Posted on 03/18/2015 8:25:29 AM PDT by don-o
One America News, which launched patriotically on July 4, 2013, is something of an anomaly in the cable news universe. First of all, it's based in San Diego, California. The channel's news coverage is intended to be straight down the middle, even though its talk shows are pretty staunchly conservative. The network does not cover sports or pop culture news. Like Lahren, many of its news anchors and reporters are young. And for now, it airs no commercials. The network may want to emulate Fox's success, but it's taking a very different path to get there.
Robert and Charles Herring, the network's founders, envisioned it as an antidote to fluff-filled cable "news" shows. Charles Herring, the network's president, boasts that the channel broadcasts 21 hours of straight news a day.
"What we've noticed in the marketplace is, it's very hard to turn on your TV and find news around the clock. You get a lot of talk shows, a lot of debates, but just finding credible news is really difficult," Herring told National Journal. "The fundamental difference between us, MSNBC, CNN and Fox is we are dedicated to [being] a credible source of news."
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Will they hire all the fired MSNBC/CNN staff,LOL
So another GOPe news channel. One is enough.
. This won't clean up the content of the news but will make it easier to understand.
Any organization that looks at the news unfiltered, will have to see the abuses of the regime and the left and in short order appear to be slanted to the right, BY the left.
Fact of life.
I watched it a few times. Mainly during the Louisiana elections because they covered it more than Fox, CNN, or even the locals.
The news anchors were young, as noted. I mean really young. Probably in their 20s.
Didn’t see any overt bias. It’s probably what CNN and MSNBC thinks they are.
Merge this with The Naked News and I’ll watch ALL DAY.
Reminds me of a guy on tv who was a singer. This was years ago in the 70s. He was purported to be the guy who will replace the Beatles.
Can’t remember his name...
Well, I live in San Diego, and I’ve never heard of these people.
The best “news” is KUSI, an independent station. I most always turn to them for their 10pm news - which is just the news without political spin. And, they have the very best weather guy, Mark.
I may check them out on the internet and see if they can tell me where I can get their station. If this goes over well as a real source of news, KUSI might have to change a few things to compete.
Cute newsbabe moderating this segment covering Palestinians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJ9TC4gKzs
http://www.oann.com/
Seems informative and “un-narrative”.
Of course once advertising revenue becomes their dominant concern they’ll devolve into the same marketing oriented viewpoints as the others so enjoy their accurate news while it lasts.
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Reminds me of a guy on tv who was a singer. This was years ago in the 70s. He was purported to be the guy who will replace the Beatles.”
Could have been T Rex’s Marc Bolan. He was The Bomb back then. Get It On (bang a gong)...
Exactly. Trivia seems less scary than terror, but for undoing civilization -— and dooming souls -— it will do quite as much.
My wife started watching One America News recently because she wanted to get some straight news and needed a break from FOX, which has become pretty shrill at times. We watch Bill & Meghan Kelly most days, but I can only watch 2 hour-long FOX shows and these are it. If I watch Gretta, Bill, Meghan, AND Hannity, I get a case of commentator overload and feel like I’ve sat in the sun too long.
No. Can see him in my mind and almost remember the song that prob no one else ever heard. He and that song sank like a stone.
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