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Assertion Supported
Biden's 2020 Campaign Ignored Progressive Boycotts to Advertise on Breitbart
“There'd been this effort on the left for a while to boycott Fox News and Breitbart websites. The Biden campaign said, no, we're buying advertising there because we want to get next to the content that people are seeing.”
Sasha Issenberg Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 15:25 Inside The Marketing Machine Of Billion-Dollar Presidential Campaigns
Opinion
Ryan Holiday: Fox News programming exists to sell grifts to viewers
“There's an argument that Fox news basically exists for the sake of like reverse mortgages, gold coins. And other forms of grift. Like, if you watch Fox News, just the commercials, you get a sense of, like, Just how dumb the audience is to be perfectly honest.”
Ryan Holiday Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 12:40 Ryan Holiday On The Economics Of Book Publishing
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