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So people tell me Breitbart is a propaganda machine financed by political manipulators, but Fox is certainly run like a business. What is Fox doing to make thei

So people tell me Breitbart is a propaganda machine financed by political manipulators, but Fox is certainly run like a business. What is Fox doing to make their content free that NYT and WSJ can't t?

massivecali 8y ago
People believe that paying higher costs for something mean it is of higher value than that which is free. "You get what you pay for." But if you disagree with the content of a site, why would you pay for it in the first place?
autokad 8y ago
paywalls probably a huge part of it. I dont click paywalled sites
rabidrat 8y ago
Being owned and funded by right-wing billionaires.
1337biz 8y ago
Breitbart's staffing seems also incredibly small. I don't think they produce more than 10 stories per day, with most of them just rewrites of other stories and putting their ideological spin to it. You can do this with maybe 3-5 editors and some freelancers. I suspect they are highly profitable.
sharkvszombie 8y ago
Running an extremely profitable cable news channel. Their content isn't free, their web content is free and is paid for by their cable channel.
Mirioron 8y ago
I don't know whether Breitbart is propaganda or not. I've only read a handful of articles from it, but from the few I've seen, I like that they source their statements with hyperlinks. Take this one for example: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/15/italy-criticized-joining-chinas-belt-road-project/ https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/15/italy... When the text says that Reuters published an article about a topic they actually link to it. I wish other news sites did the same.
IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Paying journalists to research and report the truth...
CamperBob2 8y ago
News is basically a loss leader for Fox. Their actual business purpose is something else entirely. If I said what that was, it would appear that I was trying to start a political flame war on HN, so I won't. But most people here know what it is anyway. Eventually, Bezos, Slim, and the Sulzbergers will have to decide what business they're in, just as Murdoch already has. Paywalls are not going to play a role in that business, and I frankly don't understand why they're bothering with them now.
hanging 8y ago
Disney is acquiring Fox News effective within a month.
- Redoubts 8y ago
  That was spun off, and not sold to Disney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation

massivecali 8y ago

People believe that paying higher costs for something mean it is of higher value than that which is free. "You get what you pay for." But if you disagree with the content of a site, why would you pay for it in the first place?

autokad 8y ago

paywalls probably a huge part of it. I dont click paywalled sites

rabidrat 8y ago

Being owned and funded by right-wing billionaires.

1337biz 8y ago

Breitbart's staffing seems also incredibly small. I don't think they produce more than 10 stories per day, with most of them just rewrites of other stories and putting their ideological spin to it. You can do this with maybe 3-5 editors and some freelancers. I suspect they are highly profitable.

sharkvszombie 8y ago

Running an extremely profitable cable news channel. Their content isn't free, their web content is free and is paid for by their cable channel.

Mirioron 8y ago

I don't know whether Breitbart is propaganda or not. I've only read a handful of articles from it, but from the few I've seen, I like that they source their statements with hyperlinks. Take this one for example: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/15/italy-criticized-joining-chinas-belt-road-project/ https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/15/italy... When the text says that Reuters published an article about a topic they actually link to it. I wish other news sites did the same.

IkmoIkmo 8y ago

Paying journalists to research and report the truth...

CamperBob2 8y ago

News is basically a loss leader for Fox. Their actual business purpose is something else entirely. If I said what that was, it would appear that I was trying to start a political flame war on HN, so I won't. But most people here know what it is anyway. Eventually, Bezos, Slim, and the Sulzbergers will have to decide what business they're in, just as Murdoch already has. Paywalls are not going to play a role in that business, and I frankly don't understand why they're bothering with them now.

hanging 8y ago

Disney is acquiring Fox News effective within a month.

Redoubts 8y ago
That was spun off, and not sold to Disney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation