They had to try something.
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.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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.
Undoubtedly it’s homosexual ownership of large blocks of stock ~ probably the Saudis.
Lately, it seems like there is a 50% of getting either Sally Kohn or Jehmu Greene on any given FNC show.
*50% chance
[ 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.
Free Republic for ever.
Heck, I haven’t watched FNC since that Natalie Holloway crap.
Apparently Fox rankles lots of freepers too.
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.
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.
Look past Ailes at Murdoch.
He is no conservative
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.
Bingo!
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.
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.
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.
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.
...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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.