Sorry, I can’t stop ruminating. Let’s imagine that Murdoch and sons want to push out a lot of the current lineup and make the place over into a WSJ-like news organization. The path is not hard to imagine:
* upgrade 5-7 faces from the WSJ (e.g., Kimberly Strassel, Gerard Baker, Karl Rove) and the National Review (Andrew McCarthy)
* Bring back Chris Wallace, Megyn Kelly and perhaps one other former Fox “star”
* Seriously upgrade Maria Bartiromo who is by far the classiest and best of the remaining talking heads
* Give more air time to Britt Hume, Juan Williams and a few others already on staff
* Bring in 2-3 folks like the Hoover Institute’s Peter Robinson for weekly shows (he does Uncommon Wisdom, which is G-R-E-A-T)
* Recruit away 1-2 other RINO news personalities from other networks
I think they can push out the current Fox lineup almost entirely, fix these replacements and voila, a new brand going into the fall of 2023.
Fox News… the new CNN