"From a 14-year Fox News contributor, guest anchor, and two-time New York Times bestselling author comes an unprecedented insider’s account of the Fox News playbook―the production secrets and manipulation strategies Fox uses to influence viewers, divide families, weaponize the daily discourse of news and public opinion, and addict a core audience on right-wing rage and fear.
Fox News did not start America’s culture war―but they have the manipulative and destructive genius to exploit it. For the first time, a Fox News veteran―fourteen years as contributor and guest anchor―exposes and diagrams the pages within the Fox News playbook that the liberal and progressive candidates will be fighting against in 2020. This is the very same playbook that Fox News used to move 12% of Independents to vote Trump in 2016 and win previous the Democrat strongholds of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Author Tobin Smith takes readers behind the scenes of the actual production of the “Fair and Balanced” opinion pieces and panel segments that feed a ravenous right-wing audience. How are these productions rigged so that right-wing pundits always win? What techniques does Fox News use in manipulating its viewers’ tribal right-wing instincts: to addict them, to activate a hatred toward partisan enemies; and to hook them on feelings of intellectual and cultural superiority?
Filled with never revealed conversations with Fox News executives and opinion programming producers, breaking down the collateral damage among friends and family caused by the waging of an endless culture war, Foxocracy brings incendiary proof from an insider and on-air talent of audience manipulation psychology and production tactics. And perhaps even more frightening, this book reveals how that the playbook is now being used by Fox News rivals like MSNBC and CNN."
"In his groundbreaking first book, Changewave Investing, investment guru Tobin Smith revealed his secrets for scoring triple-digit returns in the stock market by focusing on the emerging sectors that had the best potential for explosive growth, what Smith referred to as change waves. Now, in an all new audiobook that extends the ChangeWave philosophy to grapple with the vagaries of today's turbulent market, he shows investors how to achieve outsized returns even as the country downshifts from the irrational exuberance of the "bubble" economy to an economy based on real companies and real profits.
Changewave Investing 2.0 presents a radically improved method for picking the next monster stocks while protecting
profits. Creating the highly successful ChangeWave Investment Alliance based on the popular "open source" model of Linux and other innovative technologies, Tobin Smith taught listeners how to profit from the hottest market in history by drawing on the highest quality investment intelligence available-150,000 subscribers and their specialized knowledge of their individual professions. Using the ChangeWave principle he developed, the audiobook explains how to identify the stocks with the fastest growth potential before Wall Street does, how to screen out the pretenders, how to balance a portfolio between aggressive growth stocks and stocks with lower volatility, and how to invest limited resources for maximum returns. Specific guidelines for buying and selling during a volatile market provide savvy advice on embracing and benefiting from market meltdowns.
From the ascent of his first book to the top to business bestseller lists, to his role as contributing editor to Fox's Bull and Bears, to the rapid growth of his electronic network, Tobin Smith's impact on the investment community has had the momentum of a tsunami. With Changewave Investing 2.0, listeners can learn the strategies and techniques that will allow them to profit from the transformational change our economy is only beginning to experience."
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