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FOX News Course Correction Rankles Some (ya Think???)
Politico ^ | 02/14/12 | Keach Hagey

Posted on 02/14/2012 6:59:17 AM PST by pgkdan

As a white, male, middle-aged conservative talk radio host from Virginia, John Fredericks is something close to the Platonic ideal of a Fox News fan.

And until last year, he was one. But then Fox’s treatment of the Republican primary race — the presentation of Karl Rove as a political analyst despite his having “thrown in for Romney” and Sean Hannity’s clear ties to the Republican establishment — began to grate on him. So he changed the channel.

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The grumblers were picking up on a strategy that has been under way for some time — a “course correction,” as Fox chief Roger Ailes put it last fall — with the network distancing itself from the tea party cheerleading that characterized the first two years of President Barack Obama’s presidency. Lately, Fox has increasingly promoted its straight-news talent in the press and conducted some of the toughest interviews and debates of the Republican primary season. Just last week, it hired the openly gay liberal activist Sally Kohn as a contributor.

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To: pgkdan
Corrupt law enforcement regarding hacking?

That's my theory. That story has been pretty quiet lately and the time frames of the hacking and the move to the left overlap quite neatly.

61 posted on 02/14/2012 8:17:29 AM PST by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: pgkdan

Undoubtedly it’s homosexual ownership of large blocks of stock ~ probably the Saudis.


62 posted on 02/14/2012 8:18:59 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: pgkdan

Lately, it seems like there is a 50% of getting either Sally Kohn or Jehmu Greene on any given FNC show.


63 posted on 02/14/2012 8:21:30 AM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: ConservativeTeen

*50% chance


64 posted on 02/14/2012 8:23:55 AM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: pgkdan
I guess Ailes figured Fox News would have to "move to the middle" if they were ever going to catch up to CNN and MSNBC.
They had to try something.


65 posted on 02/14/2012 8:24:41 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: crz

[ I have been watching Fox Business News. Dobbs is a whole lot better than Smith and Freedom Watch comes on after.

I never thought I would ever say that Dobbs is better. But, after watching him on FBN, I can see that he was directed by CNN on what and how to report the news and that is why he got out. ]

I will miss the judge, but at least they still have stossel.


66 posted on 02/14/2012 8:26:15 AM PST by GraceG
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To: Lazamataz
Fox... news? What the heck is Fox News?

Free Republic for ever.

67 posted on 02/14/2012 8:26:59 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: pgkdan

Heck, I haven’t watched FNC since that Natalie Holloway crap.


68 posted on 02/14/2012 8:34:46 AM PST by Sloth (If a tax break counts as "spending" then every time I don't rob a bank should be a "deposit.")
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To: CaptainK

Apparently Fox rankles lots of freepers too.


69 posted on 02/14/2012 8:36:01 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: B Knotts
And get my favorite Fox News reporter: William LaJeunnesse, who seems to have disappeared.

He's my favorite too, and he actually covers stories west of the Mississippi and east of San Francisco--that vast flyover land that most reporters ignore. He hasn't disappeared from Fox--I saw him recently--but he's not on nearly as often as he used to be.


70 posted on 02/14/2012 8:38:09 AM PST by Cinnamontea
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To: pgkdan

Every time I see the smug, condescending face of Jehmu Greene on Fox, I’m reminded to change the channel. Sometimes CNN doesn’t seem so bad after all.


71 posted on 02/14/2012 8:38:41 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: pgkdan

Look past Ailes at Murdoch.

He is no conservative


72 posted on 02/14/2012 8:41:23 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: pgkdan
Fox became unwatchable during the 2008 election. That they ordered a blackout on Obama’s eligibility did it for me.

I am completely done with Fox. I pray that some enterprising individual will start a truly conservative, 24-hour, Internet-based, “TV” news station paid for by advertisements and free to the user.

73 posted on 02/14/2012 8:43:26 AM PST by wintertime (Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion centers.)
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To: GeronL

Bingo!


74 posted on 02/14/2012 8:43:58 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Bernard Marx
Every time I see the smug, condescending face of Jehmu Greene on Fox, I’m reminded to change the channel. Sometimes CNN doesn’t seem so bad after all.

I was watching Huckleberry's show this weekend and he had a segment with her and some other black liberal grading obama and SAntorum. Why bother?? I'm sick of seeing libs every time I turn on the station so I just won't watch anymore.

75 posted on 02/14/2012 8:45:56 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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To: Red Badger

Same here. We DVR Brett Baier and Greta. Usually watch all of the first and parts of the second.

This “course correction” explains, then, why Rosen did a piece on Brett’s program, a few weeks back, that was very sympathetic to Saul Alinsky. I kept waiting for the “however” part, but it never came. Almost fell off the couch.


76 posted on 02/14/2012 8:51:16 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: pgkdan

Agree with you completely! From reading the posts, it’s actually reassuring that I am not the only conservative who has turned off Fox. Like you, I will occasionally tune in to CNN.

Fox was successful because they filled a void. As they move to the left, the void will once again present itself for an ambitious entrepreneur. At least until entrepreneurs are outlawed.


77 posted on 02/14/2012 8:54:42 AM PST by juan_galt (De oppresso liber - Quien es Juan Galt?)
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To: Keith in Iowa

You’re not getting “news” from Fox these days either. I’m done with political news, so I watch CNN for the non-political news, and turn it off when they start “covering” politics.

Any more, political “news” is useless regardless of the channel. Those supported by MSM (and the past few years, Fox is included in that) are intolerable to me. Teevee news is mostly good for weather reports, traffic reports, and disasters. Everything else is pap and lies.


78 posted on 02/14/2012 8:56:52 AM PST by MizSterious (Now that Perry's out, I guess I'll just have to vote for "Generic Republican Candidate")
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To: winner3000

...what’s needed: a news network that would come in at the right of FOX.

^^^
I have often said that if Limbaugh was really concerned about the conservative cause that he would use his considerable fortune and influence to start such a network.


79 posted on 02/14/2012 8:56:52 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: longtermmemmory
Yes, I watch GBTV. It now has a 6:00 news hour that has just been added in the last few weeks. The news is much better than FOX new now. Used to watch FOX all the time, but I could see the left tilt beginning late last year, and can't watch anymore. So I started watching GBTV and it's pretty good for us Conservatives. It might have a little Libertarian slant to it sometimes, but way better than FOX. I get most of my news here, from RUSH, and GBTV. GBTV tells the truth and covers the tough stories unlike the rest of the media. It is the new evolution in the news industry replacing the hacks at CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and to a lesser degree FOX. I've thought for a long time that we needed a new way to get honest news, and I'm proud to be part of this solution to fixing this leftist media by being a charter member of the GBTV news. Oh, the GBTV is a lot better and easy to listen to than Glenn's radio program. I don't listen to his radio that much either, but the internet show at 4:00 PM and news at 6:00 PM is great.
80 posted on 02/14/2012 8:58:39 AM PST by CowboyinIL
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