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Michael Wolff: It's James Murdoch's Fox News Now
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | April 20, 2017 | Michael Wolff

Posted on 04/20/2017 10:07:29 AM PDT by C19fan

With the ouster of Roger Ailes and now Bill O’Reilly, Rupert Murdoch's son has overthrown his own network as he moves to reinvent the family company's profit machine at great risk.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: fox; foxnews; jamesmurdoch; liberalmedia; murdoch; oreillyout; trashtv
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Money quote:

Presumably, he meant the in-your-face world of conservative cable news with its mega personalities. Indeed, James regarded many of the people at Fox News as thuggish Neanderthals and said he was embarrassed to be in the same company with them.

Looks like the scion of Rupert is going to kill the golden goose. Imagine Shephard Smith types 24/7.

1 posted on 04/20/2017 10:07:29 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

He thoroughly deserves to lose his shirt.


2 posted on 04/20/2017 10:11:54 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: C19fan

Eurotrash. By this time next year, FOX will be totally indistinguishable from ABCNNBCBS............


3 posted on 04/20/2017 10:15:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: C19fan

There’s one idiot in every family. Still a great new opportunity when Fox tries to swing left into a crowded left of center field.


4 posted on 04/20/2017 10:17:32 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: C19fan

Now this…

James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn Murdoch is an outspoken leftist who works for the Clinton Climate Initiative.

Kathryn Murdoch hates Donald Trump and regularly trashes the president on Twitter.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/new-fox-news-james-murdochs-leftie-wife-works-clinton-climate-initiative-regularly-trashes-trump-twitter/


5 posted on 04/20/2017 10:19:15 AM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: C19fan

AH, MY EYES!!!


6 posted on 04/20/2017 10:23:14 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: C19fan

Well, FNC and its Business News had a good run, but like everything leftists touch, it will go to shit now.

What bothers me is there is no current right leaning main stream news outlet other than FNC.

Maybe it will create a vacuum for a company such as OANN to come in to fill that void and make billions while FNC fades into nothingness. If we’re lucky the good people at FNC will migrate over to the new company that takes FNC’s place. It will probably start as a trickle then a rush then a flood of those exiting the hobbled and sinking FNC (by that time). Then FNC will be nothing more than another in a sea of fake news outlets like CNN.

All because some spoiled entitled brat of the owner (Rupert) wasn’t raised right.


7 posted on 04/20/2017 10:26:57 AM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: Cicero

So...O’Reilly (closet Liberal) is replaced by Tucker Carlson (Conservative).

This is bad...how?


8 posted on 04/20/2017 10:27:44 AM PDT by Herodes
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To: C19fan
James’ dream, wherein he hopes to match his father’s accomplishments, and which he has been spinning for all who might listen for many years now, is of combining Sky News and Fox News with the vast Murdoch reach and producing some ultimate global news brand.

Where Fox News is parochial and America First, the new global brand is worldly and unlimited.

It will give his family’s company, once the pirate company, new meaning and new stature — a force for stability instead of upheaval.

Murdoch media, in an age of populist disruption, will stand for the established world order.


9 posted on 04/20/2017 10:29:53 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Herodes

It has nothing to do with BOR; it’s the trend and direction the far left james murdoch, the metrosexual, is planning on taking FNC.

The thing with BOR and Ailes are symptoms. They should have fought those ugly women into bankruptcy.


10 posted on 04/20/2017 10:40:56 AM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: C19fan

FOX and its ratings are going down. He is going to change into CNNFOX and its going to be liberal lies and trash.


11 posted on 04/20/2017 10:41:20 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Shakeup At Fox News – Bill O’Reilly Out, Broadcast Line-up Changes W/ Tucker Carlson Move to 8:00pm…

Posted on  by 

Rupert, Lachlan and James Murdoch have fired Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly who will not be returning to the network April 24th at the conclusion of his vacation.  Meh.

Fox News has announced the decision to move Tucker Carlson to the 8:00pm slot and shift their 5:00pm program “The Five” to the 9:00pm hour.   The centerpiece of the panel show, Eric Bolling, will remain at 5:00pm with his own hour long program.

Effective April 24th the line-up appears to look like this:

5:00pm – Eric Bolling
6:00pm – Brett Baier Special Reports
7:00pm – Martha MacCallum (temp 100 days)
8:00pm – Tucker Carlson
9:00pm – The Five
10:00pm – Sean Hannity

More than likely this line-up will not work long-term.

