Robert F. Kennedy Jr told HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps in an
interview Friday that he believes conservative media outlets such as Fox
News are damaging the country.
Asked how he thought things have changed in the political landscape,
Kennedy pointed to "big money" and "the right wing control of the
American media, starting with Fox News" as hurtful to collaboration
between differing political interests.
"Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox
News," Kennedy told HuffPost Live. "It's divided our country in a way
that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its
empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and
ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party
ideologues who control the Republican Party."
Kennedy, who is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
and attorney specializing in environmental law, also spoke about the
hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- and the health risks and
associated costs the practice represents for the country.
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