Shell shocked Fox News is like a ghost town as ratings fall and future looks uncertain

[babylonsister]

‘Shell shocked’ Fox News is like a ghost town as ratings fall and future looks uncertain
David Ferguson

07 Jun 2017 at 11:42 ET


Roiled by the departures of former CEO Roger Ailes and ratings star Bill O’Reilly, Fox News is facing an uncertain future as ratings slip for the first time in decades and viewers migrate to other platforms.

Vanity Fair‘s Sarah Ellison wrote that the departure of rising star Megyn Kelly for NBC has further dispirited the “Leftovers” at Fox.

“Weeks after the unexpected death of ousted co-founder Roger Ailes, and the shocking departures of anchor Bill O’Reilly and Ailes’s former deputy Bill Shine, whom one former Fox News executive called Ailes’s spiritual ‘brother,’ the existential angst within the company’s subterranean newsroom has reached a deeper level,” Ellison said.

The warring factions within the network mirror a generational gap between NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdock and his sons, James and Lachlan. Murdoch Senior represents the old guard within the company, who want very much to put the last year’s ugly scandal headlines behind them and soldier on.

James and Lachlan — long “embarrassed” by Fox’s right-wing bias and the exposure of the company’s frat-house culture of sexual harassment and racial bullying — represent a reformist movement within the company, which wants to shed its right-wing past and be taken more seriously as a journalistic organization.

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[randr]

1. Anti America ass wipes need a good kicking

Hang a Fake News sign around their neck

[sarcasmo]

2. Rec x 1 Million.

[Initech]

3. Fox News needs a boot up its' ass for giving us Orange Pussygrabber.

Their experiment to have a no government government has failed and backfired on them big time, and they need to let it be known to them.

[hatrack]

4. " . . . and be taken more seriously as a journalistic organization."

Yeah, well, lotsa luck with that.

[Txbluedog]

5. Does FOX realize that Trump TV will put it out of business

Trump will launch it once he is out of office and then all of the deplorables will follow him there and Fox won't have an audience anymore

[mitch96]

6. Shell shocked Fox News is like a ghost town

Their only purpose was to attack the democrats in power. With out a target they have nothing to attack. When Democrats or an "anti conservative" is in power, them or something like them will return...
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[marybourg]

7. Last nite they had a banner

saying something to the effect that CNN was in disarray

[gratuitous]

8. Fox facing an uncertain future, is it?

Well, suck it up, buttercups. Now you know how Americans feel as they watch Congress try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. Will my pre-existing condition still be covered? Will my premiums double? Or triple? Are we back to the days of choosing to eat or taking my medication? Can I go every other day on my prescription instead of every day?

You're feeling uncertain, Fox? Tough. And fuck you all sideways.