inclusivity is “groupthink”; if you weren’t conditioned to understand that the definition of media is “the enemy”; if you hadn’t been aware that Democrats want to “destroy your families, your lives, and your future”—you might have been jarred by all of the vitriol. You might have found yourself wondering why, in the midst of a global pandemic that had sickened millions of Americans and claimed the lives of more than 170,000, the RNC was warning about the threats of “cosmopolitan elites.” You might also have wondered why, during the nation’s long-overdue racial-justice reckoning, the RNC gave airtime to a couple who brandished guns at peaceful protesters—or why, during an economic emergency that has cost millions of Americans their livelihoods, a teenager was trotted out to talk about cancel culture (“being canceled, as in annulled, as in revoked, as in made void”).

The speeches, yes, were distractions from the ground truths of our crises. But they also attempted another kind of control: They reveled in the power TV has to shape—and to limit—viewers’ empathies. Instead of describing the America that is, the Republican Party described the America that is manufactured, every day, on Fox. It used its platform to refight some of Fox’s fondest micro-wars. It told its viewers not to focus on the people who have died, or the many more who might, but instead to focus on themselves: Your freedom. Your future. Your America. Watching it all, I felt the familiar fog that descends when something is lost in translation, when someone talks about something you share—in this case, a country—using details that are unrecognizable. It was the same kind of haze that came when Trump, newly sworn in as president, coined American carnage to describe a nation where violent crime had been declining for decades. Do we live in the same America? the broken words whisper. Maybe not, the same words reply.

6 posted on 09/16/2020 11:49:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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7 posted on 09/16/2020 11:49:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m old enough to remember when The Atlantic was actually a fairly decent magazine. It’s disappointing to see it’s descended to the level of continuous CNN-MSDNC Marxist propaganda.


8 posted on 09/16/2020 11:50:47 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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But, The Five has Juan Williams as the liberal voice of reason. Shouldn’t this writer be happy that Juan puts all those Neanderthal conservatives in their place on that show? What the heck????


9 posted on 09/16/2020 11:50:56 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

That was actually published? The leftist rag is now a certified journal of how to go insane, and needs to be shut down.


10 posted on 09/16/2020 11:50:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ha, ha, what would they say if they heard they were “lost” to FR or other true conservative media?


11 posted on 09/16/2020 11:51:04 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ― Yogi Berra)
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So the Atlanic is plagiarizing TOLSTOY now? Who next? Dostoevsky?

Next thing you know, they will be running a column called Записки изъ подполья (Notes From The Underground)
12 posted on 09/16/2020 11:52:45 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: SeekAndFind

All SJWs speak is Marxism.


13 posted on 09/16/2020 11:53:54 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Olog-hai

I know i don’t speak liberal...you know:

Russia! Russia!! Russia!!!
Racist!!
Xenophobe!!
Sexist!!!


14 posted on 09/16/2020 11:54:10 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Looks like Megan Garble forgot about the feud between Trump and Fox? So OAN is no longer the favorite and Fox is back in?


15 posted on 09/16/2020 11:58:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who writes and publishes such utter tripe?


16 posted on 09/16/2020 11:59:56 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Brilliant

“After decades it still hasn’t occurred to the people who say this shit that the real problem is themselves.”

Agreed

You, my dear friend, are spot on.
Wish I could say exactly that to the thousands of Libtards I meet every day.


17 posted on 09/16/2020 12:00:24 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left is soo full of hate. No wonder they have no difficulty recruiting molitov cocktail throwers and BLM/Antifa rioters.


18 posted on 09/16/2020 12:02:13 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: God luvs America

Don’t forget “Drumpf”, “Orange man bad”, ad nauseam.


19 posted on 09/16/2020 12:02:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Brilliant

Hope hope they go out of business.


20 posted on 09/16/2020 12:03:04 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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