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Is this a sign that Fox is going more Trumpy/to the right? I wonder if it also signals that CNN is trying to appeal more to conservatives?
by dsizzle 5y ago
Is this a sign that Fox is going more Trumpy/to the right?
I wonder if it also signals that CNN is trying to appeal more to conservatives?
- PhoenixReborn 5y agoI would guess more so the latter. Fox has been going more to the right for a few years now, but CNN has really been fading out especially with the recent scandals hitting Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. Their core audience is older centrist-leaning folks and securing someone like Chris Wallace may help them bring over some center-right viewers from Fox.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y ago> Fox has been going more to the right for a few years now A few decades now...
- dave78 5y agoI used to think of CNN as fairly centrist (or at least more "straight news"), but haven't they leaned pretty heavily into the hard-left lately, especially with moving to more opinion-based shows? It doesn't seem like it's very controversial to say that Cuomo, Lemon, and Stelter are pretty obviously leftists? Maybe this is an omission from CNN that moving to the left with opinion shows was a mistake and represents a move back to hard news again. Isn't Wallace considered more of a centrist reporter? Disclaimer: I don't watch Fox or CNN other than occasionally seeing it in an office or when visiting someone's house?
- setpatchaddress 5y agoNote that the precipitating event was Wallace’s Fox contract coming to an end. This wasn’t ideological ragequit. But this probably is a consequence of Fox having gone full Trumpy/facist (see: Tucker Carlson) and CNN willing to buy names for their new streaming service, which I think they correctly view as the future of live news (if there is a future outside of TikTok or TikTok-alikes).