Propaganda vs. Real News: The War on Facts (starring Tucker Carlson) - a podcast by Justin Ahn

Tucker Carlson is not a real journalist. FOX News is not real journalism. And increasingly, other news networks like CNN or NBC are drifting away from real news as well, by adopting FOX-style monologues and a gossip mentality.

Dissecting an except from Carlson's show, I explain how he hardly includes any concrete facts, instead choosing to construct a persuasive rhetoric—an agenda of emotions. In constructing un-factual characters of his opponents, he partially affiliates with a political party, though not completely. A channel like FOX, by amplifying Carlson's voice, mainstreams the language of conspiracy and replaces true journalism. Some subtitles and rhetorical headlines are outright ridiculous. Really, Carlson's agenda is best describes as—yes, propaganda—in fact, Wikipedia's description of propaganda perfectly matches his main features. Hopefully we will learn to differentiate fact from opinion, and explanation from persuasion.

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