Isn't part of it that Fox (and most of the rest of commercial media) say things and characterize events in a way that many people in the U.S. like to hear? shrill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know what "the way that many people in the US like to hear" means. Do you mean that they are genetically predisposed to like to hear these things? Or do you mean that because of the particular socialization and political/economic environment combined with the prior programing by commercial media people like these things?
DDR, I don't think this is true. It is not just that they are capitalist media firms. There is also the historical process of the particular class struggle interacting with specific forms of political, cultural and social processes of development. In a word: contingency. It isn't predetermined that capitalist media will take the particular form that Fox News has.
Brad