
Former President Barack Obama appeared on a special interview broadcast Monday night with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Among a wide array of topics, the two discussed America’s continued reckoning with the problems of racism. Obama also discussed how right-wing media outlets would prefer to fan the flames of those racial tensions, as a means to mobilize a political constituency — and to make money while doing so — rather than being part of making the world better.
And while Obama did not point to any specific media actors by name, it should be very clear that Fox News has long been at the forefront of exactly the sort of bad behavior he was talking about.