and it warps the public debate. there s this new nbc journal poll that finds most fox viewers think the president s being honest about russia. most cnn viewers know the president s lied for two years about russia. but most fox viewers think he s telling the truth. as a result fox warps the public debate. i think ultimately the hannitys of the world actually do a disservice to the viewers by misleading them about what s going on. because if trump is impeached, if a year or two from now trump is out of office fox viewers are going to be so confused. they re not going to realize what happened. they re not going to realize all of these scandals are what led to his downfall. maybe that won t happen. but if it does then fox viewers have been misinformed. and the details about at&t and about cohn, it s just one of many examples of scandals and controversies that fox viewers are in the dark about. right. we talk about this revolving door. there s also of course the echo chamber. we know ha
seems to me you were foreshadowing where we are today. hannity happened to be on vacation this week, but it was the hannitys of the world that led us here. right. we ve also written about how trump has his real cabinet and then he has his shadow cable news cabinet and he listens sometimes to the people in the cable news cabinet more than the people who are really working with him in the administration and that was clearly on display this week, you had somebody, you know, you had mattis resigning, he is one of the people who is actually trying to shape trump and move him in a direction that is corralling him, whereas you have the people like ann coulter, with laura ingraham who are reminding him what the base thinks, but what they re actually doing i think is that trump was the person who took over fox news as opposed to fox news shaping him and i think that that s a really interesting dynamic that push and pull. do you agree? absolutely. it s hard to imagine roger ailes allowing
the president. that s tyranny, isn t it? let s chat, maybe president trump is listening to discuss. reliable sources brian stelter and columnist of usa today, brian, how much influence cuz conservative media have over the president? i certainly think these most popular pro-trump hosts have an enormous influence. i would say whether there are some principlesed responsible reporters and the entertainment wing, the hannitys of the world that have an enormous amount of influence we can see that when he live tweets certain talk shows on fox that give him support. a new story in the new york times today says trump spent more time than ever before in front of the television, often retreating to his residence out of concern he is being watched too closely. a new report in the new york times . this cable news, fox, in particular, shapes the president s world view. i this i to some degree it s
i m blaming them for putting that on the air in realtime and 12 hours later not saying anything. i m blaming the management of fox and the investors in fox and some of the other talent who are decent people at fox for saying nothing. if you watch fox and read about it and see clips, they re going to say it s not just fox, they re making money. you re saying it s time to talk about this, we can t ignore this. margaret you said look at all these targets, it reads like a list of shawn hannity emphasis pre-broadcast crib notes. that was the way you put it in your the washington post column. again, are you blaming the hannitys of the world? i think they have a share of this sort of revving up of hatred without regard for what
if candidates like alexandria ocasio-cortez even get a little bit of media attention outside of what the young turks does and the progressive ecosystem does, they have an excellent chance of winning. but if the media shuts them out, it is an institutional advantage for the right wing that is fundamentally unfair. i noticed how you were covering alexandria ocasio-cortez very early on. you were talking about her race on the young turks many months ago. so were websites like the intercept, they were paying close attention to the race. i think it helped her in a big way. is this are we at the point now where progressive media has matched conservative media, you know, the hannitys of the world, in terms of supporting candidates that you want to see elected? yeah, in some ways we do one better. we re very honest that we re progressives. we call the young turks home of progressives and we support progressive candidates. young turks has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for democra