==10 ways to make Democrats love FOX News
Media==
By Tatiana Prophet
• In spite of dominating the national cable ratings for 18 years as the most-watched cable news station, all throughout that time FOX News channel has been knocked around by other media and pundits as a pariah, as the Guardian put it in January 2017, with “a cloud of dubious accuracy that hovers over the network at all times.”
In fact, bashing “Faux News” is almost an entry ticket into polite society — at least the one with college graduates in it. It was accepted as fact that FOX News viewers were “bitter,” as candidate Obama put it, because of the loss of factory jobs, and that this loss made them “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” He was speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser in April 2008.
But what “polite” society missed for those 18 years was that FOX News’ viewer base was made up of much more than bitter Christians and gun “nuts.” What the elite missed, and what they’re still missing, is the unifying factor for FOX News viewers: the belief in personal responsibility and hard work, the belief in actual common sense, self-reliance and the importance of instilling those values into their offspring. These were the FOX News viewers, and in their opinion, traditional networks, plus Ted Turner’s CNN, were no longer reporting the news. They were spinning it. College grads and corporate worker bees tittered each time they heard Bill O’Reilly tell his audience (sadly made up of their own often parental family members) that they were entering the “no-spin zone.”
In early 2017, owner Rupert Murdoch and his sons began what amounted to a four-year plan to completely transform the network and pave the way for its triumphant march into the circle of acceptable journalistic narrative. Here’s how it went:
1) Terminate Bill O’Reilly.
In April 2017, anonymous sources leaked to NY Magazine’s Intelligencer that Rupert Murdoch and sons were “turning on Bill O’Reilly.” Sexual harassment allegations had apparently hit critical mass amid protests outside FOX News HQ in New York. Also, Rupert Murdoch wanted to acquire controlling shares in SkyNews for $14 billion, and he needed to mollify UK regulators who were concerned that his 21st Century FOX conglomerate’s 39 percent ownership of Sky (including the Times of London) might not be appropriate because of “editorial lapses” including the infamous Judge Jeanine show stating that Birmingham, UK, had no-go zones where police would not go. O’Reilly was implicated in the broader fallout from that show. His $100 million contract, which was renewed that January, was terminated and he received the $25 million severance it required. Murdoch ended up agreeing to sell his SkyNews shares in the end.
• O’Reilly went on to self-publish, and quite successfully. In September 2019, a judge threw out a defamation suit brought by one of the former FOX News producers who had alleged sexual misconduct.
2) Sell 21st Century FOX to Disney, except for news and sports channels. The deal had to be approved by governmental authorities in China, Europe, Brazil and Mexico. When Disney bought 21st Century FOX, which included National Geographic. Murdoch spun off FOX News, FOX Business and FOX Sports as a separate company, FOX Corp, with him as co-chairman with son Keith, and son Lachlan as CEO.
3) Add former political operatives to the FOX Corp board. with new board containing former House Speaker and former Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan, as well as former Joe Biden chief of staff Danny O’Brien the new company’s executive vice president and head of government relations. According to left-leaning The American Prospect: “From March 2003 to August 2006, O’Brien was then-Sen. Biden’s chief of staff. Two years later, he signed on as Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-N.J.) chief of staff and then as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In late 2014 he left Congress for an executive-level government affairs job at General Electric.” Revolving doors are fun!
4) Fire Trish Regan from FOX Business for blasting China in its handling of the coronavirus.
• 5) Cancel Jeanine Pirro the night she was planning to discuss allegations of voter fraud across multiple battleground states.
• 6) Put Chris Wallace forward as the living embodiment of milquetoast centrism to challenge every “lie” of President Trump with the conventional wisdom of the elite media.
• 7) Partner with the Associated Press…
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