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FOX News Course Correction Rankles Some (ya Think???)
Politico ^ | 02/14/12 | Keach Hagey

Posted on 02/14/2012 6:59:17 AM PST by pgkdan

As a white, male, middle-aged conservative talk radio host from Virginia, John Fredericks is something close to the Platonic ideal of a Fox News fan.

And until last year, he was one. But then Fox’s treatment of the Republican primary race — the presentation of Karl Rove as a political analyst despite his having “thrown in for Romney” and Sean Hannity’s clear ties to the Republican establishment — began to grate on him. So he changed the channel.

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The grumblers were picking up on a strategy that has been under way for some time — a “course correction,” as Fox chief Roger Ailes put it last fall — with the network distancing itself from the tea party cheerleading that characterized the first two years of President Barack Obama’s presidency. Lately, Fox has increasingly promoted its straight-news talent in the press and conducted some of the toughest interviews and debates of the Republican primary season. Just last week, it hired the openly gay liberal activist Sally Kohn as a contributor.

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To: Logic n' Reason

What media that has a lot of viewers/listeners/readers, isn’t mainstream?


21 posted on 02/14/2012 7:18:52 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: pgkdan

I make my wife change the channel when I am in the room - Fox has become the establishment republican propaganda channel and is unwatchable for me.


22 posted on 02/14/2012 7:19:33 AM PST by underbyte (TEOTEWAKI)
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To: Kit cat

Napolitano is also pro homosexual based marriage. (having said so on the air)


23 posted on 02/14/2012 7:20:31 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: pgkdan

We need a new news channel. Proposed hosts: Judge Napolitano, Walter Williams, Mark Steyn. And get my favorite Fox News reporter: William LaJeunnesse, who seems to have disappeared.


24 posted on 02/14/2012 7:22:08 AM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: pgkdan

It is sad but not surprising. As long as they stay right of CNN, FOX can pick up new audience as it moves left because conservatives have nowhere to go. Unfortunately, it is not easy to start a new news network, but that’s what’s needed: a news network that would come in at the right of FOX. There is nothing more dangerous to FOX than that eventuality.


25 posted on 02/14/2012 7:22:22 AM PST by winner3000 (ss)
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To: pgkdan
I watch Fox a lot less than I used to and it looks like it is going to become even less. If Fox doesn't respond to conservative market pressures, it is time to beef up the alternatives, probably on-line. The fracturing and factioning of the audiences continues. The division and atomizing of Americans is speeding up and this ultimately aids the left in their weakening of a unified America.
26 posted on 02/14/2012 7:22:27 AM PST by Truth29
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To: longtermmemmory

Everyone has his faults. I disagree with him on that, but I think he’s a good host otherwise.


27 posted on 02/14/2012 7:23:22 AM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: Red Badger

Yep, that’s why I stopped watching the news.


28 posted on 02/14/2012 7:25:38 AM PST by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: pgkdan
I absolutely agree I don't like slick and that is what I see and hear from them , 85% / more just fluff crap .
29 posted on 02/14/2012 7:25:51 AM PST by Billk
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To: pgkdan

It’s not the tea party that has changed and is waning, it’s FOXNEWS that has changed their reporting on the tea party and soon will be waning.


30 posted on 02/14/2012 7:28:27 AM PST by tentmaker (vote for John Galt)
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To: All

Does anyone use GBTV?


31 posted on 02/14/2012 7:29:14 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: winner3000

Never happen.

They will never allow a truly conservative channel to get picked up by the cable-satellite companies. Plus a news channel would be impossibly expensive as a startup. Maybe a News-Talk Channel would work.

Besides, liberals have all the money it seems.


32 posted on 02/14/2012 7:31:01 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

That story was completely debunked ... NOT TRUE!


33 posted on 02/14/2012 7:31:50 AM PST by KalaSamy
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To: pgkdan

Shocking, a hit piece on Fox News in Politco. Funny I don’t remember seeing any article by them about the tanking ratings of the other news channel. Now that’s the real story.

Fox News rankles Politico, CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the MSM.


34 posted on 02/14/2012 7:32:32 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: pgkdan
Pretty much only watch The Five because I like Greg Gutfeld... OH!, I almost forgot... AND to a sneak a peek at Kimberly Guilfoyle's legs. :-p


35 posted on 02/14/2012 7:34:18 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: pgkdan

Did you notice how easy it was for Fox News to turn left? I bet the staffers are much happier now.


36 posted on 02/14/2012 7:34:27 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Red Badger

I haven’t had it on Fox since Hub retired in January 2011....FoxandFriends comes on too early and I ain’t gettin’ up for dat....LOL


37 posted on 02/14/2012 7:36:49 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: longtermmemmory

Did he say he was “for” it,
or is his position simply that the government has no business banning it?

He is a libertarian, ya know.


38 posted on 02/14/2012 7:37:35 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: tentmaker

I wouldn’t be surprised if Stuart Varney on Fox Business is soon replaced, also. His anti tax, anti redistribution, anti big government regulation views are far to firmly stated to be comfortable to the management.


39 posted on 02/14/2012 7:38:21 AM PST by Truth29
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To: pgkdan

I don’t watch FOX news anymore - I’ll watch CNN or even... *spit*.... MSNBC (to hear their talking points)


40 posted on 02/14/2012 7:40:18 AM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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