Sarah Palin's Low-Budget TV Channel Is Pricier Than Netflix

[Eugene]

Source: The Atlantic

Sarah Palin's Low-Budget TV Channel Is Pricier Than Netflix

Behind the paywall at the most rigorous infotainment site ever launched by a half-term governor of Alaska.

CONOR FRIEDERSDORF JUL 28 2014, 6:56 AM ET

Sarah Palin is returning to her roots in low-budget television–but this time, she's on the web, the focus is American politics, and she owns the network. The Sarah Palin Channel launched Sunday, asking prospective viewers for 9.95 per month–96 cents more than Netflix–or 99.95 a year. (No word on whether subscribers get money back if Palin decides to stick with the project for only half of that term.) The cost is the same as the web TV channel run by Glenn Beck, a role model for wealthy media figures who hope to monetize the cult of personality they've built up by expertly playing to the cultural affinities and anxieties of Red America.

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Leading the home page, one finds a video monologue of Palin pontificating on events that she can observe from her Alaska home, which is to say, Vladimir Putin's Russia. As she speaks, the video alternates between a shot of her on the same set as the welcome video and still photographs that seem to be from a wire service. At first, it seemed like Palin was trying to provide her own take on a Vox explainer:

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[alsame]

1. Nutflix. nt

[meow2u3]

2. DUzy!

[cyberswede]

5. *snerk*

[Bobbie Jo]

8. Exactly.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Calling a website with embeded videos a 'TV Channel' seems very generous toward Palin

Does Skinner also own a TV Channel? Am I typing on a TV channel right now?

[rurallib]

4. it will be in the bargain pile just like her books soon enough

[bigdarryl]

6. She's nuts if she thinks I'm going to pay to here and see her spewing of the President

Of coarse there will be stupid republicans who will pay this fee to help make ignorant Palin richer.

[Sunlei]

7. a paywall site, eh?. bet she has some kind of plan to funnel 'campaign donations' into her personal

bank. TV paychecks for the whole clan. legal of course.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Doesn't she get plenty of free coverage for her every excited uttarance?

And it's not like the so-called "lamestream media" even calls her out on anything ever.

[whistler162]

10. Sorry but according to the

50 shades of gray rule you aren't allowed to critize the new channel unless you have seen it!

[Terra Alta]

11. I give it six months

before she quits.

[RussBLib]

12. If she'd only promise some nudity, her membership would skyrocket

wouldn't be much of a stretch from what she's doing now