Fox News brain

noun

An addiction to anger and outrage brought about by overconsumption of sensationalist media.

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nounFox News brain (uncountable)
  1. USuncountableAn addiction to anger and outrage brought about by overconsumption of sensationalist media.

    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.

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    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.

    2019 April 9, Luke O'Neil, “What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News”, in NYMag.com

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

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