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Atman

(31,464 posts) Wed Mar 12, 2014, 07:38 AM Mar 2014

Oh no...NEWSMAX starting 24hr news channel

Announced on Morning Scum. Now we'll have TWO Fox Newses. Their spokesman is saying they'll target an "older" audience than internet audience.

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Oh no...NEWSMAX starting 24hr news channel (Original Post) Atman Mar 2014 OP

Good! They will put FAUX out of business Glitterati Mar 2014 #1

"When getting inFOXicated just doesn't give you that high - dudgeon - anymore... JHB Mar 2014 #2

Read about their plan last week, right here on DU Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #3

It depends on their billionaire-support level JHB Mar 2014 #4

They'd have to determine that Newsmax was a good investment el_bryanto Mar 2014 #5

It's way more complex than that. There is, however, something of a cottage industry Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #10

Can't have enough Koch Bros funded, pro-plutocracy propaganda outlets in the U.S. BlueCaliDem Mar 2014 #6

our media is so deep in the shit hole, another faux won't matter...media is lost. spanone Mar 2014 #7

Yes, because Fox News is too liberal Gothmog Mar 2014 #8

Clearly, for those who think Fox News is WAY too liberal! bullwinkle428 Mar 2014 #9

... and by "24hr news" they mean that a year's worth of broadcasts will contain 24hrs of news. n/t winter is coming Mar 2014 #11

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)

1. Good! They will put FAUX out of business

Reply to Atman (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 07:44 AM

Mar 2014

All the whackadoos will race to the nut channel!

JHB

(38,138 posts)

2. "When getting inFOXicated just doesn't give you that high - dudgeon - anymore...

Reply to Atman (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 07:50 AM

Mar 2014

...come to NEWSMAX and mainline it! Do you love Freedom? Are you the Conservative Base? Then you're one of us! A Freebaser! NEWSMAX: Get the straight smack!"

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

3. Read about their plan last week, right here on DU

Reply to Atman (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 07:53 AM

Mar 2014

I'll be surprised if they launch, shocked if they launch and survive 6 months.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014746845

JHB

(38,138 posts)

4. It depends on their billionaire-support level

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:05 AM

Mar 2014

The biggest evangelists of the "free market" don't live in one.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

5. They'd have to determine that Newsmax was a good investment

Reply to JHB (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:11 AM

Mar 2014

I.E. Either they are reaching people they aren't with Fox News or they are able to have a more pure distillation of their message than with Fox News (in such a way that that purity benefits them).

Bryant

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

10. It's way more complex than that. There is, however, something of a cottage industry

Reply to JHB (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 09:17 AM

Mar 2014

among conservatives around trying to make such deals. Here's the 2010 version....

Kelsey Grammer backs new conservative TV network

Kelsey Grammer is the front man in the RightNetwork, a new politically conservative TV network. First programs include 'Right2Laugh,' featuring stand up comedians, and 'Running' about Tea Party-backed candidates running for office.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/From-the-Wires/2010/0909/Kelsey-Grammer-backs-new-conservative-TV-network