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.
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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.
LOL to read article
Excellent!!!
Been Asse will subvert those plans for sure.
Does his son Pete have any connections with Hunter? Just askin.
Fox started out this way too.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Okay...who is he and why is this important? Not chastising you....I really don’t know.
Steinbeck fella?
Not a good name.
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.
Will the Straight Arrow reporters come in quivers?
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.
Will the Straight Arrow reporters come in quivers?
They would probably cause some quivers.
Bent arrows are filing a claim of discrimination as we speak.
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