Fox News functions as the leading platform broadcasting state anti-Muslim rhetoric

Evidence

“I can’t bear to watch the news, especially Fox.” Jihan was fully inducted into American culture and was familiar with the leading network that foments popular zeal against Muslims in the United States and beyond its borders. The most potent of the mainstream media platforms where presidents, congresswomen and -men, and other state actors push rhetoric that endorses the notion that Islam is wed to terror, and where hatemongers are emboldened to take up arms in the crusade against its adherents. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 341

Categorization

• SHARE: The reader’s specific interest in states learning Islamophobic techniques across borders — this names Fox as the export vector for American rhetoric.
• XREF: Contrast with international media cases to come; does Fox-style dialectical rhetoric replicate in Indian or French media? — connects to: A mainstream news watchdog awarded top honor to conspiratorial anti-Muslim TV.; Fox News succeeded because market demand for partisan news already existed — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 139