Posted on 12/05/2011 8:38:52 PM PST by Mozilla
Consider another media critic convinced.
Gabriel Sherman, a contributing editor at New York magazine who has spent many a word on Fox News, wrote a post for the magazine's Daily Intel blog Monday suggesting Fox has adopted a "new strategy" for 2012.
"Fox is trying to credibly capture the center without alienating its loyal core of rabid viewers. To this end, the network is flexing its news-gathering muscles in high-profile ways that will capture media attention," Sherman wrote.
Sherman is not the first media critic to make this claim. Howard Kurtz did so back in September after talking with network chairman Roger Ailes, and observing a Fox News debate in Orlando.
Kurtz wrote that Ailes has a series of anchors and correspondents -- like Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly -- who would fit in at any news network with their credentials and willingness to ask tough questions.
Sherman too sees the news side of Fox adopting a more pugnacious approach with the GOP candidates. While the prime time hosts continue to operate in their own universe, Baier conducted a widely praised interview with Mitt Romney, Wallace has peppered Michele Bachmann and the entire field was subject to a roaming New York Times reporter at Saturday's "candidates forum."
Like Kurtz, Sherman remains skeptical, particularly since he does not see this shift as a case of old-fashioned media objectivity. It's just another way of benefiting
Fox.
"2012 is shaping up to be the year that Ailes decided Fox will benefit if the political world recognizes that his network is willing to make GOP candidates sweat in front of their base. Like any good candidate, the network plans to tack toward the center for the general election," he wrote.
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When were they ever conservative in the first place?
Fox aliented me a long time ago.
Megyn Kelly is really cranky lately. I wonder why she seems so unhappy.
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Oh, they’re perpetually “conservative” and/or “right-wing” to the liberals. If they’re good for anything, they’re good for getting the libs’ blood pressure up.
To be neoconservative is close enough to being “right-wing” for the media.
“Is Fox News going centrist for 2012?”
DUH....
Soros won that battle...
Fox has been marginalized as a credible news source in America, and the Murdoch’s are under threat of indictment.
Soros said he’d “Get them” if they didn’t stop covering him. Have you heard a PEEP about Soros in the last few months on Fox?
What Saudi Prince Alwaleed wants, Fox does.
Well Since Glenn Beck left and since Rove’s attack on Christine O’Donnell there has been a influx of rinos on the channel. I think it depends on the show and format and topic and day. But I am more conservative than most on the channel, I can say that for sure. So I see Fox News moving a bit to the center or more rino.
It depends... the economy guy from FBN who is on The Five is pretty out there. He challenges Dana Perino a lot. His name is Eric Bolling. He used to do happy Hour. Then there is a few guests on Hannity. But I get the fact that it has lost its edge.
The market is wide open for a network that would be unabashedly after the truth (conservative) and just screw the “fair and balanced” thing. Truth is rarely fair and never balanced. It is truth, period.
Which is pure B/S. FOX News is officially in the tank for their establishment RINO (Romney) and is totally opposed to any conservative, especially tea party conservatives.
Karl Rove is particularly obnoxious.
Well, since the mid-terms last year, FoxNews has REALLY gotten in bed with Rove and the ‘establishment’ crowd... kicking the Tea Party to the curb, treating Palin like crap, dropping the border/illegals topic, and avoiding any ‘social’ conservative issues (like the NY gay-marriage dustup) like the plague.
I barely ever watch the channel anymore. No more than maybe an hour’s worth of programming in an entire month. I used to have it on all the time, practically like a default position on my tv-set, going back to its debut in ‘96. This year they totally lost me.
Megyn Kelly is really cranky lately. I wonder why she seems so unhappy.
We used to watch Neil Cavuto before we quit satellite feeds. Fox News has become as toxic as the rest of the propaganda venues.
FOX for the most part has lost me.
Megyn kelly attacking the shrink because she said it was harmful for kids to see chaz bono and then she outs on her homosexuals pals.
He has never been on as far as I know since
OR big mouth and know it all
Hannity is a phony as he never will talk about conservative social issues and would not take any vets call over don’t ask.
He is such a phony and yet takes money from those who think he is a conservative.
Geraldo, shep smith and then they put on the show called the five, OH PLEASE.
Perino, Tantatos who will not stand against her pal Beckel with conviction, and the idiot who think he is funny.
Only Bolling gives a decent view but gets shouted down all the time .
FOX is a joke even in the morning with kilmeade the establishment and what a immature pansy he is.
This is why FOX pompous is in full anxiety against our candidates FINALLY taking their debates outside of the mainstream hands to friendly venues. Rush was red hot on this subject today and he is absolutely right. We have been painfully aware that only Republican candidates are subjected to the pugnacious pundit debate scenarios run by those who want us to lose. This includes FOX debates, who try to curry favor with their competition to be seen treating our field like chopped liver. Enough!
You mean shamu?
Every time I see her with that sadfaced grin, I want to jump through the screen and punch it to the back of her head. YEARS now.
And now that fox has hired on john podesta, there is nowhere left to go.
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