Brian Klaas interviews former Russian television producer Peter Pomerantsev about how Fox News and Russian state-owned media attract and manipulate audiences:
“Both, Pomerantsev argues, treat news as entertainment, complete with characters designed to depict those who hold opposing viewpoints as buffoonish caricatures.”
“Fox, he says, likes to present extreme left-wingers whose positions can be easily caricatured; Russian TV uses cartoonish members of the opposition as objects of ridicule.”
Said Pomerantsev: “They turn everything into a Jerry Springer show. Essentially, Tucker Carlson has ‘idiot liberals’ on.”
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