{"id":24025,"date":"2014-12-22T12:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24025"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:01:13","slug":"its-a-war-on-christmas-miracle-a-world-without-rupert-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24025","title":{"rendered":"It’s A (War On) Christmas Miracle: A World Without Rupert Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subscribers to the Dish Network woke up this weekend to find that the level of ignorance and dishonesty that is pumped into their homes by their television provider had dropped precipitously. Due to a contract dispute<\/a> between Dish and Fox News the network pulled their programming depriving the Dish subscribers of the feast of lies and propaganda that dominate Fox’s schedule.<\/p>\n

\"Wonderful<\/p>\n

For many viewers it is a Christmas wish come true. Of course, for many others it is like being unable to connect to their supplier of wingnut crack.<\/p>\n

Fox is mounting a campaign to denigrate Dish and blame them for the stalled contract talks. But what Fox isn’t tell you is that they are using the negotiations to add new Fox networks to Dish’s service and triple the fees for their sports channels (which would likely result in higher rates for customers as those increases are passed on). Neither of those issues are a part of the current contract that is up for renewal. So this is a case of Fox attempting to strong-arm Dish into capitulating to their demands and using Fox News as the cudgel. Further evidence of this is that Dish offered Fox a short-term extension to keep the network on the air while negotiations continued, but Fox turned them down.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this holiday good news has been tempered by an utterly boneheaded decision by Dish to temporarily replace the blacked-out Fox News channel with Glenn Beck’s The Blaze. That’s a little like pulling a fork out of your eye and replacing it with an ax. And you can rest assured that Beck will take full advantage of this accidental good fortune to escalate his lunacy to much larger and dumbfounded Fox audience. That oughta be fun.<\/p>\n

Still, the notion of a Fox-free Christmas holds some appeal. It means that Dish subscribers will have to look elsewhere to be indoctrinated into the latest Fox scams. The result for many families is that their holiday gatherings may be free of Fox-itized relatives dampening the festivities with their conspiracy theories, hoax peddling, and hate mongering. It’s a prospect that was brilliantly imagined by the comedy team of Fry & Laurie (yes, that was Hugh Laurie of TV’s “House”<\/em> fame). They produced a hilarious short film inspired by the classic \u201cIt\u2019s A Wonderful Life,\u201d<\/em> that had a look at the world if Rupert Murdoch had never been born.<\/p>\n

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