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:''This discusses a 2025-08-08 interview with CUNY journalism prof Reece Peck<ref name=Peck><!--Reece Peck-->{{cite Q|Q131374387}}</ref> about how he thinks Left media outlets could increase their effectiveness by talking more respectfully with the poor and middle class, replicating Fox populism. A video and 29:00 mm:ss podcast excerpted from the interview will be added when available. The podcast will be released 2025-08-08 to the fortnightly "Media & Democracy" show<ref name=M&D><!--Media & Democracy-->{{cite Q|Q127839818}}</ref> syndicated for the [[w:Pacifica Foundation|Pacifica Radio]]<ref><!--Pacifica Radio Network-->{{cite Q|Q2045587}}</ref> Network of [[w:List of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates|over 200 community radio stations]].''<ref><!--list of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates-->{{cite Q|Q6593294}}</ref>

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[[w:City University of New York|CUNY]] journalism professor Reece Peck<ref name=Peck/> describes how he thinks Left media outlets could increase their effectiveness by working harder to understand the concerns of the working class and packaging policy prescriptions in terms that resonate more with their target audiences, replicating Fox populism. He is interviewed by Spencer Graves.<ref name=Graves><!--Spencer Graves-->{{cite Q|Q56452480}}</ref> 

Peck has documented this in numerous publications including his (2019) ''Fox populism: Branding conservatism as working class'' (Cambridge U. Pr.). Other recent publications relevant to this issue include the following: 
 
* Reece Peck and Manel Palos Pons (2025-08-08) "Left Populist Media Online: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S.’s The Young Turks and Spain’s La Base", ''Television & New Media''.
* Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "More than money and algorithms: the cultural roots of Trump’s alt-media strategy", ''Communication, Culture, & Critique''. 
* Anthony Nadler and Reece Peck (2025-03) "The Left Needs Media That Competes -- and wins", ''Jacobin'', which notes that the most successful right-wing media outlets presented themselves as champions of their viewers’ dignity, the only voices that truly respected their communities.
* David Pakman and Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "How did [[w:Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]] become a Trump MAGA cult?", ''David Packman Show''.
* Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "Trump, [[w:Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]] and the new conservative culture war", ''The Hill''. 
* Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "Reece Peck on Fox News’ blue-collar conservatism", ''Illiberalism Studies Program''.
* Reece Peck (2016) "Usurping the usable past: How Fox News remembered the Great Depression during the Great Recession", ''Journalism''.

In brief, Peck finds that the success of Fox and of Trump has been built on developing long-term relationships based on working to understand and respect the concerns of their audience and framing their actions in terns that resonate with the audience. 

== Highlights ==

=== First build a relationship ===

Peck said that the first chapter of ''Fox Populism'' describes other conservative cable channels that competed with the Fox cable channel when it was new. They failed and folded: 

{{quote|
Think "right wing PBS." They thought that if they just give audiences the good gospel of [[w:Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] conservatism that they would take off like a rocket. What they misunderstood is that it really wasn't so much about the conservative ideology people were hungry for. It was more a style of presentation that was resonant with working class audiences. ... They didn't understand working class taste. They didn't understand working class morality and narratives that resonate with working class people. 

That's precisely what Fox news did understand. With [[w:Roger Ailes|Roger Ailes]] coming from daytime television, which is a working class kind of ... media, and then recruiting people from tabloid media like [[w:Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'reilly]] and [[w:Shepard Smith|Shep Smith]] talk radio like [[w:Sean Hannity|Sean Hannity]].

They had their priorities right. ... 'We're going to be engaging stylistically. And ideology ... and framing comes secondary to that objective.'}}

Graves then asked, "What should left outlets like community radio and I personally do to leverage this?" 

