Tag Archives: Fox News

Will AI Be Used To Suppress Votes?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 24, 2024

In 1973, an Angela Carter predicted the power of unreality to take over our lives. In 2024, AI may be proving her right.

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Milton Explains QAnon Fantasizing

By Robin Bates | Published: March 21, 2022

Milton’s Satan whispering into Eve’s ear as she sleeps is a lot like QAnon and Fox News whispering into the ears of gullible followers.

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Carter Captures Trumpian Unreality

By Robin Bates | Published: December 1, 2021

Angela Carter’s “Infernal Machines of Doctor Hoffman” captures the unreality of the Trump years.

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Fox News and Its Crow(vid) Victims

By Robin Bates | Published: October 7, 2021

La Fontaine’s “The Fox and the Crow” captures how Fox News is bilking its viewers.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Fox and the Crow", Covid deniers, COVID-19, Jean de la Fontaine, pandemic of the unvaccinated | Comments closed

Tucker Carlson’s Insidious Influence

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2021

Satirist Alexandra Petri wonders why Fox News’ Tucker Carlson aspires to no more than Hungary. Why not shoot for Mordor?

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Exposing Stalin-Style Fake News

By Robin Bates | Published: March 3, 2019

Monday NeverTrumper Jennifer Rubin made a Stalin allusion on MSNBC’s A. M. Joy yesterday that caught my eye because I am currently reading a novel about Stalin’s Soviet Union during the German invasion. Vasily Grossman’s extraordinary Life and Fate (1960), resembles Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the way it captures the country at a moment […]