Why does FOX call it the "elite media"

[bluestateguy]

O'Reilly, Hanratty, Fox and Friends all call the netweork news channels the "elite media". That makes no sense. Tens of millions of people watch the network news every night, but only 2 million people a night, at nest, watch Fox News programs. You have to have cable to watch Fox News and that costs money, while NBC, CBS and ABC do not require the purchase of cable TV. So how can the networks be "elite" if they are free of charge while Fox News requires payment of a monthly cable bill that many ordinary people cannot afford?

[leftofthedial]

1. every syllable of every word they say

is disinformation

Gawd Bless Ronnie Raygun

[arcane1]

2. "elite" is just another of those Gingrich neocon buzzwords...

the ones he passed around back in his day to use as epithets

it has little to do with whether they are elite or not, but it is rather a signal to the sheep that you can disregard who or what they are referring to.

same with "liberal" really. Just another word for "unreliable" in neocon newspeak

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Yes, that's right...

and now for some more NEOCON SPEAK!!!!!
The black helicopters flying around are part of a vast left wing conspiracy for the UN to take over "Meruka".

FReepers are so idiotic!

[ozymandius]

3. This is an admission of their inferior quality service. eom

[xxqqqzme]

5. 'Elite' is something

Fux wishes it were! But alas, no class!

[philosophie_en_rose]

6. Because Fox is trash media with an inferiority complex

[SOS]

7. Elite

1. A group enjoying superior intellectual, social or economic status.
2. The best or most skilled member of a group.
These definitions certainly don't apply to Fox news.

For Fox, may I suggest:

dreg:
1.basest or least desirable. Often used in the plural, Fox News personalities are the dregs of American media.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

8. Psychological bonding with know-nothing sheeple.

The same tactics are used to seperate peasants from the academics who know what a corrupt regime is doing to them. CAN YOU SAY CLASS WARFARE? Americans are suspicious of people who know more than they do and the Repubs use that to paint whistle-blowing truth-tellers as elites, snobs, PRACTICALLY FUCKING WITCHES, FER CHRIST'S SAKE!!

[aquart]

9. Elite is code for Jewish.

That's what they're implying.

[Zero Gravitas]

10. Lies

Its part of the anti-intellectual bent of the right wing. Intellectuals typically realize that the world is not black and white, but that most issues are shades of gray. The right wing depends on a black and white world view so they disparage any kind of in depth analysis. Plus "elite" implies a powerful minority that is NOT LIKE US, i.e. the archetypal THEM.

The right wing depends on fear-mongering and division to attract support that their philosophy otherwise would not generate. Unfortunately they have been spectacularly successful in using these tactics to convince main-stream non-political America that they are much more conservative than they really are.