Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper?
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:21PM
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Fox News in the 90s was fairly balanced. Hannity and Colmes was decent- one was liberal the other conservative. I think that was part of the plan. Once they had the viewers established they pulled further and further right and people stayed out of habit.
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It's quite a stretch to call Fox News "balanced" because of Hannity and Colmes, which was a) their only attempt at "balance" and b) a notoriously lopsided show, designed entirely as a platform for Hannity to spar with someone. They've dropped the pretext now - the show is now just called "Hannity".
Fox News has never not been scummy.
Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper?
by listenallyall on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:53PM
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TV news is still a profit-oriented enterprise, not a public service. The ultimate end goal is to attract eyeballs (and therefore advertisers), not to broadcast a specific point of view.
Fox successfully and accurately identified an underserved market, and filled the void. Unfortunately, middle-of-the-road doesn't attract large audiences night after night. MSNBC has done exact same thing as Fox, just on the other end of the spectrum. CNN is an utter failure because it has no identity, its viewpoint is the same as MSNBC's but is inferior in just about every way.