Tectonic plates are moving underneath Fox News
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
3/20/2019 9:51:19 AM
Under capitalism, ownership brings control, and Fox News has a new corporate parent that began trading yesterday on NASDAQ. There are reasons for conservatives to be deeply concerned. (snip) Coincidentally or not, this change in ownership coincides with the reported two week suspension of Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Saturday night ratings champion show, following her questioning of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s adherence to sharia, because she donned a hijab post-9/11. President Trump’s tweeted support for her and expressed worries about his supporters at Fox being silenced.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 3/20/2019 9:59:59 AM (No. 7043)
I´ve gone cold turkey on Fox since the Pirro decision. It´s a hard habit to break, but must be done. And now Brazile, an admitted lowlife cheater,is hired?! My stomach is turning. Let Fox rot for all I care.
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This is so troubling. Concern for all those at Fox that have fought the good fight of "fair and balanced" as the fairy tale company bulldozes over truth.
Disney, the company that rewrites history in their animated fiction is about to do the same with real life news. We really are living in an alternate universe these days.
Perhaps a new channel, or NewsMax, or CRTV (Levin´s channel) will fill the gap. To Hannity, Ingraham, Carlson, Pirro, Varney, Bartiromo, maybe y´all ought to get together and quit en masse. Let Donna Brazil and Paul Ryan rule over a channel that goes...plop!
MAGA!!! KAG!!! May the Phoenix of truth rise again in another place!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 3/20/2019 10:24:00 AM (No. 7048)
Nature abhors a vacuum. A new outlet will rise from the ashes of Fox and take it´s place. It´s the highest rated network by far and the advertisers know it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mseegal 3/20/2019 10:24:14 AM (No. 7041)
When you start wearing the hijab after 9-11, you have chosen a side in the war between civilization and hate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/20/2019 10:27:36 AM (No. 7047)
I haven´t heard not a word of support from anyone on Fox for Judge Jeanine. The story is being ignored, which is in of itself censorship. It looks like Fox News has been muffled.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Cog 3/20/2019 10:29:30 AM (No. 7054)
Brazile´s appearance on Hannity was disgusting.
She never gave a direct response, and her duplicity and avoidance were painful to watch.
Jeanine Pirro´s treatment by Fox was unbelievable. Hers was one of a very few shows that I could watch and enjoy from start to finish. Fox execs might begin by studying American history, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We were given the very best system ever, and Democrats have spent all of their years trying to dismantle it. Wake up!
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Where are the "conservative" investors willing to put together another first-class television news network "fair and balanced" outside the Prog-Lib-Soc-Dem orbit?
Where is the "conservative" talent to make it work from the beginning, give it cred, and not look like some basement operation with iPhones?
(Please, don´t suggest OAN...)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rolltide 3/20/2019 10:31:45 AM (No. 7040)
I gave Fox up a long time ago and have not looked back. I believed for a long time that they were truly trying to present fair news and not fake news. And not trying to please the liberal masters of media. Over time, I just felt like a super putz for continuing to delude myself into thinking the network was something it wasn’t. Brett Baier, Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Judge Nap, and the oh so smug Shep Smith, and Dana Perino all pushed me over the edge. The network has deceived viewers into thinking they are something they are just not and that makes me feel taken advantage of. We former viewers were sucker punched into believing we had a voice out there. It will only get worse so I hope Tucker, Jeninne, and Shaun (sp) can leave for greener pastures soon. Maybe Laura Ingraham too but she is very annoying. One of the many reasons I appreciate Lucianne.com so much.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
aasilver 3/20/2019 10:31:54 AM (No. 7038)
Fox News is dead.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/20/2019 10:42:22 AM (No. 7053)
First, I have to say that Donna is the best looking, distinguished lesbian in the business.
Second, I don´t listen to her or Marie Harf on Fox. In fact, my Fox viewing has gone way down.
Third, if twice disgraced, unfrocked by the Assemblies of God pastor, Jimmy Swaggart can run his own cable channel 24/7, then Rush Limbaugh and friends could do the same.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jacksin5 3/20/2019 10:49:41 AM (No. 7051)
Watching FOX is tacit approval of their Programming. Hannity,Levin etc., can be found through other Media sources.
Dump FOX, "Fair and Balanced", like "Compassionate Conservatism", is neither.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
former lurker 3/20/2019 10:51:51 AM (No. 7056)
We don’t watch Fox anymore, do watch Fox Business. This morning after hearing about Ryan and Brazille FNC have Keatie Curic on Maria’s show. My head is exploding!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 3/20/2019 11:15:21 AM (No. 7045)
I dropped FoxNews back in 2012 when we found that we´d been strung along maintain FoxNews ratings during the 2012 voting season. FoxNews hawkers led us to believe that Romney could actually win the election----when they knew all along it would be hands-down against him. Once again, ratings trumped truth.
Bear in mind that I´d already dropped O´Reilly over his cowardly resistance to vetting Obama. He knew what kind of dastardly villain the Kenyan was.
The truth is not in FoxNews, and the fix has been in for a long time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
AltaD 3/20/2019 11:16:43 AM (No. 7044)
We cut the cable cord a few years ago so I rely on Internet for my news. For national news I read Lucianne, Instapundit and Christian Daily Reporter. For business news it´s Investing.com and IBD (both a far superior to Fox).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Frenesi1 3/20/2019 11:43:54 AM (No. 7057)
I quit watching Fox. OAN needs to step up their game. But if I want news, I go there. I agree that there are so many good conservative hosts out there, it would be nice if we had a network full of them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Saryden 3/20/2019 11:56:15 AM (No. 7049)
Find Lou Dobbs... he is the best now. We watch him at 6PM Central on Channel 74.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/20/2019 12:04:43 PM (No. 7055)
Thomas, we became concerned several years ago when we saw Fox’s major shift during the 2016 election. Bret Baier, Meghan Whatshername. The dreadful handling of the debates. And the growing presence, rather than diminishment, of the Shep Smith-Geraldo Rivera-Juan Williams faction, soon to be joined by Donna Brazile, of all people. A strong voice for conservatism, Judge Pirro, is simultaneously snuffed out.
Many of us left back then, saying “enough”. Even FBN wobbles, but recording the broadcasts and watching them a bit delayed allows us to control their content. Eliminate the propaganda that is allowed to creep in even there.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 3/20/2019 12:13:04 PM (No. 7050)
An open borders backstabber like Ryan on the board is all you need to know about the future direction of Fox.
Circling the drain -- to the left.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
GOPinTN 3/20/2019 1:03:14 PM (No. 7046)
Fox News (and Business News, Sports and TV stations) are NOT under Disney, they have been spun off into a separate company. Disney picked up entertainment, minus the Fox Studios lot in Hollywood.
But, the Murdoch boys are doing as much damage as Disney would do, just without the Disney gay spin they add to everything. Well, there is Shepard.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Faldo 3/20/2019 5:23:46 PM (No. 7042)
More like the ´criminal broth´ has crept over the edge and the ´Dochs are, and have been, running for cover ever since they did triple-somersaults to unload NDS to Chamber´s Cisco Systems for $5 billion.
Just think, Alwaleed, was hanging upside down 18 months ago and the ´Doch clan pockets $150 million personally and gets to safely park their ill-gotten gains into Mickey stock, as if they are pure as the driven snow.
In fact, their the ones who kick-started the print hit-man and tabloid mercenary, GLENN SIMPSON.
This is actually a positive...they are running from something!!
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