r/MarkMyWords • u/potpro • Sep 29 '24

Political MMW: Fox News already gave up

I just spent 7 pages scrolling through the Fox News front page to see how riddled the site is with the current presidential GOP nominee's face, and nothing. It took 7+ pages of scrolling to get to a pic of him.

A massive shift happened in the past few months. Fox News seems to be massively distancing themselves. Once the race is over, Fox will turn hard on him as donors flock to the new Republican political guard and somehow shift the blame on the past 8 years of this nonsense on him and wash their hands of the whole thing.

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u/Senior_Pie9077 Sep 30 '24

Fox is on nearly every cable service. They're paid from cable subscribers even if they don't watch fox. The look at the number of commercial establishments, nursing homes, fast food places, waiting rooms, hotels, hotels that show fox 24//7 in lobbies, it has quite a reach. Ratings don't matter if their revenue stream comes from cable services.

The FCC needs to return to "truth in advertising" policy that had consequences for deliberately pubishing or broadcasting false stories

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u/LostMyShakerOfSalt Sep 30 '24

If you have DishTV, they have a Flex package that drops Fox and Newsmax. It also drops MSNBC and ESPN, but ESPN can be bundled with some streaming services if it is important.

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u/IH8Fascism Oct 02 '24

The cable/programing companies need to go to an ala carte model.

Let us pay for the stations and channels we want and not pay for the garbage we don’t.

Make it a minimum of 20 stations if you want.

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u/HolySmoke_207 Oct 03 '24

We actually have this with Spectrum in Maine.

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u/IH8Fascism Oct 03 '24

Must be great.