Peck said I should retain my commitment to education and fact checking. {{quote|

Be your authentic self, but [recruit] people from unlikely places as guests. ... [[w:Ed Schultz|Ed Schultz]] was the only kind of really populist working class style show on [[w:MSNBC|MSNBC]]. And what I thought was so interesting about Schultz's show was that he would have Union leaders be pundits. It wasn't just that he wanted to know what's going on with the Union story. He saw them as talent, because they had a kind of working class disposition. ... They were plain spoken. Maybe they have regional accents that you don't hear on cable news. [Broaden] your scope about who are legitimate voices. What is talent? ... [Think] outside the box for speakers and guests ... . Often, liberal and progressives have people like me, some professor, some credentialed person, not someone that has training in tabloid media formats.}}

=== The Young Turks and La Base ===

Peck and Manel Palos Pons<ref><!-- Manel Palos Pons-->{{cite Q|Q135524240}}</ref> studied two of the most successful Left of center YouTube news channels:<ref>Peck and Palos Pons (2025).</ref> [[w:The Young Turks|The Young Turks]] (TYT) and [[w:es:La Base (podcast)|La Base]] in Spain. Peck and Palos Pons found that TYT and La Base were stylistically similar to Fox but with Left-leaning content. {{quote|

They're more emotional. They're more passionate. They use very morally stark narratives and frames. ... We think that these styles are naturally Right wing when we see them. But YouTube disabuses that. And with Manal we found out that this wasn't just a trend for Left wing media on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]], like The Young Turks. But it was happening abroad. It was happening in Spain. ...

They're using very similar critiques of the media ... that are very much couched in a Leftist tradition of media criticism, where you look more about the corporate power and influence over media. 

And they were not your stuffy, emotionally reserved scripted professionals. They were news rebels. They were anti-anchors. They wore cool leather jackets. They swore on air. They were basically the mirror image of the Right in some ways of that deprofessionalized, informal, emotionally expressive style. 

Also, one thing that we found both in Spain and the US: These leftist shows on YouTube have a media-centric theory of power. ... They really see media as the key player in over everything. They think you have to win media, and that trickles down to organizing ... to legislation ... to Congressional races. And I really think the right has known this for a while. That's why the right has always invested so much in media since the [[w:Lewis F. Powell Jr.#Powell Memorandum, 1971|Powell Memo]] in the 1970s ... . Donald Trump -- you don't have a figure ... in American history that believed media power equals political power more than Donald Trump. ...

For 30 years or 40 years there's been this narrative that the Conservative movement has pushed about the bias of the mainstream media. But what's interesting when you look at Left wing shows on YouTube, they're constantly talking about critiques of the mainstream media. But they do it from a distinctly left wing tradition of media criticism. It's less about how snobby journalists are, how they look down on you. That's what the right talks about. ...

Left Populist media really sees ... media as a key player in political mobilization and ideological power.}}

Graves concurred, {{quote|

The media create the stage upon which politicians read their lines.}}

=== Building cultural loyalties with audiences over time ===

Graves asked about Peck's paper with Nadler.<ref>Nadler and Peck (2025.)</ref> Peck replied that the Right sees politics {{quote|

more about building cultural loyalties with audiences over time ... with the working class by using sports ... by using nonpolitical elements of society to forge those cultural connections. Once those cultural loyalties have been made, ... when the when the time arises of an election, ... they're already rooting for the Conservative to win ... .}}

=== Social media === 

Graves asked about social media herding their audiences into echo chambers, not realizing they are hearing themselves. Peck replied, {{quote|

We don't want to overestimate the technology as the culprit, which I think a lot of Liberals and scholars have done since Donald Trump won 2016. ... While it has its uses, that ... misses the way in which some of the things that worked online are the same things that always worked on TV and radio. Charismatic hosts, relatable conversations, emotional moments. ... Good narratives still matter. Framing still matters in the online space.}}

=== How Fox remembered the Great Depression during the Great Recession === 

Graves noted that Peck (2016) reported that [[w:Amity Shlaes|Amity Shlaes]] (2007) ''The Forgotten Man: A New History of the [[w:Great Depression|Great Depression]]'' argued the New Deal prolonged rather than shortened the Great Depression. And Conservative media featured him and similar experts during the Congressional debate over the proper response to the 2007-2008 [[w:Great Recession#United States policy responses|Great Recession]] effectively prevented the Obama administration from bailing out the working class in their response.   

