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Fox News brain

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Noun

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Fox News brain (uncountable)

  1. An addiction to anger and outrage brought about by overconsumption of sensationalist media.
    • 2019 April 9, Luke O'Neil, “What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News”, in NYMag.com:
      More than a few readers wrote to say this all made them thankful they merely had to contend with Dem-Boomer family who had gone mad for Maddow and Russiagate. “My grandma is a huge Maddow person and operates the same way as Fox News brained people,” one wrote me.[1]
    • 2019 April 12, Luke O'Neil, “"Fox News brain": meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news”, in The Guardian:
      I mentioned the idea of losing family to Fox News brain on Twitter the other day, and unsurprisingly, a lot of people had their own similar stories.[2]
    • 2020 September 16, Megan Garber, “Do You Speak Fox? How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language”, in The Atlantic:
      You might have come across the articles (“I Lost My Dad to Fox News” / “Lost Someone to Fox News?” / “‘Fox News Brain’: Meet the Families Torn Apart by Toxic Cable News”), or the Reddit threads, or the support groups on Facebook, as people have sought ways to mourn loved ones who are still alive.[3]
    • 2021 June 8, Brian Stetler, Why Fox News Has Blood on Its Hands, Literary Hub
      Fox News enabled Donald Trump in ways that changed the country forever. Trump was afflicted by “Fox News brain,” a diagnosis that was ID’ed by a White House aide. It was fun for a while, at least for Fox stars like Sean Hannity, to treat the most powerful man in the world like a marionette.[4]
    • 2022 June 13, Jay Willis, The Supreme Court Has Had Fox News Brain For a Long Time, Balls and Strikes
      Supreme Court justices don’t often discuss their media diets, but the occasional glimpses we do get hint at an institution where Fox News Brain is a common and perhaps incurable affliction.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ O'Neil, Luke (2019 April 9) “What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News”, in NYMag.com[1], archived from the original on 2022-09-12
  2. ^ O'Neil, Luke (2019 April 12) “'Fox News brain': meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news”, in The Guardian[2], archived from the original on 2022-07-23
  3. ^ Garber, Megan (2020 September 16) “Do You Speak Fox? How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language”, in The Atlantic[3], archived from the original on 2022-09-04
  4. ^ Stelter, Brian (2021 June 8) “Why Fox News Has Blood on Its Hands”, in Literary Hub[4], archived from the original on 2022-08-07
  5. ^ Willis, Jay (2022 June 13) “The Supreme Court Has Had Fox News Brain For a Long Time”, in Balls and Strikes[5], archived from the original on 2022-06-24