{"id":11621,"date":"2014-03-06T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2014-03-06T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T22:48:00","slug":"another-right-wing-cable-news-network-to-challenge-liberal-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11621","title":{"rendered":"Another Right-Wing Cable News Network To Challenge ‘Liberal’ Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite having the top rated cable news network in the country, and a ridiculously undue influence over much of the rest of the mainstream media, conservatives are still not satisfied with their stranglehold on the press. That’s the only explanation for why they keep launching new right-wing cable news networks to compete with Fox News.<\/p>\n

Most of these competing enterprises complain that Fox News has betrayed their cause and defected to the enemy liberal camp. Thus the necessity of forming a new network that is devoted to the true conservative agenda that Fox has abandoned. The disappointment with Fox’s brand of conservatism has stirred a flurry of challengers and even a boycott by some determined Tea Party “Fire Ants.”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest entry<\/a> in the field is the ultra-rightist webzine, Newsmax. The CEO of Newsmax, Chris Ruddy, has a staunchly conservative resume going back to the days when he opposed the Clintons and accused them of murdering their friend Vince Foster. These days Ruddy claims to be on more friendly terms with his former adversaries and is positioning his NewsmaxTV as a “kinder, gentler Fox News.”<\/em> But It’s hard to see where NewsmaxTV will succeed in the wake of the other recent attempts to pry wingnuts and Tea Partiers away from Fox.<\/p>\n

In 2010, a project from Hollywood conservative (and Friend of Abe<\/a>) Kelsey Grammer and former Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider, was given a flashy fanfare<\/a> as it promised to bring conservative values to both news and entertainment programming. However, the RightNetwork never seemed to get past the website stage and today doesn’t even have that.<\/p>\n

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That was followed by the much hyped One America News Network<\/a> in March of 2013. One America was announced at last year’s CPAC with support from Herring Broadcasting and the “Moonie”<\/em> Washington Times. It’s founder, Charles Herring, said he was motivated by his perception that “the sources of national news tend to lean to the left…and all we have is Fox.”<\/em> So far, that has not proven to be a sufficient justification for a new right-leaning network.<\/p>\n

And now we have NewsmaxTV – a network that admits that much of its success will rely on the same advertising and hucksterism that fuels Newsmax. That business model is heavily reliant on two non-journalism revenue streams: 1) Selling the email lists of conservative pundits, and 2) Selling highly dubious nutritional “supplements”<\/em> and medical services. Business week described Newsmax as<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“…a smorgasbord of political, health, and financial information, self-help books, and even vitamin supplements constantly pushed through the website and e-mail lists. This eclectic array of products\u2014the company made $46 million in subscription revenue from its 17 newsletters and $6 million from vitamin supplements in 2013\u2014makes Newsmax less of a news business and more of a strange hybrid of the Heritage Foundation and Amway.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the rapidly expanding roster of competitors, Fox News is surely quaking in their Tea Party tri-corner hats and pilgrim boots as a result of this new player in the right-wing media circus. Keepe your eyes peeled because, if NewsmaxTV is anything like the efforts that preceded it, it isn’t going to be there for very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite having the top rated cable news network in the country, and a ridiculously undue influence over much of the rest of the mainstream media, conservatives are still not satisfied with their stranglehold on the press. That’s the only explanation for why they keep launching new right-wing cable news networks to compete with Fox News. 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