Maria has been excellent all through RussiaGate. Even if I watched Fox regulatory, which I don’t, I would have to wonder what is up with a network that is always firing/laying/off/having talent quit like nowhere else I’ve ever seen. It tells me that the powers that be have problems, not so much the on-air talent. Bottom-Line—Fox is poorly run. Murdochs are all nuts.
“I would have to wonder what is up with a network that is always firing/laying/off/having talent quit like nowhere else I’ve ever seen.”
Here’s a theory. There are two major liberal cable news networks (CNN and MSNBC). There is one moderate to conservative network (Fox). There appears to be an alliance between the two liberal networks and the DNC plus the entrenched federal bureaucracy, particularly the intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Fox has the largest viewer audience (larger than CNN + MSNBC in many time slots). Given the low viewership of MSNBC and CNN, the liberal Murchochs might prefer to shift the network positioning to the left, but there aren’t enough viewers to support 3 networks on the left. Therefore the Murchochs, much like the moderate globalist Republican party establishment, is stuck with a conservative audience they don’t like, and perhaps even hate.
In a truly free market, the biggest network from a viewership perspective would enjoy the highest advertising rates and the best advertisers. Yet strangely, that isn’t’ the case with Fox. While MSNBC and CNN fill their commercial time with ads from Big Pharma, Big Defense Contractors, the auto companies, and the premier consumer products companies, Fox’s ad time is filled with the pillow guy, old celebrities pitching medicare insurance schemes, and other lower tier advertisers. Why? Could it be the premier companies have been told by power Democrat politicians, and powerful regulators inside the bureaucracy, not to spend ad dollars on Fox? Could it there is an implicit understanding between the Murdochs and the left that the “conservative” network can exist but if personalities on the network are considered to causing damage, the Murdochs will pull them off the air?
The days of Rupert Murdoch giving Roger Ailes a free reign in running the network are over. Rupert has turned management of the network over to his children. The turnover in talent, and frequent adjustment of message, suggest either the Murdoch kids don’t have a clear strategy for the business or they are responding to pressure from outside forces.