Did someone notice that I sold my Fox stock?
That’s the way the market works. CNN should have become FNC but they were too married to the liberal ideology, allowing the “Fair and Balanced” approach to become dominant. Nowadays the cynical might say the market has rejected “fair and balanced” in favor of polar extremes that cater to those who want an echo-chamber for their own views and don’t want to hear anything from the other side. There is certainly a lot to suggest this would be a winning business stragegy.
What doesn’t make sense is for yet another cable news outlet to align with the Left, CNN and MSNBC already have that turf staked-out and there’s no reason for FNC to go there. I think if they do it will be at their own peril and this kind of disruption is often what allows a new entrant such as OAN or what is discussed here to emerge. After all that’s how FNC got started...
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The problem is that the right doesn’t know how to create a brand to save their lives.
They will either give the network a cheesy name like “One America News”, Infowars, or “Glenn Beck TV”, fill it with too many sentimental stories instead of straight news, think that everyone in the audience is religious, put in too many commentary shows, err too much on the side of Alex Jones type presentations, put too many amateurs on-camera, or in Fox’s case, too many “hot girls” for eye candy.
Just look at European TV news openings. These are IDs and styles that make me think I’m getting a quality product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJH3bFzHM4
I have no idea what the hell most of the people are saying, but I’d rather watch this.
And how about going back to some more basic news presenter styles like they had in the past?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOlVEtMKSCc
(CBS Morning News, May 8, 1968)
Just as a business decision, moving Fox leftwards seems like a horrible idea. It would go from being one-of-a-kind to just one of the gaggle of leftist news sites.
Can anyone confirm the reliability of this source?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3548257/posts
We need a “balanced” network - these others should be sued by conservative employees who have been discriminated against.
Ah, yes, yet another example of the genetic spawn of a hard-working visionary, totally screwing up decades of immense productivity and brand-creation. Welcome to life as just another bunch of idiot, spoiled rich kids, Murdoch children.
If you make Fox into another PC, warm & fuzzy place, 90% of its viewership (including, I guarantee, ME) will just up and leave. Fox will then become just another network, toeing the current PC line with a bunch of pablum spewing from some nameless empty suits/dresses. IOW, just a commodity news operation - and how do you make money in an overcrowded industry by offering merely more of the same, by NOT distinguishing your products/services? Clearly, these idiot Murdoch children haven't the first clue as to how to run their father's media empire. I can't wait for another network to start up - but I'd really hope that it could be on the regular cable menu. I suppose that they'd really have to have a lot of high-powered talent, both behind the scenes and on the tube, and that will take a lot of money and time to set up the right way. Here, BTW, is a big hint for any new network: Make sure that when the news is being reported, it is ACTUALLY the news. Opinion will certainly be welcome...but be very open and upfront about what is opinion at the time it is being presented. Something like a big bold stripe at the bottom of the page with "COMMENTARY" inside of it, the way networks did in the 1960s and 70s. As for Fox, I have NO use for it without it actually being a purveyor of facts - facts as they ARE, not as a bunch of intolerant assholes who don't value our nation or adhere to our ideals WANT them to be. If the Murdoch infants do this, let it all go down in flames.
The piece struck fear into the minds of some Fox News’ hardcore conservatives with talk of the sons wanting to rid the company “of the old-guard culture on which their father built his empire” and bringing “a warmer and fuzzier workplace” that would move away from an “anti-politically correct environment.
Ah, yes, yet another example of the genetic spawn of a hard-working visionary, totally screwing up decades of immense productivity and brand-creation. Welcome to life as just another bunch of idiot, spoiled rich kids, Murdoch children.
If you make Fox into another PC, warm & fuzzy place, 90% of its viewership (including, I guarantee, ME) will just up and leave. Fox will then become just another network, toeing the current PC line with a bunch of pablum spewing from some nameless empty suits/dresses. IOW, just a commodity news operation - and how do you make money in an overcrowded industry by offering merely more of the same, by NOT distinguishing your products/services? Clearly, these idiot Murdoch children haven't the first clue as to how to run their father's media empire.
I can't wait for another network to start up - but I'd really hope that it could be on the regular cable menu. I suppose that they'd really have to have a lot of high-powered talent, both behind the scenes and on the tube, and that will take a lot of money and time to set up the right way.
Here, BTW, is a big hint for any new network: Make sure that when the news is being reported, it is ACTUALLY the news. Opinion will certainly be welcome...but be very open and upfront about what is opinion at the time it is being presented. Something like a big bold stripe at the bottom of the page with "COMMENTARY" inside of it, the way networks did in the 1960s and 70s.
As for Fox, I have NO use for it without it actually being a purveyor of facts - facts as they ARE, not as a bunch of intolerant assholes who don't value our nation or adhere to our ideals WANT them to be. If the Murdoch infants do this, let it all go down in flames.
I posted this on 4/19 on occasion of O’reilly’d firing:
Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, et al, should round up their pals, partner up with every conservative TV advertiser, host, director, producer, news reader, announcer, cameraman/woman, etc. etc., and start a REAL Conservative TV News Network!
As for me, FOX News will NEVER be allowed in my home again!
BOYCOTT THE MURDOCKS, FOX NEWS AND EVERY COMPANY THAT PULLED ITS O’REILLY ADVERTISING!
IF WE REAL CONSERVATIVES WORK TOGETHER, WE CAN BANKRUPT THE MURDOCKS, FOX NEWS AND EVERY ONE OF THEIR PUSILLANIMOUS ADVERTISERS!
THIS IS WAR!
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT CONSERVATIVE TV HOST TO FALL VICTIM TO THE LIEBERAL ESTABLISHMENT’S ODORIFEROUS LIES AND ACCUSATIONS?
HANNITY?
TUCKER?
WATTERS?
WHO?
What’s wrong with contributing money to a conservative channel that, already, exists: One America News Network? Are they ignoring OAN?
It’s not the names reading the news that attract viewers. It’s the honesty of the news coverage.
How about creating MANY pro-conservative TV channels/other non-leftist TV channels, and doing so, everywhere in the entire world? The demand for non-leftist TV channels has been ongoing, for many decades and counting!
I thought the headline said they were looking to form a new CONSERVATIVE cable channel...
Did you ever have a neighborhood restaurant that was popular and one you liked and frequented?
One that became successful by serving good food at fair prices backed up by a friendly atmosphere and excellent customer service?
Then one day a sign in the window said “Under New Management”.
The founders had passed the business on to their children who were full of new ideas and determined to improve the things they didn’t like.
The menu changed, the comfy home-style favorites were gone, prices went up while the quality of service went down. The remodeled decor and atmosphere were cold and impersonal.
And less than a year later the business closed and the building was vacant.
But just several blocks away a new restaurant had opened up and become a neighborhood success by serving good food at fair prices backed up by a friendly atmosphere and excellent customer service.
Why is it that CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CBS, NBC, and ABC can survive as very leftist TV news media in a country where nearly 50% of the residents have a conservative political viewpoint?
Why can’t a conservative TV news media prosper?
Conservative talk radio prospers, why not Conservative TV?
If more conservative is what they’re after, pro-abort Tomi Lahren isn’t the way to do it.
“Conservative Fat Cats” = the same old RINO enablers who have always been the problem.
Seriously? Why re-invent the wheel? Just invest the resources in OAN. They’re on the right track, established, and the audience is growing. Stupid to start from Square One for another network.