What the heck? It turns out there’s a Fox Effect movie.
Here’s the filmmaker’s blurb from the successful Kickstarter that funded the project …
When the filmmaker’s parents moved to a place where her father had a long solo commute to work and started listening to Talk Radio to alleviate the boredom, her family saw him change from a non-political Democrat to a radicalized, angry Right-Wing Republican. What happened to Dad?
Trailer after the jump …
This isn’t really the Fox Effect, but man, this request must have led to some awkward moments. From TPM Reader JB …
I recall the moment I knew my Dad, an engineer and a very rational guy, had changed. In Dec. 1999, he called all of his kids and grandkids to join him to experience the fallout from Y2K together. His house was full of supplies for survival.
An interesting spin on the Fox Effect story from TPM Reader TB, on how Fox News turned his mother against Oprah …
The note you shared about the Fox effect I think is something that really should be taken quite seriously. My parents are similar to what most people have discussed here. They actually would never use racial epithets around us, probably not at all, but there was definitely a feeling of African-American’s being dangerous and out for trouble presented by them. Thank goodness that as we as a country evolve, I think so do these views, but obviously we still have a long way to go.
TPM Reader CB shares his story …
I have to say, I’ve seen a noticeable shift in my parents’ views over the years as they’ve fallen deeper and deeper into Fox’s grip. Although much more so for my mother than my father. (In fact, virtually every time we talk on the phone, I hear Fox droning on in the background. And when I am home visiting, I make it point to put Fox on mute.)
TPM Reader CG shares his story …
My experiences are similar to the readers you have quoted. But in my experience people who get submersed in the right wing media don’t just become more racially and ethnically intolerant – they start buying into the whole package.
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