Graves said, "I've done my own research on that. The presidency of [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]] had by far the highest rate of economic growth per per year, like 8% per year for 12 years, 6% for the first 6 years and over 10% for the next 6 years with the highest tax rate on the ultra wealthy and with wage and price controls to prevent price gouging that had plagued the three other major previous wars in US history. The [[w:War of 1812|War of 1812]], the [[w:American Civil War|Civil War]], and [[w:World War I|World War I]] all had massive inflation and only nominal economic growth, and Roosevelt had exactly the opposite." 

Peck replied, {{quote|

My read is very similar to yours. I'm not an economist. I'm more of a media analyst, but I am fascinated with the history of the Great Depression. ... So many of the things FDR did helped lift people out of poverty.  And it is a very caricatured attempt to do this revisionist history, where they they frame the [[w:New Deal|New Deal]] as a failure. If it was such a failure, why did it dominate all the way from 1930 to all the way into the [[w:Richard Nixon|Nixon]] era? Even the Republicans like [[w:Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] adopted many of FDR's policies. [[w:Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] is from that legacy, and it's one of the most popular policies the government's ever done in United States history. ... 

While I focus on the tabloid elements of Fox News and the Populist style of the hosts, how they present themselves as like regular guys and everyday people, I don't want you to think that Fox News doesn't have intellectuals on. They do, and they platform their Right Wing think tank experts. And what I found so interesting is the way they could incorporate this Amity Shlaes, this economic historian, but present her research in an accessible way to the audience. 

So it's not so much that the Fox News audience doesn't want to participate in some elements of intellectual culture. In my last chapter I focus on the role of intellectuals and think tanks on Fox News and the way that Fox News platforms them and translates their work in very accessible ways. 

It would be great if you had something similar on the Left, where you both had a host that was really relatable to everyday people, non-college educated people, but then also brought in academics and experts and helped make their work more accessible.}}

=== Final words ===

When asked for closing comments, Peck replied, {{quote|

It's very interesting in the wake of a second Trump victory to see that I do believe there's a glimmer of hope that the progressive movement has finally woken up to the fact that they need to invest in Media. 

The question is, 'What's the media strategy itself?' [I worry] that with all this talk, finally, that okay, we need to create media to counter the conservative sphere, ... if we just do the same middle brow, professional class style, but just online or just on podcasting, it's not gonna work. ... We need to expand our stylistic repertoire that engages working class audiences of all ethnicities and genders. ... 

There are some hopeful signs where this kind of versioning of left progressive media right now on Youtube. And then also, the last thing is that the Republican party has supported alternative right wing media where the Democratic party shuns it up until now.

So there's a role that politicians, progressive politicians and activists can play to uplift and catapult alternative media by going on those shows. If you only go on ... the legacy media, you're doing a disservice.}}

== The need for media reform to improve democracy == 

This article is part of [[:category:Media reform to improve democracy]]. We describe here briefly the motivation for this series.

[[Great American Paradox|One major contributor to the dominant position of the US in the international political economy]] today may have been the [[w:Postal Service Act|US Postal Service Act of 1792]]. Under that act, newspapers were delivered up to 100 miles for a penny when first class postage was between 6 and 25 cents. [[w:Alexis de Tocqueville|Alexis de Tocqueville]], who visited the relatively young United States of America in 1831, wrote, “There is scarcely a hamlet that does not have its own newspaper.”<ref>Tocqueville (1835, p. 93).</ref> McChesney and Nichols estimated that these newspaper subsidies were roughly 0.21 percent of national income (Gross Domestic Project, GDP) in 1841.<ref>McChesney and Nichols (2010, pp. 310-311, note 88).</ref>

At that time, the US probably led the world by far in the number of independent newspaper publishers per capita or per million population. This encouraged literacy and limited political corruption, both of which contributed to making the US a leader in the rate of growth in average annual income (Gross Domestic Product, GDP, per capita). Corruption was also limited by the inability of a small number of publishers to dominate political discourse.

