Posted on 05/24/2021 3:00:59 PM PDT by Mozilla
As the two fringe cable TV outlets battle for former President Donald Trump’s affections, several high-profile One America News staffers have jumped ship to Newsmax—not just in pursuit of a larger audience, insiders said, but also as a respite from OAN’s increasing extremism.
Already known for its cartoonishly bonkers MAGA propagandizing, OAN in recent months has veered even further into unhinged right-wing territory. And Newsmax—which is often just as obsequiously pro-Trump in its commentary—has pulled back on its wildest election conspiracy theories while hoovering up some of OAN’s top on-air talent: news anchor Alex Salvi, correspondent Jenn Pellegrino, and reporter Amanda Brilhante. Those moves followed Newsmax poaching OAN’s White House correspondent Emerald Robinson last year.
Pellegrino, who served as a White House correspondent and on-air host for OAN, abruptly left the far-right channel earlier this month, only for Newsmax to announce her debut as co-anchor of a 9 p.m. ET program called Cortes and Pellegrino, co-hosted by former Trump campaign senior adviser Steve Cortes.
In late March, meanwhile, Salvi—one of OAN’s rare “straight news” anchors—revealed during his media-focused show After Hours that he was exiting the network after hosting since 2019. A few weeks later, Salvi quietly showed up on Newsmax, revealing his new role as a Rome-based foreign correspondent with the network. Brilhante, who’d been with OAN since graduating college in 2017, was hired away in February to be Newsmax’s breaking news reporter.
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“but also as a respite from OAN’s increasing extremism.”
...uh. yeah. ok.
I'm going to predict that it's the lower pay that is the primary, and probably only, reason for the moves.
Consider the source: Yahoo News, not widely known to be supportive of conservative philosophies.
Other than that, ‘Stars Bolting’ from one network to another is par for the course in media. Always a lot of horse trading going on when near the year of contract renewal.
far-left yahoo
no clicks for commies
Lol. Yahoo “news” complaining about bonkers journalists. You can’t make this up.
Yahoo News isn’t news.
I agree.
To any and all communist democrat controlled American tv news agencies, like Chris Ruddy and News Max, they attack OANN for being the top truth teller. OAN’s Pearson Sharp has recently exposed Chris Ruddy as a closet liberal democrat supporter and a fraud.
Second-hand from further-left Daily Beast, too.
Should have checked out One America’s Voice.
I don’t watch either one, nor any other news channels, anywhere, anytime. FR is my go-to place for what’s going on in the world.
This tells me I need to watch OAN more. If far left Yahoo is against them, then OAN must be reporting the truth.
“unhinged right-wing territory”
Yahoo is evil. Sad, since Yahoo is one of the old timers in Silicon Valley, like Excite, Lycos and Netscape. Marrisa Myers destroyed Yahoo.
OANN is great. Liz Wheeler now has a fine Youtube show. Today OANN talked about inflation caused by Biden. Lumber prices are up 300%. Yahoo does not care.
"Already known for its cartoonishly bonkers MAGA propagandizing..."
Never read "(CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC) known for its cartoonishly bonkers Russian Dossier propagandizing...".
I guess "cartoonishly bonkers" is a right wing mental illness now.
You’re not missing much. OAN is mostly a snoozefest and Newsmax is amateur hour.
To the authors:
How many cliches can you fit in one article?
Your style is not bright and breezy.
It is derivative and childish.
Havent watched sNewsmax since Lindell got dissed.
Unhinged Yahoos at Yahoo news. Yahoos fling poop, if you’ve ever read Gulliver’s 4th voyage.
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