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Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:26 PM Feb 2017

Idea for an alternative News network.

With the deplorables threatening to boycott Fixed Noise because it isn't sufficiently obsequious and sycophantic to their Dear Leader, maybe a syndicate of rich lefties ought to start one they can turn to.

Steal the RW audience. Give them all the fake news they want. Solicit donations and sell them all kinds of crap merch. (Donate any profits to lefty causes.)

Then, after they've all become loyal viewers, turn on them. Tell them they've been blatantly hoodwinked and show them the lies they believed and the truth they were trying to hide from.

There are a million ways this could be done cleverly and ultimately to the detriment of the RW.

OK, I'm sure there are also a million reasons this is a silly and impractical idea, but still. I can dream.

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Idea for an alternative News network. (Original Post) Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 OP
Ideas are cheap. News networks are very expensive indeed. MineralMan Feb 2017 #1
I take it this means Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #2
No, sorry. MineralMan Feb 2017 #3

MineralMan

(146,308 posts)
1. Ideas are cheap. News networks are very expensive indeed.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:28 PM
Feb 2017

If they were easy and inexpensive, there would be more of them.

Finally, it's not that easy to attract an audience. Truly it's not.

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