Tag: FoxNews

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. The End of FoxNews As We Know It?

 

FoxNews is losing viewers…rapidly. The intensity of the anger by longtime viewers expressed in responses on Twitter alone is palpable. Newsmax and many of the other more independent sources for news – many of them available for free on PlutoTV.com through Roku, AppleTV, and other streaming devices or directly online through their internet sites are seeing a massive surge in viewership. Newsmax recently announced that it will not make a call on the presidential winner of this election until all the votes have been counted, until all legal challenges have been resolved and all elections certified by their states. A refreshing approach.

From Newsmax:

It is official. Newsmax TV surpassed both Fox Business and CNBC in daytime ratings the day after Election Day.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. No Need to Apologize, Fox

 

I didn’t want to comment on the Fox News thing that the media has been going insane over, but there’s a lot going on here that’s really getting on my nerves. For those not familiar, “Fox & Friends” had a discussion about Trump cutting funding to three Central American countries — El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Unfortunately, the chyron ran with this:

Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. The End of Fox News?

 

carlson_vansusterenWith the news today that not only will 21st Century Fox be shelling out $20 million to Gretchen Carlson, but that Greta Van Susteren will be giving up her show immediately in favor of Brit Hume, one wonders how many days it will take for the whole of the network to implode.

What this portends for conservative media in the short- and long-term remains to be seen though it looks like this particular 20-year reign is over.

As the lurid and disgusting details come out, the question that needs to be asked: can the conservative movement, which makes all kinds of claims concerning morality and proper values, continue to support an organization that not only supported Ailes’ profligacy, but shunned those who sought to shine light on the problem.

Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. What’s Happening at Breitbart.com?

 

WhiteRabbitIt may be presumptuous and even unfair of me to liken the behavior of a media outlet to a mental disorder, but unfortunately, monitoring Breitbart.com lately has been like watching a very disturbed person. Sometimes sober. Sometimes unhinged. Sometimes giddy. Sometimes juvenile and petty. Sometimes in full rage.

It won’t take but a few minutes of glancing at some of the sillier headlines and reading what passes for serious political commentary, or perusing some of the more extreme responses on Breitbart.com to anyone that dare challenge the wisdom of Donald Trump, to realize that we are no longer in Kansas. And no, Ray Kinsella, we aren’t even in Iowa, hearing voices in cornfields. It’s closer to say that we’ve passed through Alice’s looking glass to a place where the absurd characters are darker and more threatening than even Lewis Carroll could have imagined.

Am I saying that some (not all) of Trump’s supporters are so ridiculously angry that they’ll say anything inflammatory, defamatory, and outrageous behind the convenient veil of online pseudonyms? Yes, I am. Am I saying that certain political commentators have become besotted with Mr. Trump to the point of drooling, blithering idiocy, checking whatever critical thinking parts of their brains at the door? Well, yes. I’m saying that, too.