, Columnist
Fox News Is Warping Republican Incentives
The news media needs clicks and ratings. Healthy political parties should have other priorities.
The show that never ends.
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Let’s talk a little about Fox News and the Republican Party.
Political parties in the U.S. are made up of both formal organizations (such as the Republican National Committee) and informal networks. Or, to look at it another way, each party has thousands and thousands of actors who can be grouped by what they do: politicians, campaign and governing professionals, formal party officials and staff, donors and activists, party-aligned interest groups, and the partisan press.