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Joe Ricketts is launching a national news outlet based in Omaha
Omaha World Herald ^ | January 17, 2021 | Paul Hammel

Posted on 01/18/2021 5:58:50 AM PST by NEMDF

LINCOLN — Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Joe Ricketts is preparing another venture into the news business, and he’s chosen Omaha as his launching pad.

Ricketts is hiring staff to launch an online national news outlet called Straight Arrow News that he said will do what other outlets aren’t doing — providing news without a political slant.

(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: media; news; omaha; straightarrow; unbiased
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I hope this works out for him and for us. Certainly is needed!
1 posted on 01/18/2021 5:58:50 AM PST by NEMDF
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2 posted on 01/18/2021 6:03:16 AM PST by PGalt
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Ricketts is hiring staff to launch an online national news outlet called Straight Arrow News that he said will do what other outlets aren't doing

Whatever you do, DON'T hire anyone from the fake news media like Fox did when they started.
What conservatives really need is our own news agency to replace the AP and Reuters. At least for US News. We need to work on that.

3 posted on 01/18/2021 6:05:31 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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LOL to read article


4 posted on 01/18/2021 6:07:07 AM PST by PGalt
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Excellent!!!


5 posted on 01/18/2021 6:08:55 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (WHEN TYRANNY BECOMES LAW, REBELLION BECOMES DUTY 1-6-21, American Revolution II Began)
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To: NEMDF

Been Asse will subvert those plans for sure.


6 posted on 01/18/2021 6:11:45 AM PST by HighSierra5
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Does his son Pete have any connections with Hunter? Just askin.


7 posted on 01/18/2021 6:12:07 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Fox started out this way too.


8 posted on 01/18/2021 6:14:50 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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I would like to see a news outfit that staffs people who will hunt for the TRUTH, and follow that truth no matter who/what it leads to.


9 posted on 01/18/2021 6:21:10 AM PST by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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See, I posted many times that there are always investors that would smell the money and step into the void to take advantage. Expect this to be ongoing in the social media sphere.


10 posted on 01/18/2021 6:24:56 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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The issue with a news service like this is that there really isn’t a lot of news out there.

Imagine writing a news show about the US. What is national news? How much of it is there every day? And do the people on the East Coast care about a state or local news story from the West Coast.

Without breaking news, it gets pretty sparse. That is why the opinion folks are brought it. That is why they fill in the empty time with people “telling you what it all means.”

Headline News, when it first launched, used to do this in its half hour format, 24x7. If you notice now...it switches to Forensic Files at noon.

If there is nothing going on, and you are not expressing “opinion” about it...there is not much to watch.


11 posted on 01/18/2021 6:51:03 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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“The issue with a news service like this is that there really isn’t a lot of news out there.”

Yup. We noticed that with OAN. Although they have some wonderful investigative journalist (Chanel Rion, Jack Posobiec, Pearson Sharp), when it’s just regular news hours, it’s junk. Cows in India with some disease — things like that.

It’s hard to find interesting news, and even harder to find staff who won’t go political at some point.


12 posted on 01/18/2021 7:02:46 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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Okay...who is he and why is this important? Not chastising you....I really don’t know.


13 posted on 01/18/2021 7:04:29 AM PST by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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Steinbeck fella?


14 posted on 01/18/2021 7:06:00 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (/developement)
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Not a good name.


15 posted on 01/18/2021 7:06:18 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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"News without a political slant" doomed to fail. Conservatism is a political slant now. No one is going to point at this project and go, "Oooh, David Brinkley sure was a straight shooter. This show reminds me of ole David.". There are more people alive now that did not know of Nixon in real time than knew of Nixon.

What we want and what we need is probity, the asking of hard questions to elucidate the truth. Nearly impossible in today's cable environment.

The one thing is certain, Trump salted the ashes of legacy media.

16 posted on 01/18/2021 7:08:52 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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Will the Straight Arrow reporters come in quivers?


17 posted on 01/18/2021 7:09:39 AM PST by OwenKellogg (...if my people, who are called by my name...)
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He is the father of our GOP governor, Pete Ricketts. Their family owns or is part owner of the Chicago Cubs and/or Wrigley Field (I don’t remember the details). Joe Ricketts founded TD Ameritrade. I believe he’s a decent guy, from what I know.


18 posted on 01/18/2021 7:47:01 AM PST by NEMDF
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Will the Straight Arrow reporters come in quivers?

They would probably cause some quivers.


19 posted on 01/18/2021 7:52:55 AM PST by bubalooie
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Bent arrows are filing a claim of discrimination as we speak.


20 posted on 01/18/2021 8:45:03 AM PST by Bob434
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