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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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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:23AM (3 children)
Your post-hoc rationalization is pretty funny. You sound like the kind of guy who believes all that crap about trump being a 4d chessmaster too.
What's going on here is fox "won" when trump was elected.
But, just like the republicans and their 5 million different votes to repeal obamacare, they never actually planned on winning.
Fox never counted on a situation where their message of victimization at the hands of evil, america-hating democrats no longer applied because the democrats were so obviously neutered.
Without an enemy, all they've got is constant trump fellation. And that's really no substitute, nobody can fool themselves that they are fighting the good fight now.
The whole network is now suddenly very fragile.
The ailes ouster was the first domino, orielly the second, this shine guy the third (well the guy who made the dick-sucking joke about ivanka was like 2.1).
So now its all falling apart. They are a victim of their own success.
Will they be able to build something out of all the rubble?
Nobody knows. But breitbart, theblaze and infowars are looking to cannibalize as many eyeballs as they can.
And that will probably be even worse for the country.
Especially if Bannon ends up running the heritage foundation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:31PM (2 children)
This. The Democratic party is/was always divided among a number of somewhat disparate voting blocks - blacks gays, cityfolk, jews, Hollywoods, etc. Their triumph or failure always hinged on being able to unite enough of them into a single platform. The Republican party, however, was much more broad-base baseline, standing on principles - limited Government, lower taxation, states rights, strong defense, etc. Their success/failure has historically depended on how they've been able to stick to their principles without getting bogged down in side conversations (everything social). A good Republican candidate typically looks like a principled guy who is financially successful (won't screw up the economy).
That said, the Republican party stands much more for being *against* things than *for* anything. What is the Republican position on a national healthcare system? No. What is the Republican position on using federal taxpayer monies to pay for Department of Education standards for all the states? No. What is the Republican position on enhancing gun regulation? No.
For the last 8 years there has been an opportunity to run a news network on being *against* things. The stories write themselves - "[evil] President Obama is going to take your money and pay for programs. Programs that infringe on your freedom by taking your taxpayer dollars and forcing you to do anything at all. We at Fox News are against it! Government overreach!"
But here's the thing - you can't really administer a nation by being against its administration. "I don't want a national healthcare system" isn't a *solution* or a *policy*. "Build a wall that no one thinks will fix immigration" isn't a *solution* or a *policy*. Additionally, Fox News can't very well be *against* everything that Trump does - he is representative of their side of the argument. Additionally, President Trump is unpopular and just fellating him ("The right and just president has just signed the best law ever written!") doesn't win viewers.
They have nothing to report.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:27PM (1 child)
They have nothing they WANT to report.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:50PM
Yep fuck those evil republicans? Am I right?
BTW your cognitive bias is showing.