shorthand for disillsionment or dissatisfaction felt because of misleading mass media or political figures.
Akin to frustration, anger, confusion, etc felt when one is lied to/hoodwinked by a power figure in mass culture.
Word is derived from belief that mass culture should be constructive, not manipulative or deceptive.
"Who do you think you are going to vote for in '08?"
"I don't know, I feel flooded by all the misculture in those political ads"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)