The Fox Show “The Five” is not ideologically aligned between Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. The Five show is fraught with inconsequential gnat banter and provides no substantive intellectual perspectives to warrant a prime-time following.

The 9:00pm hour will fail because gnat banter is shallow and solid prime-time political/consequential news requires newsworthy guests to discuss important topics and intellectual discussion.   Absent intelligent and stimulative guests, people tune out.  Roger Ailes knew this key and critical aspect of constructing political TV viewership.

No-one cares about the opinion of the “The Five” annoying gnats who collectively end up tuned out because their voices instinctively force the eardrum to protect itself and the broadcast ends up sounding like a round table of Charlie Brown’s teachers: “wauh, wauh, wauh”.  Additionally, everyone already knows the opinions and tastes of the cucumber and mayonnaise on wonder-bread punditry.

Wait,.. was that my outside voice?

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12 posted on 04/20/2017 10:42:10 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Cicero

He thoroughly deserves to lose his shirt.

And his drawers too. I hope the joint goes under. If I want to watch CNN I’ll watch CNN......not CNN-lite which is what this punk is going for.


13 posted on 04/20/2017 10:44:09 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Herodes

This is bad in the sense that one needs only accusations to bring down ANYONE (be he large or small). The left grew tired of being second place and vowed to make their voices heard. So flash, Bill a goner. Tucker and Hannity would be the next two on that list. FOX travels to the dark side; we watch in anticipation as they trip over their two left feet.

Choices for US are slipping. Now is the time for All Good Men to come to the aid of our country. OAN, Right Side, any ideas?


14 posted on 04/20/2017 10:48:24 AM PDT by V K Lee (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals - the Titanic)
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To: C19fan

What a complete a**hole! Pompous, elite and arrogant in his ignorance.
These two Murdoch are dismantling, diluting and destroying a very successful network, out of ‘Daddy-Envy’.
I keep waiting for a well monied conservative to start their own mostly conservative network. Whoever takes up the challenge, needs to know how to work the media. President Trump knows, but he’s got stuff to do for the next seven years.

One America News Network remains mostly invisible.
Nobody ever talks about what happens on this network.
Why? Because they don’t ever make the news.
That’s the easiest way to network dominance today; develop a brand or corporate personality that is vivid and instantly knowable. Mix in a few controversial interviews and quotations, add twitter and Facebook reactions to these quotations, shake, bake and exhibit.


15 posted on 04/20/2017 10:48:38 AM PDT by lee martell
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“as he moves to reinvent the family company’s profit machine at great risk.”

That is correct. Right now they pretty much have the Conservative market to themselves. Now going left they will be going after the same viewers as CNN, MSNBC and the others.


16 posted on 04/20/2017 10:56:55 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: V K Lee

“The Five” is a deadly bore for me and I usually don’t want to stay up must after 10 p.m. Although irritating, BOR could always be interesting. Megan could even be enjoyable, especially when she wasn’t running her personal jihad against DJT. These changes suck.


17 posted on 04/20/2017 11:02:57 AM PDT by libstripper (nd)
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To: Boomer

Yeah. I expect FBN to go down the crapper soon too. Everything libs touch turns to crap.


18 posted on 04/20/2017 11:08:59 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Boomer

“FNC will be nothing more than another in a sea of fake news outlets like CNN.”

FNC has never been a REAL news-gathering organization. They have almost no paid national or international correspondents. They’ve been enormously profitable with minimal expenses by pretending to be a news organization, when in fact they truly are nothing but a bunch of talking heads regurgitating news gathered by other organizations that had to pay to get that news.

However, FNC managed to compensate for the above slight-of-hand by attracting a loyal audience desperate for conservative viewpoints completely absent from all the other media. Without actual news, and without these nonconformist viewpoints, FNC ends up having nothing to offer their current audience, and no matter what FNC ends up doing, they will NEVER attract the Progs who lap up the slops at CNN and MSNBC.

James is nuking the one and only thing unique about FNC: a conservative viewpoint. FNC is dead, they just don’t know it yet.


19 posted on 04/20/2017 11:09:35 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: C19fan

Sometimes execs do stupid things. CBS cancelled The Beverly Hillbillies even though it was still highly rated because they didn’t like being associated with such lowbrow entertainment. They did the same with other “rural themed” shows.


20 posted on 04/20/2017 11:37:23 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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