For the time being, OAN is a bunch of unknown personalities (which is OK), but adding some star power would help expand its market share, and also diminish the standing of the Lamestream outlets more rapidly.
The more aggressive OAN is at enhancing its profile, the faster it will grow, because it has a very decent conservative (or at least non-liberal) thing going so far.
I'd be happy to settle for something even remotely resembling a balanced news outlet. It wouldn't have to be overtly conservative—just overtly pro-America and staunchly patriotic.
George Washington was doubtless right when he observed that political parties:
“are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”Washington went on to argue:
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”That's some pretty shrewd insight for a Founder who wasn't even considered an intellectual giant.
If we're honest about it, we should acknowledge that this can be true of either major party—Republicans or Democrats. I really do think that an era of post-partisan politics could be upon us, due to the Trump phenomenon. In any event, I certainly hope such attitudes begin to be more commonplace.