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I don't know if this is a great example, because Fox News actually incorporated Starbucks' lack of Christmas messaging into the weird "War on Christmas" narrati

by chc 6y ago

I don't know if this is a great example, because Fox News actually incorporated Starbucks' lack of Christmas messaging into the weird "War on Christmas" narrative it tries to manufacture every year.

throwaway894345 6y ago
I don't know how that would invalidate the example; that still doesn't show that there were Christians who felt that way, rather that Fox believed the BuzzFeed story and leaned into it.
- Spivak 6y ago
  Yeah, assuming that Fox News is representative voice for Christians seems way off. They are just as hungry for manufactured outrage and clicks at everyone else. Fox running a bit telling their viewers they should be angry about something isn’t evidence that anyone was actually angry.
  - wrs 6y ago
    In fact you could just about say the opposite. It is arguably Fox News’s primary business model to tell people what newly manufactured outrage they should be angry about today.
  - ImprovedSilence 6y ago
    Yeah, but I would argue that Fox news is seeding that rage and making it mainstream. I guarantee that my grandparents would never ever give even a second thought to a starbucks cup that they will never see in their life and if they did come across would would not get offended on their own, but the second they get fed that story from Fox News, it becomes "holy hell look what them damn liberals are doing to christianity, I'd rather die then vote for them!!". This manufactured rage creates extremism by a thousand paper cuts.
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
I found that whole story quite amusing. A group of people are supposedly upset that symbols of pagan idolatry are absent from a business whose logo is a bare-breasted sea hag/siren exposing her unmentionables. Even if the kernel of the story isn't true there are a lot of people who are easily manipulated by this sort of outrage journalism.

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I don't know if this is a great example, because Fox News actually incorporated Starbucks' lack of Christmas messaging into the weird "War on Christmas" narrati

by chc 6y ago

I don't know if this is a great example, because Fox News actually incorporated Starbucks' lack of Christmas messaging into the weird "War on Christmas" narrative it tries to manufacture every year.

throwaway894345 6y ago
I don't know how that would invalidate the example; that still doesn't show that there were Christians who felt that way, rather that Fox believed the BuzzFeed story and leaned into it.
- Spivak 6y ago
  Yeah, assuming that Fox News is representative voice for Christians seems way off. They are just as hungry for manufactured outrage and clicks at everyone else. Fox running a bit telling their viewers they should be angry about something isn’t evidence that anyone was actually angry.
  - wrs 6y ago
    In fact you could just about say the opposite. It is arguably Fox News’s primary business model to tell people what newly manufactured outrage they should be angry about today.
  - ImprovedSilence 6y ago
    Yeah, but I would argue that Fox news is seeding that rage and making it mainstream. I guarantee that my grandparents would never ever give even a second thought to a starbucks cup that they will never see in their life and if they did come across would would not get offended on their own, but the second they get fed that story from Fox News, it becomes "holy hell look what them damn liberals are doing to christianity, I'd rather die then vote for them!!". This manufactured rage creates extremism by a thousand paper cuts.
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
I found that whole story quite amusing. A group of people are supposedly upset that symbols of pagan idolatry are absent from a business whose logo is a bare-breasted sea hag/siren exposing her unmentionables. Even if the kernel of the story isn't true there are a lot of people who are easily manipulated by this sort of outrage journalism.