Letter to the editor: Are Fox News personalities grooming their audience?

Grooming: You may have heard the term as it applies to children, but adults also can groom adults.

By definition, grooming is when someone builds a relationship, builds trust, an emotional connection with someone or a group of people, with the explicit intention to manipulate, exploit or use them in some way for personal or financial gain.

My question is: Do the on-air personalities at Fox News, such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, meet that definition? Do they groom their audience for their own personal gain? Are they abusing the trust of their audience for financial gain?

Are they misusing their talents and sacrificing their self-respect for unworthy or corrupt purposes by saying outlandish things that they do not believe and that they know are not true just to keep their ratings and their salaries up?

Are they groomers or just prostitutes? Well, you might want to leave that last line out, as it is insulting to prostitutes.

Suzie Morris

Stewart