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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The only halfway decent show on Fox is on Fox Business and it is Freedom Watch, everything else is turning to suck.
Ever see her attack the Do the shrink over what he wrote on Chaz Bono?
It was one of the most disgusting attacks I have seen .
She then brings on her pals the homo women who makes stupid faces all the time, the bloggers who are nothing.
Since she got her show she has had the power go to her head and her cross dressing homosexual views are not the norm even if she thinks her Manhattan cocktail party pals are.
She has become cranky and I can’t stand her now and neevr watch her.
Yes. Karl Rove is the worst. I can’t stand him. Yet he is only nearly all the show so I turn it off I dump into him.
You know what I don’t see Keith Ablow much since Glenn Beck left. Ablow joined Fox Mews in 07 when he was discussing a book on Fox and Friends. Ablow used to get into arguments with Dr. Robi Ludwig who used to be his counterpoint. Now Ablow is rarely on. I didn’t see the show where Megyn got unhappy at him, but that might have been when he decided to be on less or left the channel.
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?
Nonsense. Just gibber jabber. Don't hold your breath waiting for those indictments.
I have a recommendation for all of you: DO NOT WATCH TV, as it drains the human spirit. It renders us passive. When we read a book or the internet, we are in control. As soon as the subject wanes in our interest, we move on. But TV takes us where IT wants to go: it numbs us.
The Morning Call? Bleh. It is a left wing rag that is now 70% ads in their 4 page paper. No matter what they report, it is wrong. No matter what.
GBy the way...Glenn beck wrote a Book with Dr. Ablow. They seemed to have hit it off since beck started in 2009. because over the next 2 and a half years Keith Albow was on Beck’s show a lot. But Beck quit talking with Michele Malkin after a spat on air on his radio show. Following that beck rarely had political analysts, bloggers and others like that on his TV show.
Megyn Kelly is Fox News’ Nancy Grace.
Yes, Jemian something!
Faux has so many in the tank anti-TEA Party, anti-Conservative peeps that I watch Fox Business Channel and usually only Hannity, Greta (if I like her guest) and Neil Cavuto.
I also watch Bret Baier for the news, but I’m mad by the time his panel of snobs ends his program!
Greta’s guest tonight was that anti-Conservative, anti-TEA Party, Karl Rove, so I immediately changed the channel.
“The market is wide open for a network that would be unabashedly after the truth (conservative) and just screw the “fair and balanced” thing.”
If you believe that to be true, you should start your own news network.
jehmu greene
Always have been with the center left.
I can’t watch it anymore. Used to like watching Beck, Stossel and the Judge. Beck is gone, rarely have Stossel on and the Judge is a 24-7 Ron Paul commercial.
Fox only seems conservative in comparison the the MSM. To me Fox is left of center.
Yeah. What a hateful, unbearable female.
I have turned off ALL tv news, including FOX. I haven’t willingly watched a news broadcast since 9/11/2001. I don’t read newspapers, “newsmagazines,” or any talk shows. My newspaper is FR. If it’s not on FR, I don’t read it.
She has hinted more than once that she is “liberal on some things”.
Fox has become CNN. CNN has become MSNBC. MSNBC has become Linda Blair. ABC, CBS, NBC have become Opra.
They used to have news casters in Biblical times. They called them “false prophets” and were supposed to take them out to the city gates and stone them to death.
I have turned off ALL tv news, including FOX. I haven’t willingly watched a news broadcast since 9/11/2001. I don’t read newspapers, “newsmagazines,” or any talk shows. My newspaper is FR. If it’s not on FR, I don’t read it.
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