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First Advertiser Pulls Ads From Sean Hannity’s Fox News Show

Slayven

Member
When you make a pact with a demon, the benefits usually only last a set number of years. When the hellhounds came to drag Roger Ailes to hell the deal was up.

Damn
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So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

FBI investigation ongoing, 15 cases of sexual assault ongoing, multiple racial cases ongoing, not reporting on major events at all, one of the biggest gatekeepers keeping things on placed ousted and now dead and rotting in hell, and ratings in key demographics steadily dropping.

Not really a big mystery honestly lol
 
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

It's because they have taken things to the extreme. In the past Fox was careful about directly spreading bullshit on their channel. They only did it indirectly. Now they are full blown conspiracy news channel. The type of low tier level garbage you find in tabloids.
 
murdoch kids just need one tiny reason to oust another conservative from the network and then fox news totally changes.

Nobody is expecting miracles, but with Republicans now being done with the 'Russia presents: alternative reality coup', it stands to reason that the alternate reality business model is already in a death spiral. I know that's what we were saying before the election too about the GOP, but the barrage of shit seems to become too much for shit mountain to deal with, making the fakier news aimed at conservatives game collapse under its own weight.

Ironically that is very similar to how Bernie Maddoff went down: not because of the guys who'd been telling the officials about it for years (literally!), but due to the financial crisis making it impossible for him to continue. His scheme collapsed under its own weight.

Hopefully that is where that's going at least.
 

MisterHero

Super Member
It's no fun if people are actually pushing for it to happen.

The good stuff is when the execs realize things for themselves.
 

opoth

Banned
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

Someone here compared it to the final season of Breaking Bad. You would think that all the pieces are in place to succeed wildly at their evil agenda but everything seems to be imploding now that Obama isn't their boogeyman anymore.
 
At this point, he is going out especially looking at his recent Twitter message where he indirectly threatened Fox by saying that his fans will leave the channel if he leaves.
 

Fantastapotamus

Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

Because defending the Trump administration is pushing them to the extremes.
It was easy criticizing Obama and not that hard to defend Bush. Defending Trump is on a whole different level.
 
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

Basically, without Ailes, O'Reilly, Kelly, and others, Fox has lost all their best bullshit artists.

And to make matters worse, they were banking on Hillary winning so that they could win viewers by being the anti-hillary network, but Trump won and every hates Trump, but they are sucking up to Trump which viewers don't want.

Finally, advertisers don't like conspiracy theorists.
 

HotHamBoy

Member
Basically, without Ailes, O'Reilly, Kelly, and others, Fox has lost all their best bullshit artists.

And to make matters worse, they were banking on Hillary winning so that they could win viewers by being the anti-hillary network, but Trump won and every hates Trump, but they are sucking up to Trump which viewers don't want.

Finally, advertisers don't like conspiracy theorists.

Pretty much. Just like Republicans, it's a lot easier to be the critic.
 

HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

They need an enemy so when they're in charge they have nothing to rally the troops against. The democrats being mostly quiet and letting Trump and the GOP shoot themselves on a near daily basis leaves the likes of Fox News unable to really do what they did for 8 years of Obama unless they were to turn on Trump but of course, that's not happening. Well not anytime soon.
 
At this point, he is going out especially looking at his recent Twitter message where he indirectly threatened Fox by saying that his fans will leave the channel if he leaves.

Yeah. He's asking to be fired when he's supporting taking viewers from Fox in his inevitable dismissal. Though I did get a good laugh out of how much of a douche he comes off as.
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Eusis

Member
They need an enemy so when they're in charge they have nothing to rally the troops against. The democrats being mostly quiet and letting Trump and the GOP shoot themselves on a near daily basis leaves the likes of Fox News unable to really do what they did for 8 years of Obama unless they were to turn on Trump but of course, that's not happening. Well not anytime soon.
I also have to imagine that when it comes time to play defense Bush can more easily be rationalized as trying to keep the country safe or just doing the typical conservative stuff that they'd eat up and we'd hate. Trump though, he's just looking straight up treasonous and delusional.
 

CazTGG

Member
Basically, without Ailes, O'Reilly, Kelly, and others, Fox has lost all their best bullshit artists.

And to make matters worse, they were banking on Hillary winning so that they could win viewers by being the anti-hillary network, but Trump won and every hates Trump, but they are sucking up to Trump which viewers don't want.

Finally, advertisers don't like conspiracy theorists.

Don't they still have Tucker Carlson and a bunch of other creepy sexist dudes to spout the usual talking points?
 

sphagnum

Banned
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

They had 9/11 in the 2000s to rally around when Bush was in office, then Obama to hate for 8 years. Now people watch CNN and MSNBC because they hate Trump. Plus they keep losing people due to scandals and Murdoch's less conservative sons have taken over. Also Breitbart stole the craziest part of their base.
 
Don't they still have Tucker Carlson and a bunch of other creepy sexist dudes to spout the usual talking points?

Yeah, but none of them are as good at doing then those leaving. Carlson is the biggest loser in the fucking world. The fact that he's the primetime man now must make someone on the high ladder at Fox cry.
 

riotous

Banned
So confused as to why fox news is falling apart of all the times it could have fallen apart

I think they have a 2-pronged problem.

- The "right" in the US has continued to split into 2 fairly different groups, your old school diet racism / i just don't want to pay taxes GOPers and the white nationalist alt-right. 5-8 years ago this split was more between "classic GOPers" and "tea partiers", who really you could target the same TV shows/personalities at because they weren't much different, and neither really offended the other. But it's gotten to the point where if you want to target "the right" in the US you either have to pick one group, or target both and possibly piss everyone off... the classic GOPers will think you've gone too far, and the alt-righters will think you are just another pawn of the liberal media. And of course, if you target the alt-right too much you'll drum up controversy and lose advertisers.

- As all of this is happening Fox News' parent company, under Rupert Murdoch, has been attempting to buy out Sky News. Due to actually having real regulations in the UK, as opposed to the "aww shucks, say what you want and call it news and buy what you want" US FCC, they actually have to try to appease UK regulators and critics by appearing not being complete dirtbags. Rupert during all of this has given more and more power to his sons, who are actually possibly quite a bit more liberal and less loonie than he is. So rather than bury every sexual harassment allegation ever under a giant pile of dead hookers and falafel loofahs they are actually letting people go over that kind of thing.

The first point is my own theory, the second one has been discussed in the news : https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...oreilly-could-appease-critics-of-the-sky-deal
 
FBI investigation ongoing, 15 cases of sexual assault ongoing, multiple racial cases ongoing, not reporting on major events at all, one of the biggest gatekeepers keeping things on placed ousted and now dead and rotting in hell, and ratings in key demographics steadily dropping.

Not really a big mystery honestly lol

so basically the place was always a dumpster full of trash soaked in gasoline and it was just a matter of time before someone threw a cigarette butt into it
 
Guys, you don't understand. Hannity's acting the way he is because there is no more noble death for a member of FOX and their friends than to be sacrificed for the greater profit margin. To die at the hands of the free market is to surely have his place in Valhalla.

You can bray and shriek all you like, but to stand against the unwashed hordes and proclaim, "Go on without me--I'll hold them off and accept culpability to maintain our standing with advertisers!" is a glorious end for a true believer.
 
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