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What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose"
Trumpism needs Fox News more than Fox needs Trump. But there are around 73 million reasons for Fox to stick with it
By MELANIE MCFARLAND
NOVEMBER 14, 2020 12:00AM
(Salon) In the recent past a person may have dared to imagine a world with a significantly muted Donald Trump. Nearly 78 million voters pushed to make that a reality, spurred on in no small part by the desire to simply shut him up. That's understandable. The man takes up a lot of mental real estate whether people want him to or adamantly do not.
However, that dream is predicated on the notion that the media organizations serving as Trump's megaphone Fox News, in the main would wean themselves off of the endless mutual ego-stroking that joined man and network at the hip over the last five years.
But with around 73 million voters indicating their comfort with another four years of Trump's madness, the one certainty is that while Trump may recede from the center of our lives, Trumpism isn't going anywhere. The difference, at least for Fox, will be in finding and anointing the next star for the right wing to rally around.
On its face, that idea doesn't quite wash. Trump insists on starring in anything that bears his name, including the political movement he birthed. Logically Trumpism cannot exist without the grifter for which it is named.
....(snip)....
Multiple reports have indicated that Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch and the network have been preparing for a post-Trump world for a long time, which means they're to sell the scorn that a Biden presidency will yield. Already the election's outcome, which the prime time hosts still have not acknowledged, has already provided some primo absurdist scaremongering. (If you haven't watched Carlson's warning to middle America that liberals want everyone to drink Starbucks, do treat yourself.) Post-inauguration, we may witness Trump appearing on Fox with diminished frequency, but Fox's ability to incite its audience's wrath against the left is eternal. And that is what Trumpism thrives upon. .........(more)
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/13/fox-news-trump-whats-next/
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What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose" (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2020
OP
Attack! Attack! Attack! Targets: Biden. Harris. Pelosi. Schumer. AOC and Squad. Deficit spending.
Midnight Writer
Nov 2020
#6
Enterstageleft
(3,389 posts)1. By tRump supporters...
The "Golden Turd Award".
Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)2. They can lavish
praise on their Russian overlords.
oasis
(49,150 posts)3. Trump's looking more like a grey goose. nt
calguy
(5,222 posts)4. Fox, unfortunately, will do just fine.
The Biden bashers will be the new wave on Fox.
LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)5. I think trump will build a network and fail.
Even Oprah found starting a network is hard even for real or fake billionaires.
Midnight Writer
(21,540 posts)6. Attack! Attack! Attack! Targets: Biden. Harris. Pelosi. Schumer. AOC and Squad. Deficit spending.
lettucebe
(2,336 posts)7. They won't leave Fox. They were Fox viewers before tRump supporters
People think the entire repug voting block is all-in for tRump. I don't agree. I think the vast majority are simply brainwashed that they cannot vote for dems, period. The vast majority are not insane MAGA hat wearing nut-jobs.
Them thinking they need these voters is pretty stupid, and I think Fox is smarter than the entire Repug party.