Posted on 10/11/2013 10:13:37 AM PDT by Duke of Milan
Joseph Farah speaking about a TV program project that is being planned says from 14:32 through 15:55 in the interview:
“I have to tell you…this may be a little controversial, but I believe, a lot of people look at Fox News as, you know, their alternative choice for tv and I think Fox has a lot of limitations and I am not particularly excited about it but one thing I do know is that whatever it is doing well right now it is not going to continue doing well into the future because it depends on two human beings who are both in their 80’s, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, they’re not going to be around forever and when they leave, inertia, that is very familiar to me from my many years in the main stream media, will take Fox News right where CNN is and the New York Times and everybody else. And the children, the Murdoch children, have said they can’t wait to make Fox News more like CNN. Now why would you want to make the successful Fox News more like the unsuccessful CNN? Because, you get invited to better cocktail parties in Manhattan when you do that – it’s that simple. So we want to be there with a video alternative – a tv alternative – when Fox News inevitably implodes.”
It’s not only leaning left but they only cover politics it seems. Boring as hell to watch, it hardly covers the news let alone what happens around the world and it’s all about selling books.
Many businesses do go to hell when the patriarch dies and the kids take over. Farah think he’s some sort of genius for coming up with that one?
This seems odd, because as of now, Fox has higher ratings than all other cable news channels combined. If Fox is going downhill, with such a big audience, then what is the fate of MSNBC? For all the liberal noise, relatively few people watch MSNBC.
“then what is the fate of MSNBC?”
Just follow the money. If they lose advertisers, they will probably get support from deep pocket libs.
Recent poll by NBC/wsj (news corp) claimed bad poll numbers for GOP. Did not report they over sampled government workers....attempt to have GOP cave on debt.
The liberal audience is fragmented by watching all the other channels. If you add them all together, wouldn’t they beat Fox?
Seeing may not be genius, but taking action now to be ready then when others don’t may be genius. I am hoping for more geniuses to act. It is a bad thing to only have one tv news outlet that is not entirely owned by the left.
Glen Beck was not so crazy after all, I think he saw this coming...
According to ratings I’ve seen, Fox has higher ratings than CNN, Headline News, CNBC, and MSNBC combined. This suggests that there’s a great audience for something besides the usual liberal blathering blathering.
Farah’s correct. And the implosion of Fox News is not necessarily predicated on the death of Murdoch or Ailes.
Fox is becoming (or has become) as mainstream as the other news agencies.
Excellent reply.
Fox has always beaten the other lefty networks 8 years straight by my count according to mediaite. They’re doing fine compared to MSNBC which is really hard to watch.
But i don’t watch FNC. They lean left by my rightwing standards.
Beck was/is the alternate. Gore’s selling the TV channel to the Muslims’s instead of Beck, for the time being, cost us conservatives, an alternate to Fox News. Pray something and someone else comes along.
There already is an alternative...it’s called THE BlazeTV.
Although, I wish they had more than 5 programs that keep repeating all day long.
The problem is that the Blaze isnt a news network. The website barely ranks above old news mixed with feel-good stories, viral videos, biblical stuff, and cheesy ads for survival food/gold.
Anyone more worried about Joseph Farah & WorldNetDaily? I use to enjoy reading their articles.
I’ve been saying it is left of center for years. It’s fun to say it on liberal sites. It makes their heads explode.
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