Angertainment 

Angertainment 

Welcome to the home page for angertainment.info

This website was created to help identify, define, and explain a specific segment of the contemporary mass media industry: angertainment.

Because of its origins, angertainment has been conflated with journalism and today is generally referenced as “right wing media” or "conservative media.” While there are some organizations such as the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, and in the digital sector, Bulwark; can be correctly described as journalistic enterprises, the great majority of the people and organizations who we think of as “right wing media” today are part of the angertainment industry.

As it has emerged as a force in American culture and, most significantly, in American politics, angertainment has matured and grown into a multi-billion-dollar business.

Our goal is to help people gain a better understanding of angertainment, how it works, how it profits from fear and outrage, and how it impacts them, their children, future generations of Americans, and the future of American democracy.

On this Website

Here is a guide to the main sections of this website.

Executive Summary

This summary was drafted by the Anthropic AI engine and lightly edited. The AI agent relied on the contents of this site to create its text.

The Angertainment Administration

This stand-alone essay discusses the capture of the current administration in Washington D.C. and the Republican Party by the angertainment industry.

Overview and Assertions

A page to survey the field of angertainment and to define the scope of our effort on this site to understand and explain it.

Nomenclature

An examination of the portmanteau “angertainment” and its components

Angertainment, Inc.

This page and the dozen or so subpages linked to it comprise the draft copy for a small book with the working title: Angertainment, Inc: The Profitable Business of Undermining American Democracy. These pages include a look at the historic roots of angertainment, sections on the evolution of angertainment (Angertainment 1.0, 1.9 & 3.0) and the parallel evolution of the Republican Party (1.0, 2.0 & 3.0). It considers the relationship between spectator sports and angertainment, and offers thoughts about how to blunt the impact of angertainment. 

Both Sides Do NOT Do It

A page created by the Anthropic AI agent using the content of the site addressing the idea that there is a “left wing” counterpart to angertainment.

AdverAngerTainment

(Under development.)

A section dedicated specifically to political advertising and fundraising and their contribution to political media pollution. This is, in fact, where "both sides" are functioning as angertainers. It is also an area where people who want to push back against angertainment can make a difference. 

Resources

(Under development; Your contributions will be appreciated.) 

A page listing several influential books related to angertainment and a list of useful links supplied by site visitors.

Note: The plan for this site includes the development of some form of comments or a forum that will allow interested people make suggestions for additions, deletions, or corrections. In the meantime, I am reachable at ridgek <at> gmail <dot> com. I would sincerely appreciate your constructive criticisms and recommendations for improvements.