Fox: dying or alive and well?

[ydoaPs]

Will FOX survive the fall of Murdoch's media empire?

[Realitycheck]

They had it coming, if so. I kept wondering why Obama kept stating that "Fox isn't really a news agency". Was it just because of all of the conservative bias, or because of all of Murdoch's sensationalist affiliates bleeding over to help stain Fox? I think the fact that practically every one of Fox's articles contained a disclaimer like "so and so made a revelation but remained anonymous because they were not authorized to talk to the media" was a factor. Possibly because the information obtained was through a cellphone wiretap? Which is completely legal to all in the U.S.? I think maybe there is more to the story which remains to be found.

[Moontanman]

Will FOX survive the fall of Murdoch's media empire?

 

 

Yes, Fox will survive, it has no heart to drive a wooden stake through...

[padren]

What Fox is means different things to different people, so whether those properties that define Fox survive depends on what you think those are.

 

 

Barring some major revelations, I suspect Fox News will probably survive largely unchanged. As a nation the US rarely demands any serious accountability from corporations - we expect to hear about them committing crimes, and about underlings taking the heat for what everyone believes are "from the top" crimes (when justified, and when not) but our expectations are so low we're just happy when someone reports that "we're right" to be pissed about it, even if it's reported by a fake news on a comedy network.

 

The closest we come to that is threatening to defund organizations that receive taxpayer money, but even then the charge is always led by those who are always trying to defund those organizations - just with some added momentary populism.