Recently MSNBC admitted they have a 'leftist' bias and has high hopes of turning into the Fox News of the Progressive Cause. MSNBC isn't going progressive. We won't have news channels that accurate portray the viewpoint that most of America believes in because, at heart, propaganda of the 24/7 news channel variety isn't informative but instructive. If you need a 24/7 news channel to tell you want to think, then you don't really hold political opinions as much as you're a political fanboy. As such, any 'liberal' news channel will fail because they don't need a sounding board to be 'right' or 'correct' or to reinforce any pointless views that make you part of 'the team.' I don't need a team to tell me that my views are correct. That's stuff you need if you're a brainless lunatic that has to live in the middle of a cornfield because you're too fucking scared to interact with people.
The thing we should take away from this is that the Fox News pandering scheme is going out of style because it's unprofitable. Not enough eyes are watching the nonsense anymore, and the real power holders--the advertisers--are pulling out. There's a reason why you have infomericals decorating the channel, and it's not because of an easy buck. They're the only ones left, and they're the only ones who can bother. The bright side is that a lot of people are either getting sick of the negativity or have hit the wall when it comes to the antics being pulled. The brighter side is that news channels are seeing Fox News as an example of overreach instead of a profitable business model, meaning a possible change away from the fear tactics used for about ten years.
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