Read the article excerpted below for a lesson, taken from Fox News experiences, about how to survive and prosper in a propagandist media environment.

(Jon Stewart was right, of course.)

Daily Kos :: Interview Skills 101–Surviving the Fox Hunt

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The key to “surviving the Fox hunt” is to stop pretending it’s a fair fight or a fight by reality-based rules. It’s not an actual interview or a real conversation–the questions don’t deserve to be answered. If you choose to be responsive rather than proactive you have lost before you open your mouth because you have decided to let the Rs frame the agenda with loaded questions. Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy.

When the host notices you are not answering his question (and he will, because his question was designed to trap you and he will notice that you sidestepped the trap) and draws the audience’s attention to the fact that you have not answered the question, that’s all to the good, because that also encourages the audience to pay very close attention to whatever you say next:

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