Fox news is a good example of being closer to something objective. If you take all the liberal mainstream news channels and the top ten newspapers, you might find one or two conservative voices across all of those COMBINED. While Fox news has liberals like Colmes, Shep, Megan to balance out the other right leaning hosts. So it is truly more balanced than the other channels.
And trust me, I’m guilty of retreating to RSBN and all of my favorite conservative sources, I just see a bigger problem with the divisions that only seem to be growing.
What was intersting to me was Okeek’s statement that his funding is crowd sourced and is a 501C3
All media that counts is designed around profit based corporations that depend on advertising
O’Keefe claims that the ad $$ are drying up for the normal media and shifting to the social media. We talk about that a lot and yet they hang on. Some have successfully transitioned to the internet. Forbes is a good example. Much of their audience is online rather than in print. Forbes is a niche outlet with a very specialized readership.
Roger Ailes was a genius behind Fox News and produced a new product that upset the apple cart. What he did is however threatened by the change as well. Fox depends on ads watched by viewers