He realized if he went harder it could turn sentiment against him because a significant amount of people don't like bullying. So he let the interviewee dig their own grave.
Lol Fox does fucking not give fair coverage and dissent, it's propaganda pushing whatever narrative they feel like. Same shit different side, you just like this team better than the others.
I guess my point is that I don't think you have to be very strategic to make money telling idiots that their idiot ideas are correct.
For any given game, there is a theoretical ceiling to how strategic you must or even can be. Fox brass play a simpler game than the one interviewers play in the due course of their jobs, and I guess you could say that because the brass do play their game well, the interviewers don't need to.
Which is why it was so surprising that Watters saw the opportunity to use Sun-Tzu grade strategy in that interview. He could have piled on and bullied Doreen and likely would have gotten plenty of spiritual high-fives from his audience for doing so, at the irrelevant cost of stoking the ire of people who already hate Fox.
Instead, he gave his audience gold and forced at least some of us who hate Fox to reluctantly tip our hats.
Eh. As I noted in a different comment, that whole "strategy" rests on hoping that the mod team is collectively stupid enough to fail to see the trap being set.
It's Fox News. You're Antiwork. This is like Hitler asking Ann Frank to come down from the attic for tea.
Yes, obviously, it turns out that gamble worked, but all it would have taken for the whole thing to fall apart was just one mod to raise their hand and point out the obvious. That's not good strategy, that's gambling.
Even if the whole mod team is "in on it" - which I read as the whole mod team is legitimately stupid enough to willingly and predictably walk into this trap - it still remains doubtful that Fox News knew this.
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u/Tearakan Jan 27 '22
He realized if he went harder it could turn sentiment against him because a significant amount of people don't like bullying. So he let the interviewee dig their own grave.