09-27-2019, 04:47 AM
(09-27-2019, 04:35 AM)Duchess Wrote:(09-26-2019, 08:09 PM)Rootilda Wrote: Things are looking bad if Fox News is thinking of jumping ship.
Why do you imagine that is?
Because Fox is and has always been a Right Wing counterpoint to the Liberal establishment and later a counterpoint to the Leftist establishment press?
Sure, that would have been pretty sound reasoning 5-10 years ago. Isn't now.
Conservative Rupert Murdoch does not run it any more, Liberal Lachlan Murdoch does. Fox News is tryingbto transform itself into so.ething more centrist and less Counterpoint. Pirro is on shaky ground but Hannity and Carlson and Ingraham are going nowhere and so they are starting to hire the likes of Donna Brazile and use some prominent Left wingers in their organisation to push out non-traditional talking points and hiring never Trumpers like Ryan to the board.
It is one that may in time transform the network into Lachlan's vision for what he wishes Fox to be. But i think it more likely he will just taint the brand in both the eyes of Conservatives and not attract anyone from the Left as they will remember what it was
He will not get the "best of both worlds".
In short, he is a idiot.