There is even a social psychology term for this endless escalating emotional manipulation: “The YouTube rabbit hole effect.”. Highlight the Parental Control feature on the screen. Important: Blocking any rating (such as TV-14) also automatically blocks all higher (more restrictive) ratings such as TV-MA.
The outcome rests on a little-known 65-year-old wonk who will declare the winner.
If you see your friends or family falling into the chasm of cable news, perhaps parental lock is right for you. Press the Menu button on your remote twice.
You can cancel anytime. Now I can hear you saying “So you are saying my mom/dad/uncle/aunt/relative/friend is a victim of Fox News? gain emotionally vital doses of positive self-esteem and ego gratification by blindly hating on the tribal enemy of their self-identified political or cultural tribe. It is, after all, the network that blamed a hoodie for the death of Trayvon Martin and claimed that poor people have it pretty good if they’ve got a refrigerator. Foxocracy: Inside the Network’s Playbook of Tribal Warfare, Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient, turned an unknown Brazillian right-wing activist with only 15% polling into the winner, Many Americans, who have witnessed this Fox News addiction “rapture” firsthand (whereby an agree-to-disagree loved one is transformed into raging tribalized hyperpartisan nutjob), have come to refer to Fox News as, 85% of Fox News fans and viewers we polled are, explicitly hack the easily manipulated emotional vulnerabilities of their mostly white >65 age viewer/social media streaming audience then.
If you have already set up a Parental Controls PIN, you will be prompted to enter your four-digit Locks PIN using the number pad on your remote control before you can continue. But like feral Trumpism, this is also why the Fox News tribal warfare production playbook feeds its 80–90 million monthly users (combined cable/website/social media platforms and YouTube) a steady stream of audiovisual tribal identity activation propaganda narratives and reality perceptions complete with.
Press OK/Select and follow the on-screen instructions. The mother and daughter then had the opportunity to “have a conversation about whether it was a good news source or not.”.
The content category to be blocked will display in the list with a Locked icon. Press the OK button. Abby, a Slate reader, watched her mother—who’d lived in the United States as a permanent resident for nearly 30 years—become a U.S. citizen to vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary. To unsubscribe from text alerts, text STOP to FNCTV (36288) – this will end all Fox News text message subscriptions. Moreover, no one has any control over this involuntary automatic cognitive process that resides in our subconscious unless we are cognitively aware of its existence and power and we purposely and cognitively override our tribalized instinctual reflexes and behaviors. We’d all probably be better off if we shut off Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly and watched sports or nature documentaries or talked to our families. Alerts: How do I disable Breaking News alerts? What the polling research from my firm Transformity Research found is that IF a person has. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. How can I share Fox News articles, videos, and photos? Next, Fox News tribal hate propaganda segment producers and tribal hate televangelist hosts deeply understand that human psychology is not and never has been about “reality” — it is about perception and it’s all about our tribally accepted narratives (i.e., contagious stories) factual or not.
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