Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
There’s talk that President Trump should start a news organization when he leaves office— one that actually reports news, like Fox used to. However, I sincerely hope Mr. Trump will be too busy with his second term to take on that job until after 2024…
I’d like to add that I have nothing but contempt for Cavuto’s sanctimony and suppression of the news. That was the very opposite of journalism.
Most of my American friends living in Thailand unsubscribed from Fox News are looking for alternatives that broadcast outside of the US for this very reason. I’m sure they know a thing or two about censorship. Newsmax and OANN YouTube come to mind
Oh, no! The News Media could never accuse some of horrible crimes without good evidence!
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So, anybody else using the four-months-for-a-dollar deal from Epoch Times? Check out their front page.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/
Thanks Foxfier.
Signed up.
I heard certification deadline is December 8th. Perfect date to announce to the country that too many ballots were invalid or fictional.
I used to love Cavuto, but havent watch TV in years. Sad that Fox has fallen so far.
Rupert’s sons have made a calculated decision to take FNC in a leftward direction. The evening personality shows are just window-dressing for a news division that thinks we need another CNN.
For some reason, the younger Murdochs thought that the “rubes” would either not notice or not care.
Oops.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/fox-ratings-falter/
If I’m Hannity, Carlson, et al., I’m looking for a new roost when my contract is up.
The younger Murdochs are tired of being slighted socially by their worthless peers and thus they are willing to lose a lot of money for perceived social prestige. The market will quickly reward the next Fox with riches. Half the nation is not a niche market.
The younger Murdochs are tired of being slighted socially by their worthless peers and thus they are willing to lose a lot of money for perceived social prestige.
Which evidently includes the wife of one of them.
The News division employed Shep Smith for 20-odd years and long employed alternate voices on their commentary programs (e.g. Juan Williams and Alan Combs). It was considered a ‘conservative network’ because it didn’t lie for the Democratic Party and it did not frame every story to structure the discussion as one between two alternatives acceptable to the Democratic Party (which is what Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill did to MacNeill / Lehrer). Similarly, Drudge was a news aggregator who linked accross the board rather than to approved liberal opinion. Drudge is himself an odd and extraordinary character, one who will merit a full-dress biography. They’re considered to be of the right because the left fancies they own public communications.
The Murdoch boys behavior is indicative of a recent phenomenon wherein corporation executives decide they despise their market and wish to replace them with a different market. (For a prefiguring of this, see the ‘rural purge’ of network television programs undertaken ca. 1971). Marvel Comics, ESPN, Gillette, and the NFL have all displayed the syndrome of late. I
In this regard, see Rod Dreher’s experience at the Dallas Morning News. Metropolitan newspapers have been insulated from competition for some time (although Dallas did have competing papers) and developed habits of mind which persisted even as their revenues were falling off a cliff. He circulates this memorandum pointing out that their market research indicated that their readership was modally older and suburban, so perhaps they should put more labor into covering stories of interest to older and suburban people. Per Dreher, they couldn’t have been less interested, even as the paper was bleeding subscribers.
If the world is just, all of them will be in bankruptcy court ‘ere long.
for a news division that thinks we need another CNN.
Well, it it were CNN in Turner’s era, that would not be disagreeable. CNN today has decided their business model is to play to what we used to call ‘the nutroots’. A somewhat kooky but perceptive paralegal who comments at one place I’m a regular pointed out something that hadn’t occurred to me: if Zucker’s CNN and other networks tried Tedkoppelesque straight reporting, they’d lose their audience. Their audience is seeking emotional validation, not information.
Great points here. I made my comments about Fox News on a different thread before reading this one, so sorry about basically repeating what several here have said. 🙂
“ …seeking emotional validation, not information”
Yowser. But it’s even worse than that… it’s alsocontrolling what information is presented
Remember when Marie Harf on FOX shut down Newt Gingrich about Soros ?
She interrupted and cut him off as if she owned the show.
I subscribed to The Epoch Times about 6 months ago. Just resubscribed to the daily online version with a weekly paper one. My husband is still with the WSJ but reads my Epoch Times online.
A big thank you to Foxfier for the heads up on Epoch Times.
I’m enjoying it.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mcenany-announces-234-pages-of-affidavits-alleging-election-irregularities-in-michigan_3574334.html
Where’s the beef…the media asks…
I just hope and pray these allegations are proven so a fair and accurate count will be established.