Two weeks ago Tucker Carlson received canned, I talked with Abugazal and five of her colleagues in the media in their office of the Military Fleet with a view of the Anastilies River to see how they watch the evening line of Fox News. The space is huge, with open places and large conference – and very few employees. (Most of the team worked from the house since the beginning of the pandemic.)
The blonde, blue -eyed and miniature, Abugazale can easily go after one of the conversational heads of Fox News. Indeed, Abugazal has a pretty good idea of what will be required for her to become a favorite right on one of the shows that she controls daily. “The wound on the culture of cancellation on Twitter, do a little 'I stand with JK Rowling“Twist, aggravate him again and again,” she said, “complain, wash and repeat.
“It is so simple, and there is so much money in it, so so many people do it,” she continued. “All you need to do is whine and be a little racist. To be clear, I would prefer to pull my eyes out. ”
Abugazale joked that she was born to be a “conservative sleeping agent.” She grew up in the “good” in the field of Dallas and attended private schools before her second school. Her father-Palestinian immigrant, and she is the seventh generation on the side of her mother. Their conservative family regularly tuned in Fox News.
As a child, Abugazale also watched her maternal grandmother – A longtime participant From the Texas Federation of Republican Women – work on several campaigns of the Republican Party and listened to its luminous descriptions of the ideology of the party. (After the death of her grandmother Abugazale inherited a mink coat that she wore for the inauguration of President Nixon.)
Abugazale was a republican to her teenagers. In those years, she attributes her progressive political awakening to move to Tuson, Arizona. “At least half of my high school was with low income or unregistered,” she says. “The myth of the initial load just crashed before my eyes.”
She studied at the University of George Washington in Washington, the district of Colombia, during the years of stay as Donald Trump, specializing in international security in addition to studying journalism. After graduation in 2020, she said: “I wanted to work for an organization that corresponds to a good mission, the mission that I believed in, and I did not want to work somewhere, what would be just a job – I wanted to take care of what I am doing.” The position in Media Matters was perfect for her.
The media matters Describes himself As a “progressive research and information center”, dedicated to “comprehensive monitoring, analysis and correction of conservative disinformation in the American media.” The cost of the group’s website archives from television shows and online broadcasts that it uses to track false narratives or attract attention to how certain problems are considered.
Part of the work of Abugazale is to pull out the television clips of Fox News Moments from her assigned shows and send the transcript to her colleagues so that they can track what is said on a wide range of topics on the cable news channel.
Unlike some of its colleagues who use several working monitors, Abugazale does all his work on the laptop. It turns from one tab to another with lightning speed, sending emails, publishing clips on Twitter and shooting people in its references.
In the evening I watched her at work, one of the first segments that she grabbed was Carlson “Wildly racist pompous speech“On the state policy of Tennessee, Justin Parson.“ You're here for a fun night, ”she said, exporting a clip from the first monologue of Carlson.“ He has strong things – he has normal today. ”
Media employees are sometimes criticized for platforming problem content, publishing clips from Fox News. Abugazale sees this in the other way. “Fox is the view of cable news in the country,” Abugazale said. “They already had a platform. And just allowing them to get from Scot Free, it inflicts more damage than helps. ”
