My conversation with a news director at Fox
About twenty years ago I was working on a project for a local TV station that was acquired by Fox and wanted to start a news program. During one of my discussions with the news team, the director casually remarked that a news program is really just an excuse to bring an audience to an advertiser.
I've never forgotten that, and it totally makes sense every time I see a snippet of an interview or a commentator on Fox. Granted, the snippets I see are mostly "courtesy of" a late-night show or a news article, so they're already edited. But if Fox's intention is to generate controversy and anger to get viewers to watch their shows and therefore their commercials, then a lot of what they say and how they say it makes perfect sense.
So, being a cynical SOB, I have to wonder if it's all (or partly) an act. This morning, for instance, I saw a clip of Tucker Carlson (via Trevor Noah via HuffPost) interviewing somebody and making statements like "Those kids aren't old enough to buy guns. Why should they make my gun laws?" and "They aren't citizens; they're kids." He came across like he was just saying it, but those statements sound like they were very carefully scripted to get people riled up. Get riled up = keep watching = watch the commercials. Maybe?
I'll have to catch Fox on TV one of these days to find out who their advertisers are. It might be interesting.
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