Fox News brain

Fox News brain

English

Noun

Fox News brain (uncountable)

1. An addiction to anger and outrage brought about by overconsumption of sensationalist media.
   • 2019 April 9, Luke O'Neil, What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News, NYMag.com

     More than a few readers wrote to say this all made them thankful they merely had to contend with Dem-Boomer family who had gone mad for Maddow and Russiagate. “My grandma is a huge Maddow person and operates the same way as Fox News brained people,” one wrote me.[1]

   • 2019 April 12, Luke O'Neil, "Fox News brain": meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news, The Guardian

     I mentioned the idea of losing family to Fox News brain on Twitter the other day, and unsurprisingly, a lot of people had their own similar stories.[2]

   • 2020 September 16, Megan Garber, Do You Speak Fox? How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language, The Atlantic

     You might have come across the articles (“I Lost My Dad to Fox News” / “Lost Someone to Fox News?” / “‘Fox News Brain’: Meet the Families Torn Apart by Toxic Cable News”), or the Reddit threads, or the support groups on Facebook, as people have sought ways to mourn loved ones who are still alive.[3]

   • 2021 June 8, Brian Stetler, Why Fox News Has Blood on Its Hands, Literary Hub

     Fox News enabled Donald Trump in ways that changed the country forever. Trump was afflicted by “Fox News brain,” a diagnosis that was ID’ed by a White House aide. It was fun for a while, at least for Fox stars like Sean Hannity, to treat the most powerful man in the world like a marionette.[4]

   • 2022 June 13, Jay Willis, The Supreme Court Has Had Fox News Brain For a Long Time, Balls and Strikes

     Supreme Court justices don’t often discuss their media diets, but the occasional glimpses we do get hint at an institution where Fox News Brain is a common and perhaps incurable affliction.[5]

See also

• Faux News
• Trump derangement syndrome

References

1. O'Neil, Luke (2019-04-09), “What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News”, in NYMag.com‎, archived from the original on 2022-09-12, retrieved 2022-09-13
2. O'Neil, Luke (2019-04-12), “'Fox News brain': meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 2022-07-23, retrieved 2022-09-13
3. Garber, Megan (2020-09-16), “Do You Speak Fox? How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 2022-09-04, retrieved 2022-09-13
4. Stelter, Brian (2021-06-08), “Why Fox News Has Blood on Its Hands”, in Literary Hub‎, archived from the original on 2022-08-07, retrieved 2022-09-13
5. Willis, Jay (2022-06-13), “The Supreme Court Has Had Fox News Brain For a Long Time”, in Balls and Strikes‎, archived from the original on 2022-06-24, retrieved 2022-09-13