That began to change in the 1850s and 1860s with the introduction of high speed rotary presses, which increased the capital required to start a newspaper.<ref>John and Silberstein-Loeb (2015, p. 80).</ref>

In 1887 [[w:William Randolph Hearst|William Randolph Hearst]] took over management of his father’s ''[[w:San Francisco Examiner|San Francisco Examiner]]''. His success there gave him an appetite for building a newspaper chain. His 1895 purchase of the ''[[w:New York Morning Journal|New York Morning Journal]]'' gave him a second newspaper. By the mid-1920s, he owned 28 newspapers. Consolidation of ownership of the media became easier with the introduction of broadcasting and even easier with the Internet.<ref>John and Silberstein-Loeb (2015). See also Wikiversity, “[[Information is a public good: Designing experiments to improve government]]” and “[[:Category:Media reform to improve democracy]]“.</ref> [[:Category:Media reform to improve democracy|This consolidation seems to be increasing political polarization and violence worldwide]], threatening democracy itself.

=== The threat from loss of newspapers ===

A previous ''Media & Democracy'' interview with Arizona State University accounting professor Roger White on "[[Local newspapers limit malfeasance]]" describes problems that increase as the quality and quantity of news declines and ownership and control of the media become more highly concentrated: Major media too often deflect the public's attention from political corruption enabled by poor media. This too often contributes to other problems like [[w:Scapegoating|scapegoating]] [[w:Immigration|immigrants]] and attacking [[w:Diversity, equity, and inclusion|Diversity, equity, and inclusion]] (DEI) while also facilitating increases in pollution, the cost of borrowing, political polarization and violence, and decreases in workplace safety. More on this is included in other interviews in this ''Media & Democracy'' series available on Wikiversity under [[:Category:Media reform to improve democracy]].

An important quantitative analysis of the problems associated with deficiencies in news is Neff and Pickard (2024). They analyzed data on media funding and democracy in 33 countries. The US has been rated as a "flawed democracy" according to the [[w:Economist Democracy Index|Economist Democracy Index]] and spends substantially less per capita on media compared to the world's leading democracies in Scandinavia and Commonweath countries. They note that commercial media focus primarily on people with money, while publicly-funded media try harder to serve everyone. Public funding is more strongly correlated with democracy than private funding. This recommends increasing public funding for media as a means of strengthening democracy. See also "[[Information is a public good: Designing experiments to improve government]]".

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== Notes ==
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== Bibliography ==

* <!--Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (eds.; 2015) Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet (Oxford University Press)-->{{cite Q|Q131468166}}
* <!-- Robert W. McChesney; John Nichols (2010). The Death and Life of American Journalism (Bold Type Books) -->{{cite Q|Q104888067}}.
* <!--Anthony Nadler and Reece Peck (2025-03) "The Left Needs Media That Competes -- and wins", Jacobin-->{{cite Q|Q135514015}}
* <!--David Pakman and Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "How did UFC become a Trump MAGA cult?", David Packman Show-->{{cite Q|Q135526339}}
* <!--Reece Peck (2019) Fox populism: Branding conservatism as working class (Cambridge U. Pr.)-->{{cite Q|Q135513426}}
* <!--Reece Peck (2016) "Usurping the usable past: How Fox News remembered the Great Depression during the Great Recession", Journalism-->{{cite Q|Q135527962}}
* <!--Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "Reece Peck on Fox News’ blue-collar conservatism", Illiberalism Studies Program-->{{cite Q|Q135527916}}
* <!--Peck (2025-08-08) "More than money and algorithms: the cultural roots of Trump’s alt-media strategy", ''Communication, Culture, & Critique''-->{{cite Q|Q135514927}}
* <!--Reece Peck (2025-08-08) "Trump, UFC and the new conservative culture war", The Hill-->{{cite Q|Q135525388}}
* <!--Peck and Palos Pons (2025-08-08) "Left Populist Media Online: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S.’s The Young Turks and Spain’s La Base", Television & new media-->{{cite Q|Q135524218}}
* <!-- Amity Shlaes (2007)  The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression-->{{cite Q|Q7734832}}
* <!-- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835, 1840; trad. 2001) Democracy in America (trans. by Richard Heffner, 2001; New America Library) -->{{cite Q|Q112166602|publication-date=unset|author=Alexis de Tocqueville (1835, 1840; trad. 2001)}}

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