RSLudlum
02-12-2012, 11:25 PM
File under "Supposition": This article tries to give insight on what may be going on at FOX with recent changes in line-ups and staff.
Are Murdoch and Ailes worried enough about potential legal matters to be man-handled in such a manner?
Obviously, I don’t have the answer to that question, but what I do know is this: Within Obama’s first year as President, pressure of some sort, whether commercial, legal, political, or otherwise seems to have been brought on Fox News and Fox Business. I say this because two things have now happened of which you and I are uncomfortably aware: The lineups at Fox have been changed dramatically, including now the dropping of Glenn Beck, Eric Bolling, and Andrew Napolitano from the line-ups on the two networks. Arguably, these are the three most conservative or libertarian hosts on either of the networks with the possible exception of John Stossel, but his is only a weekly show...
At the same time as this all began, we saw that a number of contributors were brought to Fox News who reflected a much more left-leaning bias, including Jehmu Greene, and Sally Kohn, among others. Greene is a preposterous leftist whose rage is at times barely-restrained as she hurls her defenses of leftists around. Kohn is inexcusable, because she worked for the Soros-funded Center for Community Change. These are just two of a growing number of leftist trolls, just one step from Occupiers, now being picked up by Fox News as they ditch people like Andrew Napolitano? I’m afraid that given all of this, I have to conclude that something is happening, and I doubt it’s a business decision so much as one born of some sort of behind-the-scenes politics. The left wouldn’t want Fox News to go away if they thought they could convert it to their side, and slowly but surely, this seems to be the direction of the the network. While all of this remains supposition, I can’t help but worry a bit about it because so many center-left people have thought that Fox News was a “conservative” network, but in truth it was merely balanced with a slightly right-wing dialogue that would be more amenable to the establishment wing of the GOP.
http://markamerica.com/2012/02/12/whats-happening-to-fox-news/
Are Murdoch and Ailes worried enough about potential legal matters to be man-handled in such a manner?
Obviously, I don’t have the answer to that question, but what I do know is this: Within Obama’s first year as President, pressure of some sort, whether commercial, legal, political, or otherwise seems to have been brought on Fox News and Fox Business. I say this because two things have now happened of which you and I are uncomfortably aware: The lineups at Fox have been changed dramatically, including now the dropping of Glenn Beck, Eric Bolling, and Andrew Napolitano from the line-ups on the two networks. Arguably, these are the three most conservative or libertarian hosts on either of the networks with the possible exception of John Stossel, but his is only a weekly show...
At the same time as this all began, we saw that a number of contributors were brought to Fox News who reflected a much more left-leaning bias, including Jehmu Greene, and Sally Kohn, among others. Greene is a preposterous leftist whose rage is at times barely-restrained as she hurls her defenses of leftists around. Kohn is inexcusable, because she worked for the Soros-funded Center for Community Change. These are just two of a growing number of leftist trolls, just one step from Occupiers, now being picked up by Fox News as they ditch people like Andrew Napolitano? I’m afraid that given all of this, I have to conclude that something is happening, and I doubt it’s a business decision so much as one born of some sort of behind-the-scenes politics. The left wouldn’t want Fox News to go away if they thought they could convert it to their side, and slowly but surely, this seems to be the direction of the the network. While all of this remains supposition, I can’t help but worry a bit about it because so many center-left people have thought that Fox News was a “conservative” network, but in truth it was merely balanced with a slightly right-wing dialogue that would be more amenable to the establishment wing of the GOP.
http://markamerica.com/2012/02/12/whats-happening-to-fox-news/