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Various news outlets are reporting that Bill Shine has been replaced as co-president of Fox News Channel. Suzanne Scott has replaced him. In possibly related news, there are reports that 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News Channel, is in talks with the Blackstone Group (a private equity investment firm) to purchase Tribune Media, a U.S. broadcasting chain.
In the UK, 21st Century Fox has requested permission from the government's Office of Communications to increase its ownership in Sky News; in April the network dismissed commentator Bill O'Reilly after paying out settlements in multiple sexual harassment lawsuits regarding Mr. O'Reilly.
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You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 03 2017, @04:10AM (2 children)
What would be some good ideas:
1. Strictly segregate the interviews and opinions from the fact segments on a show-by-show basis, just like how good news outlets used to do. Sometimes we just want to watch the damn news, like how Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts Ma'am."
2. When interviews are conducted, try to play a little hardball whether or not they're "their guy" or not, and leave the mention of their new book out of it.
3. Embrace centrist but America-first points of view, particularly free speech, and call out any affiliation's attempts to stifle it. Think Breitbart with less Christianity and a more common-sense attitude towards family planning.
4. Keep Andrew Napolitano and let him say whatever the fuck he wants.
5. Have a "liberal vs. conservative" show like Hannity and Colmes, but put the liberal and conservative on more equal footing (which would likely mean not having Hannity as the conservative), emphasize the common-ground, and have reasonable debate without always having the conservative constantly condescendingly curb-stomping a milquetoast liberal as Hannity did Colmes.
6. Have an occasional light-hearted show similar to the American Football draft process, with "team owners" of a variety of political backgrounds draft their own "fantasy politican teams" candidate-by-candidate and explain their reasoning as their announce each of their picks. To make it a little more interesting, each "team" could not pick another's draft. For example, if one team drafts Rand Paul, another team would say, "Aw dang, I wanted him. Well..." They could do this for almost all levels, state government, congress, up to the presidential race. To make it even more interesting they could have special guests from current or former city or state government, or congress; perhaps with some cute scoring visuals.
7. Have a few less-attractive people (think like Rachel Maddow or a fat guy or something), but don't go out of your way to be patronizing or pandering to too many outsiders. RuPaul would be a great guest-personality because she's pretty no-bullshit. Ellen Degeneres, not so much.
8. Offer digital delivery with costing based on a per-show basis - learn the lesson from cable TV and don't force people to buy all the shit they don't want.
9. Feature technology segments that aren't paid ads disguised as reviews or pozzed with the SJW AIDS.
10. Have sports segments without political bullshit, get the better ones from ESPN before that starts sinking the Disney ship.
Any more good ideas?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:34PM
Good ideas.
The biggest thing about Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts Ma'am." is that as Ted Koppel points out, ideology has become more important than facts. They need to fix that first. That is Fox News' number one problem. If they don't fix that, then they are still bad for America as Ted Koppel says.
You can have whatever ideology you want. But the facts are what they are. You can't make the facts fit the ideology. The ideology (on both sides) should bend to the facts.
Fox News has been the fake news for too long. I remember a decade ago reading about how people who watched were less informed about basic facts than people who watched other news. I don't mean opinions. I mean facts. Like the sun rises in the East not the West.
When the president picks up a false idea from Fox News and tweets it as fact without any evidence and then doubles down on it, that is a problem caused by Fox News.
When a presidential candidate (Romney) is fact checked by the moderator over a fake fact he is wrong about, and that originated from Fox News, that is another problem caused by Fox News. That might have been the thing contributing to Romney losing the election. (Not that I'm crying over it.)
It's fine to have media with a particular bias, if that bias is well known. But quit calling it fair and balanced. And don't just make stuff up and call it news. CNN doesn't make stuff up and call it news -- CNN calls it BREAKING NEWS!
For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.
(Score: 2) by rondon on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:25PM
I've come to know you as the greatest long-term troll I've ever witnessed, but if you keep futzing around with interesting (maybe even good!) ideas like this I'm going to start to wonder if you are losing your edge.