Posted on 01/04/2008 7:18:09 AM PST by omega4179
Sean Hannity, the conservative Republican commentator who takes on such controversial issues as Hillary Clinton's legal work in a communist law firm, could be on his way out of the Fox News Channel as a result of Rupert Murdoch's decision to turn the company over to his liberal son James.
James Murdoch, 34, who buys into global warming hysteria, has in recent days been labeled the "News Corporation Heir" and "Son King" because of changes in the company that have dramatically increased his power. The Fox News Channel is one part of Murdoch's News Corporation.
While James Murdoch is based in London and is now being given control of News Corp's business in Europe and Asia, he is scheduled to take control of U.S. operations when Peter Chernin, the president of News Corporation who is based in New York, steps down. Chernin is himself a prominent Democrat.
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If so, someone else will just have to step up to fill the vacuum. Do you really think another liberal cable news channel will be viable?
Exactly, as long as there is a free market.
Fox News already as a corporation buys into Global Warming. Hence their radio spots reminding you not to water your grass, &c.
I’ve never been a big Hannity fan- but this is frightening..
From the article:
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The Hillary front organization known as Media Matters has challenged Murdoch to rein in the various Fox News personalities, including Hannity, who have voiced skepticism about the man-made global warming theory. The group complains that conservative voices on Fox far outnumber “progressive” voices and that Fox anchors, reporters, and guests inject pro-Republican views into the shows.
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I say let the Free Market decide. These TV & Radio “Personalities” are a business entity unto themselves...if they’ve done it right and haven’t sold the rights to their “name” to anyone. If they have, then they’re fools.
I won’t lose any sleep over this. I’m intelligent enough to know a BS news story when I read or hear one on ANY news channel. :)
Has media matters said the opposite to CNN,MSNBC? Nope. Hitlery founded media matters and Rush has tape of her claiming it to be so.
Supply demand. There are only so many liberals in the world. Creates a space for a new or several new organizations to spring up and grow. Let’s not be whining victims like the Dims. We are all about self initiative and business growth etc. We can just place our time and money with the organizations and voices that represent our points of view. If Fox zooms into CNN then fine, that limits their audience and we go on to the conservative voices that are there and support new ones. Simple. Give ‘em the finger.
Another liberal news network makes no sense.
That is what is so funny about CNN, PMSNBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NBC,Bloomberg and NPR all fighting for a piece of the ratings pie from a very narrow and dimnished number of liberal news watchers.
Truth be known those who identify themselves as liberals have other things to do like going to Starbucks rather than spending time being propagandized by a biased media.
If Fox gets rid of it’s conservatives then it will also join the pool of also rans fighting for a further reduced fan base.
If they replace conservatives with liberals, the network will go the way of Air America.
I look forward to liberals losing money for liberal establishments.
Dinosaur Media Deathwatch(TM) notices are coming!
I think I know why billionaires turn Liberal.
They suddenly find themselves in the heady upper air where not many of us common folk breathe out carbon dioxide. The slimebags who are aiming at taking over the United States and making it a province of the U.N. welcome the billionaire with toots and whistles and parties and such.
He thinks “Wow! Now I’m one of them. And now, to my wealth I can add power!” (because “they” control the mainstream media, the universities, entertainment, and are now slowly wrapping their tentacles around the churches.
The temptation of power is too heady a mix for the billionaire to resist.
Me too, and WRKO is all but useless now.
Do some freepers think that another national major conservative cable network is going to appear out of thin air and be immediately up-and-running to balance the soon-to-be total liberal stranglehold on TV news and entertainment? Who has the money to finance a new network other than other liberal individuals and conglomerates?
Wishing won't make it so.
Maybe now we're being to get an inkling as to why "conservatives" such as Barnes, Brit and others have been embracing little bits of liberalism here and there for quite a while now.
Yesterday's and last night's election threads were loaded with reference to Fox's biased reporting.....and the outraged posters were absolutely correct.
Taken all together, the gradual change on Fox is now beginning to make sense, doesn't it!
The ingratiation directed at Junior Murdoch is begun!
Leni
When I get up in the morning, the first thing I normally do is turn on FOX. I turned FOX off yesterday morning after John Harris from Politico was on and haven’t turned it back on since then.
I’d already cut off all of their prime time shows, as well as Shep at 3 and 7, but yesterday was the final straw.
I’ve never watched America Idol. I couldn’t possibly care less about stuff like that.
FOX dumbed down to the celebrity and entertainment watchers a long time ago.
It will probably be back to CSpan for me, which is what I always watched before FOX.
I agree and did notice that. And even O’Reilly recently said we can do “common sense” things on global warming, as if Humankind controls the planetary temperature.
Well I have been a fox fan for years. I will be lost if they go all the way to the left. First thing I do in the morning is watch Fox News. I keep it on all day at work. I do not like Shep at all and there are some others I do not like, but last night the CNN props were better than FNC.
I like SEAN and don’t want him to leave but his type of anger is not going to make it in today’s world. Last night shows us that their is a tide changing... and it will be a blow out in November for the dims. Guess I will start working out more and sitting less.... and then their is xm radio so I can listen to music, but it is going to be a long long long dry spell .... IMHO
Murdoch’s son will do for Fox News what Punch Sulzberger’s son (Pinch) did for the NY Slimes. Destroy it.
A lot of freepers got rid of TV over a decade ago, and discount the notion that it will continue to be a player in the long term for news. Younger freepers tend to see TV as for entertainment, Computers as for information. Come to think of it, how and why did you wind up here?
I bought a Sony CDP101 CD player in January of 1983. Five years later you could hardly find Vinyl - though there is a specialty market to this day. I bought a Rio MP3 player in 1998 those took quite a bit longer to supplant cassette walkmans, but it happened.
TV news was around a long time, and is entrenched. But it is hopelessly outclassed with regard to features, depth, focus, convenience, and just about any criteria you can come up with. It continues through inertia, but in 15 years it will be like trying to find a new pulley for my old Akai 10 inch reel to reel. Pretty much gone
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