Cnn primetime with abby philips starts right now. Objectively american democracy is in perilous condition. The nations politics are poisoned. Truth has become optional. Instead of desired or even required. The republic has of course always faced threats to it even before Rupert Murdoch. But so much of the current state of our democracy can be traced back to the beast of his creation. Good evening everyone. Im abby philip. Rupert murdoch is stepping down as ceo of fox news tonight. His legacy is outrage porn. Partisan red meat. Stoking relentless culture wars. But it all started with what you could argue is a noble vision to create a center right news network to elevate more perspectives that arent based in gotham or in washington. But instead, Stoking Division seemed to become murdochs mission. So did power and so did the money. Fox became a mouth piece for republican administrations, a mouth piece really for donald trump and eventually a vehicle for his baseless conspiracies. It is im
behind a local news conglomerate. it s supposed to be something hyper local and as a result of that it s connected to the local economy, the local flavor and then you have to national imposition of values on it. i m not sure if this is very effective. that looked like a hostage video. when conservatives say media bias is insidious it s because people who are engaging in it don t think it exists. it s internal, it s natural, it s an inclination shared by everybody around you so it s cultural. it exists in the ether. it s also by emotion an emphasis, it s not so direct and obvious like this. i feel like this is more propaganda. we conservatives not you, because you were probably not even born when the wall fell but we conservatives i was there. we conservatives mocked forever the soviets and the fact that the state would type out their scripts and they would