'Talk radio's hosts and their station management remain mouthpieces eager to repeat the lines Trump inserts,” the ex-CIA analyst argued.
Fox News is President Donald Trump’s “de facto ministry of truth,” a former senior CIA analyst wrote in column Wednesday arguing that Trump’s media strategy channels the Old Bolsheviks.
“Like the Red Army's use of massed artillery barrages in World War Two, the goal is obvious: to pound the enemy—in this case, the Fourth Estate—into the ground,” Harrington wrote.“Fox News, an all but an official White House outlet, remains his on-air home as well as de facto ministry of truth,” Harrington claimed.
Jerry Taylor, co-founder of Niskanen Center, a previously libertarian and now moderate think tank, suggested in the story that Fox News provided a layer of protection for Trump with respect to the Mueller report, which at the time had not been released. Trump has made his appreciation of Fox News well known. The president regularly compliments the conservative network while bashing competitors including CNN and MSNBC.
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