Take a look at at this and you will see what I mean. They may be gaining the middle but they are losing the right and that includes me. I'm no longer a Faux News fan.
Posted on 02/06/2012 6:18:28 AM PST by tentmaker
Over the last decade, conservatives have enjoyed Fox News, a national news network which has given conservatives a fair shake and which has been willing to expose the bigotry of the establishment media towards conservatism. Yet there is the chance that Fox News, when owner Rupert Murdoch dies, may drift towards the lockstep leftism so characteristic of other news networks.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/if_fox_fails_us.html#ixzz1lbszR489
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We are always on defense. Every day it is a new assault by the left. We control the House, and accomplish nothing.
Take a look at at this and you will see what I mean. They may be gaining the middle but they are losing the right and that includes me. I'm no longer a Faux News fan.
Are there any Conservatives watching Fox anymore?
It is rather simple why Foxnew is so much in the tank for Romney. Foxnews Radio is mainly carried by the stations that are owned Clear Channel which in turn is owned by Bain Capital. At the end it is all about the money.
Fox News failed us years ago, when they called Florida for Gore before the polls in the Panhandle had even closed. They were the first network that night to make that call. Since that night, I stopped watching any of their evening programs or their election coverage. I only viewed Fox & Friends, and Megyn Kelly from time to time. For the past year or so however, I have stopped watching them completely. Like the rest of the cable news networks, they don’t exist to me. Everything I need to know can be found on FR.
Where has this guy been the last year or so? Foxney News has already made the left hand turn. I can hardly bear to watch it. We get 80% of our news on the internet.
TV news is about making money for the business’ owners. If Fox were to become stridently conservative, watchers would disappear and money would be lost. That would mean no Fox at all. Keep your perspective.
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It would seem that a Tea-Party oriented news channel would be an instant winner. I am frankly surprised that some rich conservative has not already launched one.
Of course, the advertisers on that channel would be instantly excoriated by the Left, some to the point where they wouldn’t advertise at all.
I still think it would work, and work well.
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I agree. And advertisers on talk radio get excoriated by the left, but they still make billions of dollars from those of us on the right! :-)
The minute that Juan Williams appeared on Fox, the move toward the left became terminal.
Now, all of the morning shows are “twiterpated” with Romney, liberal causes and all means of supporting non-patriotic issues.
Over the past months, I no longer watch it on TV. On the internet I still read some reports and articles.
The cancer of Political Correctness has finally killed out last source of conservative and REAL unbiased news.
RIP Fox News.
They have already failed us carrying Romney’s water...
but the key is Roger Ailes...Murdoch hired him is all
Ailes has a hands off 100% deal with Murdoch...completely and Rupert has no desire to upset the cash cow
now Rupert’s kids are all liberals by our standards...some are very very liberal and Wendy is a lefty too
it’s grim...they could fire Ailes as well and he won’t live forever
but given as how I watch less of FOX now..it means less to me than ever
shame an actual conservative does not own a network
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TV news is about making money for the business’ owners. If Fox were to become stridently conservative, watchers would disappear and money would be lost. That would mean no Fox at all. Keep your perspective.
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Your first statement is certainly true, but I’m not sure I agree with the rest of your perspective... After all, Fox News exploded in popularity precisely *because* it included the conservative viewpoint as part of its news coverage, which in turn drew the patronage of millions of displaced conservative viewerss who for so long had felt alienated and frustrated with the left-wing bias on all the other “news” networks. I think the Fox News channel would be wise not to curtail it’s appeal to conservatives if it wishes to maintain its stronghold as the #1 TV news outlet.
Failure is in the eye of the beholder ....I dont see it .....there are plenty if voices on Fox.
Greetings dagogo redux:
Oddly enough, when the TV/VHS set died in 2010, I didn’t miss the leftward drift of FoxsNooze Whoreraldo, O’Reilly, the SanFransicko Mayor divorcee chick, etc. enough to replace my TV.
My Glenn Beck fix used to come from watchglennbeck.com, but after FoxsNooze and Beck parted; filled time with more websurfing, book reading, talk-radio listening, outdoors enjoyment, etc.
Although now a GBTV subscriber, I’m much too busy websurfing, book reading, talk-radio listening, outdoors enjoyment, ect. to even watch GBTV.
Cheers,
OLA
The Murdoch family owns between 35-40% of Newscorp stock.
Kingdom Holdings owns 7%
They are second largest stockholder but by a very large margin and have no director slots of note.
The Saudi company also owns nice blocks in the following:
Amazon
AOL/Time Warner
Apple Inc.
Canary Wharf
Citigroup
Coca Cola
Compaq
Disneyland Paris
eBay
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Ford
Hotel George V, Paris
Hewlett-Packard
McDonald's
Motorola
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
News Corporation
PepsiCo
Priceline.com Inc
Procter & Gamble
The Walt Disney Company
Twitter[5]
I'm not sure how political they are but for folks living in tents before oil just a few generations ago they have sure learned to appreciate money rather fast.
Fox News is really horrible.
But its way better than the second best news.
Sorry, mass55th:
You’re mistaken. It was Fox’s 2000 election’s news coverage NOT calling Florida for AlGore is why I began watching FoxsNooze.
OLA
Think way out of the box for a moment...
The framework is their regardless of how you think of him i.e. Glenn Beck and GBTV.
All he needs is Oprah to fail and he picks up her network and channel at chapter 11 prices as her rating continue to slide.
He needs to have capital handy when she falls on her agenda driven backside.
The Schadenfreude moment of that if it ever occurred would be delicious beyond belief...
Don't get your hopes up with the internet. I'm sure the government and the left will find a way to totally take over and control it. Free Republic will be one of the first on the list of removals by those commies.
Soros made him an "offer he couldn't refuse"?
Well, I think they acquired and honed their bargaining skills a long time ago, ripping off caravans needing drinking water, and dealing in slaves.
At any rate,they are clearly enemies of western civilization (also eastern Civilization and any others that might be out there.)
Wher can you get information on who holds interest in what businesses?
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