News Summary

• Frida Ghitis: It is impossible to overstate the damage to American political culture of a rising right-wing media ecosystem, centered on Fox News.
• She says the channeling, while hardly monolithic, has worked overwhelmingly to the advantage of the authoritarian right wing.
• Ghitis says the most important feature of the media landscape today is the endless, flowing river of money down to the oligarchic power of the Murdochs and Rupert Murdochs.
• This can take the public involvement from informing the public from its fundamental mission, she says.