Name: How Fox News and President Trump Lost Control to Their Base | NYT Exclusive
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And I’m going to tell you  how we got here.

Tomorrow, you can shock the world again.”

“Hello everyone. We are out  here live on Facebook

at President Trump’s rally in Cape Girardeau.”

It’s the night before a historic midterm election.

Control of Congress, the future of Trump’s presidency,

And team Trump is pulling out all the stops

There’s no more sacred ground in conservative media.

I have been watching  Trump rallies” —

Sean Hannity will be among the presenters.

in all of cable news — Fox News’s PR department,

Sean Hannity is supposed to be like an opinion columnist.

Talent for a news organization should not

It erases any line between the news organization

Hannity completely denies it, tweets out:

“I will not be on stage campaigning with the president.”

He says he’s just covering the final rally for his show.

“Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity.”

would be a giant step for the network that

pledged to make the news “fair and balanced.”

It all started with an Australian media mogul

Rupert Murdoch, from the  minute he steps ashore

is all about upending the elitist news environment.

He wants to blow up the entire media system here.

in New York alone, that includes The Post,

Murdoch’s expanding his empire in the United States

just as a new right-wing radio star enters the scene.

“Rush Limbaugh, talent  on loan from God.”

Rush Limbaugh is a  national hit — he is huge.

But what Limbaugh doesn’t have is the gravitas

Roger Ailes was in the Nixon White House.

He knows Watergate happens because The Washington Post,

this beacon of credibility, this mainstream news

The two men make their pitch to the base.

Because a very large audience is begging it to be.”

We are fair and balanced because the others aren’t.

It’s a bullhorn, not a dog whistle, to those people who

have felt left out by the news conversation.

It’s a salacious story tailor-made for Fox.

“Get ready with your clicker to turn your volume up.”

It gripped the base and starts to solidify their audience.

“Strike happened shortly  after dark.”

“Are American policies too strict or not strict enough?”

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