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Trump-friendly Newsmax a sudden competitor to Fox News
Las Vegas Sun ^ | November 18, 2020 | David Bauder

Posted on 11/18/2020 10:18:52 PM PST by DoodleBob

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To: be-baw
be-baw: "I like a couple of shows on Newsmax but the production quality of their shows ain’t all that great."

Right, that's their first biggest problem.

be-baw: "I know a lot of folks here are all bent out of shape by how Fox’s election coverage on network was awful (it was)."

Fox's motto was always "fair and balanced".
They are "fair" to conservatives in the early morning and prime time evenings.
They are "balanced" with Democrats during the day.
On election night they brought out their "balanced" people and put the "fair"-to-conservatives in the background.

The result was a great "high" in ratings election night, but now post-election ratings hangovers from p*ss*ng off their most loyal conservative viewers.
Fox could still win them back, but not by focussing on "president-elect Biden."

be-baw: "Many if not most who are currently boycotting Fox will be back. You watch."

Sure, because production values and interesting contributors count for a lot.
Until their competition begins to measure up, Fox will still lead.

41 posted on 11/19/2020 6:55:29 AM PST by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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To: BroJoeK

Excellent analysis.


42 posted on 11/19/2020 8:54:04 AM PST by be-baw
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To: be-baw

not us- fox had been going very liberal before the election, and we had considered dropping it at that point- but then the election happened and wow- that was it- Their polls suck, their reporting is false and liberally biased for the most part- they have infested the station with rabid nasty liberals, they won’t allow criticism of soros, or blm except by only a select few people like tucker- they have canned good people like trish reagan, punished people like judge jennine, and many other folks who simply state the truth

Fox is now in the business of suppressing the news- they have gone nearly full on swamp- and are just barely hanging on by keeping around folks like tucker, hannity etc-

We began wwatching fox when they too were fresh and wet behind the ears- they were not polished yet either- but we stuck with them because they were pretty rock solid conservative- Sadly that has changed, so now we’re gonna support a news station that is starting off like fox used to be-
We don’t mind the less than perfect professionalism of the station- just as we didn’t wwhen fox started -and are looking forward actually to going through the ‘growing pains’ that they will face along the way AS LONG AS they remain rock solid conservative, and don’t begin hiring peoplel ike donna brazil, juan williams, marie harf, cavuto etc-Having folks like that on as occasional guests is one thing, but when you begin populating the network with them- then nope- We’re not gonna support- We don’t ant CNN lite

I certainly won’t criticism anyone for watching folks like tucker- but as for us, we choose to help support newsmax exclusively


43 posted on 11/19/2020 9:25:15 AM PST by Bob434
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To: OKITRUMP77

yep we will to- we supported fox when they were going through their metamorphosis to a polished network- and we’ll do the same with newsmax


44 posted on 11/19/2020 9:26:41 AM PST by Bob434
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To: 5th MEB

I lived in Las Vegas over 15 years. Calling the Sun a newspaper was/is abusing the definition. This was before the internet changed the traditional brick and mortar concept. The Sun was owned by a family of Clinton lovers. The Sun had a couple of “reporters”. They had no production or distribution systems. Imagine a newspaper without any printing presses. They contracted those operations with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The real newspaper. The Sun had lost most of their subscribers and advertisers over time.
The local free weekly shopper probably better.


45 posted on 11/19/2020 10:09:12 AM PST by hdstmf
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To: Bob434

Fox saw the market for a conservative news media. It was tough to fight the lame steam media, but they won that battle. They are now becoming part of LSM. Hiring the ultra liberals is a BIG mistake. Newsmax may pick up the challenge.
It may be some other low budget outfit that emerges. No matter. We are just starting to look for replacement of Fox.


46 posted on 11/19/2020 10:53:37 AM PST by hdstmf
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To: Atticus

The phrase “largely non-existent voter fraud” sounds s lot like “mostly peaceful protest.”

I’m trying to think of something that is NOT, “largely non-existent”. I, for instance, have what I consider a very comfortable means of living but my FORTUNE is largely nonexistent, I live on eight acres which sounds like a large estate to many people but my vast land holdings are LARGELY nonexistent. I have run several small businesses one of which was my sole support for twenty years but my history in business is largely nonexistent when compared to many people I know personally, not to mention those you see on TV.


47 posted on 11/19/2020 11:47:46 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: princeofdarkness

Yes, they did exactly that.


48 posted on 11/19/2020 11:48:32 AM PST by RipSawyer
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