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This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that. Perhaps Mike Judge could produce it? Something in the article seems to support just how fungible the CNN and Fox
by bogomipz 5y ago
This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that. Perhaps Mike Judge could produce it? Something in the article seems to support just how fungible the CNN and Fox cable news-tainment duopoly is. They increasingly appear to be just two sides of the same news-tainment coin:
>"CNN wooed big-name talent, including Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, to join the service."
In a NYTimes profile from last year Chis Wallace stated:
>"I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox."[1].
It's worth noting that he was at Fox for 18 years. It's amusing to think that his move to the CNN streaming service just happened to coincide with his breaking point after almost two decades. I believe CNN also made an offer to Megan Fox after she exited Fox News.
My impression of CNN the last few years was that they seemed to be they spending an inordinate amount of time talking about whatever outrageous thing a Fox host just said on air. It's all rather dystopian and meta. The article hints that Discovery would like them to focus on hard-jouralism but I can't recall the last time CNN was hard-journalism. The Ted Turner years, the first Gulf war?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/business/media/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/business/media/chris-wall...
- prasadjoglekar 5y agoIt's not a dupoloy at all. Fox cable handily beats CNN and MSNBC in daily ratings. Only thing beating Fox is the mainline broadcast networks' evening news.
- bogomipz 5y agoI didn't mean an actual economic duopoly, that was sarcasm. I meant a duopoly in the sense of two poles of the political spectrum that each seems to cater to exclusively.
- rayiner 5y agoThe Ted Turner years were great just generally. https://www.tedsmontanagrill.com/ https://www.tedsmontanagrill.com/
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThe switch came with the W administration and the ramp up of conservative rhetoric.
- wolverine876 5y ago> Perhaps Mike Judge could produce it? Matt Stone and Trey Parker.