Is Fox News Part of a Wider Phenomenon?

Dan Rather at CBS told Esquire that moments are when a viewer feels it, smells it and knows it. Smith recalls that at Fox moments were best when the viewer's culture was under threat,. He described it as existential white tribal fear and visceral resentment. America isn't making fewer of the lonely, angry and unaffiliated, it's making more every day.

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