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To: LeonardFMason

In a few years, OAN will overtake Fox in ratings. They have vastly superior presenters.
Fox is great with their prime time hosts yes, but the rest of them like Missy Chrissy Wallace are garbage.


10 posted on 09/30/2020 6:58:30 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (synopsis)
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To: SmokingJoe

Fox started it had a conservative fair coverage. Ratings took off, then to increase ratings further it has to expand its audience by heading toward the middle. Once all the conservatives had move to Fox for news and away from the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world. They have to move to the middle to increase market share.

But the progression of things is Newspaper, Radio, TV, Cable, now Internet is the future.


12 posted on 09/30/2020 7:27:25 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: SmokingJoe; LeonardFMason
15. With 4-5 exceptions, Fox is CNN.

BINGO!!!!

8 posted on 9/30/2020, 9:48:20 AM by LeonardFMason

In a few years, OAN will overtake Fox in ratings. They have vastly superior presenters.
IMHO there is a deep problem in journalism which better presenters cannot fix.

The business of journalism is to attract attention, and journalism attracts attention with bad news.

Once the topic is bad news, cynicism towards society follows close behind - and naiveté towards government follows close behind that.

Consequently you can be a journalist, or you can be a conservative. A journalist who isn't explicitly conservative will be socialist.

Is that not what "With 4-5 exceptions, Fox is CNN” means?

Wallace brought up the subject of Trump’s tax returns. It would be one thing if it were at all likely that Trump had systematically cheated - but that not being the case, why exactly is that a topic? Because the NY Times brings it up? That’s it?

All journalists who get the “moderator” gig will be socialists - it is an iron law. Dispense with the moderator, and simply control the microphones with a chess timer, and let the candidates duke it out.

Fat chance the journalists will go for that!


13 posted on 09/30/2020 7:32:28 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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