Newsmax CEO Wants To Combat Fox News With Conservative Cable Channel

[Capt. Obvious]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Fox's monopoly on conservative cable news may soon come to an end.

A Bloomberg Businessweek profile published Thursday revealed Newsmax.com founder and CEO Christopher Ruddy's plans to expand beyond his highly-trafficked website and influential magazine into television with a 24-hour cable news channel called NewsmaxTV -- described as a "kinder, gentler Fox" -- launching as early as June.

“Our goal is to be a little more boomer-oriented, more information-based rather than being vituperative and polarizing,” Ruddy told the magazine.

Newsmax.com already broadcasts NewsmaxTV segments online for three hours a day, featuring interviews conducted by conservative radio host Steve Malzberg. But Ruddy sees an opening in the cable news market for a conservative audience that feels Fox has turned too far to the right.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/newsmax_ceo_wants_to_challenge_fox_news_with_cable_channel

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A kinder, gentler Fox News where we race bait even more.

[DonViejo]

1. Good. Let the wing nut millionaires fight over this

and divide the audience that is hooked on Fox. You just know that the assorted hosts will battle each other with name calling, bitterness and their collective stupidity.

[Dustlawyer]

2. They will still be interviewing the likes of Lindsey Graham and John McCain so it

will still be nut ball propaganda (light)!

[wandy]

3. Just what we all need..........

One more bunch of sources giving a soap box to various right wing loudmouths that should in any sane universe be foaming at the mouth from the safety of a padded cell.

NEWSMAX! We sell better crazy here!

And we will just pay Comcast whatever it takes to have the bandwidth to do it!

[Gigi_1985]

28. And then there are the rightwing FoxNews lovin blogs

I hate this group especially. Talk about loudmouths.... they are vile. Check out this:

http://victorygirlsblog.com/?p=18509

[wandy]

30. And then thats that old thing about baiting bears........

Or messing with bulls.
Ya know what they say.........
Ya mess with the bull ya get the horns.

One for one. Nice!
Thats once.

[hobbit709]

4. I can see it now. The Battle To Outstupid Each Other.

[SoapBox]

11. And millions of mindless Americans will believe every word.

[liberal N proud]

5. They can play "I can be dumber than you can"

[Berlum]

6. The Repubbies desperately need a new lie machine on climate change, Benghazi, IRS

The Fox, Inc. (R) lies are by now lamely obvious even to the Usual Sucker-Proles.

Max Lies, Inc. (R) may be just the thing pump the Sucker-Proles up again with some fresh, new exciting lies.

[Javaman]

7. battle of the network stupids. nt

[DFW]

8. A "kinder, gentler" right wing "news" station than Fox?

First of all, if it's anything like the Newsmax website, it won't be any less rabid than Fox.

"Kinder, gentler" than Fox is like saying a Great White shark is a kinder, gentler carnivore than a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Maybe a little less ferocious in scope, but only due to someone else having been bigger first.

[mountain grammy]

9. Let the lying liars begin their battle for more hearts and minds (?) of Americans.

May they roll themselves up into a big ball of hate and venom and explode.. like their hero, Andrew Brietbart!

[Archae]

10. There used to be just such a network.

It was called "National Empowerment Television."

Even though they were a commercial network, they ended up needing to do fundraising.

[valerief]

12. Isn't the "kinder, gentler Fox" called CNN??? The LAST thing we need are more conservatives on air.

[freshwest]

20. +1,000

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Exactly

This isn't good news. They won't drive each other out of business. they will only "legitimize" each other. Strength in numbers.

The reality is that there will now be an even greater percentage of corporate media that is slanted to the hard right. Fox News gets a lot of flack from the likes of Jon Stewart. It is singled out as a lone freak show. Two news networks spewing the same lies will only give the casual viewer the impression that what they say must be truth. Heck, they'll probably even use each other as in: "Some news sources say ....the Democrats are all sexual deviants and Muslim loving terrorists" (or some such statement)

[Dopers_Greed]

13. How will Newsmax even come up with enough guests to fill airtime?

Aren't the wingnuts already on 24/7 call for Faux appearances?

[YOHABLO]

25. They'll give Ann Coulter her own show!

[dlwickham]

26. that's terrifying

[Turbineguy]

14. That should be fun!

[Kelvin Mace]

15. Huh?

But Ruddy sees an opening in the cable news market for a conservative audience that feels Fox has turned too far to the right.

Newsmax is to the left of Fox?

In what universe?

[JHB]

31. The universe called "marketing"...

...because "fair & balanced" is already taken.

[cosmicone]

16. Motto: "We lie better and we are angrier" n/t

[kimbutgar]

17. I doubt they will get new viewers only the same ones who watch Fox, the blaze or prison planet

The same old talking points hate speech lies etc how boring and tiring.


But haters got to hate.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Great news for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Maher!

Two channels to mine comedy material from!

[jmowreader]

19. I've read this asshole's website. Good luck with the kinder & gentler thing.

[tableturner]

21. This will scatter conservative viewers and thus weaken Fox's influence....

Yes.....I like it because it will scatter conservative viewers and thus weaken Fox's influence.

[Qutzupalotl]

24. or double it.

[The Wizard]

23. Newsmax

was owned by Murdoch. When was it sold?

[Phlem]

27. While that's all well and dandy,

Where's the liberal version of either one?

No, I'm not including MSNBC.

On prime time even.

I'm thinking if we keep getting dinged for the "liberal media" let's really give them something to bitch about.



-p

[Cleita]

29. If they become information based, they can't be conservative. Just saying. n/t

[pstokely]

32. How loyal are the old Faux viewers

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[KamaAina]

33. "Fox's monopoly on conservative cable news may soon come to an end."

It came to an end when the Corporate News Network started aping them several years ago.

[Orsino]

35. We need something more than Roger Ailes' point of view.

Probably the point of view of one of Ailes' frequent dinner companions. Amything to break up this monopoly, right?

[Orsino]

34. Billionaires: There aren't enough right-wing TV channels.

We want to make supply-side poor-kicking and race-baiting "groovy" and "cool," or whatever our consultants say the kids today are calling it.

[Hosnon]

36. This will only work to legitimize FOXNews.

Their existence will shift the Overton window and make FOXNews appear more mainstream.

Edit: Nevermind, my mistake. This will apparently be to the left of FOXNews.