Resentment Myth News-"Nothing Ever Changes In Foxland"

[kpete]

Resentment News (and More Blondes Per Square Foot): Explaining What Fox News Channel Is

November 22nd, 2010 by Jay Rosen



Resentment #

On Fox, the news exists in order to generate controversy. And controversy exists in order to generate resentment. And the resentment is what generates ratings. So this is my most concise idea about Fox: we should consider it “resentment news.” I think that’s the genre in which it trades… Resentment of whom? Well, a cultural elite that is corrupt and maneuvering behind the scenes to exercise power.

Myth #

Resentment of the cultural elite as a recurring theme in news puts me in mind of something that the critic Roland Barthes—a Frenchman—said about myth. Myth in the sense of a kind of ideological narrative that motivates people to particpate in politics and engages their emotions. And what Barthes said is: “many signifiers, one signified…” Or to put it another way: many stories—every night there’s new stories on Fox—one narrative that endures. Many provocations, one lesson. The liberals, the cultural elite, are at it again. And this is the essence of myth: that no matter what happens, the story remains the same, which is one reason the whole notion of Fox as a news channel is a little dubious: because nothing ever changes in Foxland.

http://pressthink.org/2010/11/resentment-news-and-more-blondes-per-square-foot-explaining-what-fox-news-channel-is/

[ShadowLiberal]

1. The government should force them to rename it 'Fox Propaganda'

Any news company that fails to meet the requirements of the fairness doctrine should have to rename themselves a propganda show/station/paper/whatever. Then we'd see how well real news would sell compared to the propaganda lies on Fox.