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applegrove

(118,642 posts) Fri Mar 30, 2018, 04:16 PM Mar 2018

Inside the Decline of Fox News

https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/30/the-decline-of-fox-news/

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Ralph Peters: “You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room. A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in. Today, you would meet a Republican commissar with a steakhouse waistline and an eager young woman wearing too little fabric and too much makeup, immersed in memorizing her talking points.”

“This wasn’t a case of the rats leaving a sinking ship. The best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.”

“As I wrote in an internal Fox memo, leaked and widely disseminated, I declined to renew my contract as Fox News’s strategic analyst because of the network’s propagandizing for the Trump administration. Today’s Fox prime-time lineup preaches paranoia, attacking processes and institutions vital to our republic and challenging the rule of law.”

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Inside the Decline of Fox News (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2018 OP

Their viewers haven't declined though. BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #1

Good thing they have Fabio to fill the void. John Fante Mar 2018 #2

The ship was always infested with rats, though. From Day 1. JHB Mar 2018 #3

Fox News was a cesspit a lot longer ago than a year and a half. Squinch Mar 2018 #4

No one is talking about how Fox Entertainment has Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #5

I don't understand why it's not a topic of discussion that so many Fox "analysts" are just bullies renate Mar 2018 #6

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)

1. Their viewers haven't declined though.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 04:26 PM

Mar 2018

If a few have left, the remaining ones are only more hate filled and ignorant than ever. SCARY!

John Fante

(3,479 posts)

2. Good thing they have Fabio to fill the void.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 04:32 PM

Mar 2018

JHB

(37,160 posts)

3. The ship was always infested with rats, though. From Day 1.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 04:57 PM

Mar 2018

They spent a quarter century breeding and building their numbers. Maybe Roger Ailes was better at insulating the colonel from the realities, maybe he just never noticed, maybe he’s a nearsighted gopher and didn’t recognize what kind of other rodents were there until they got real close, but they were always there

Squinch

(50,949 posts)

4. Fox News was a cesspit a lot longer ago than a year and a half.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 05:44 PM

Mar 2018

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

5. No one is talking about how Fox Entertainment has

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 05:59 PM

Mar 2018

already peddled their Movie Production Company to Disney. Fox now is News Division,and Sports. And with issues arising from NFL Broadcasting and Viewership numbers slipping,you can not tell me they are headed for Finical trouble.

renate

(13,776 posts)

6. I don't understand why it's not a topic of discussion that so many Fox "analysts" are just bullies

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 06:15 PM

Mar 2018

Their fallback position is meanness and negativity. It both soils their viewers' souls and whets their appetite for more.

Why would anyone want to spend a minute listening to a bunch of mean, nasty, negative commentary? It's no more informed than the spoutings of a drunk racist uncle. It's just so sad.

I think yesterday's Nichole Wallace show was the first time I've heard this aspect of Fox specifically addressed in the MSM.

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