"someone from the Reality-Based World get on Fox News or NewsMax or OAN or any of the other places Mike Lee's voters get their news and actually say something about this"
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Wishcasting, ain't gonna happen. Fox News already saw what happens to their viewership when it no longer whole-heartedly supported the Amber Australopithecus and fi…
"someone from the Reality-Based World get on Fox News or NewsMax or OAN or any of the other places Mike Lee's voters get their news and actually say something about this"
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Wishcasting, ain't gonna happen. Fox News already saw what happens to their viewership when it no longer whole-heartedly supported the Amber Australopithecus and fired the cheerleader-in-chief Tucker Carlson.
Fox has at least partially capitulated to the demands of the MAGAverse knuckle draggers, and NewsMax nor OAN left the fold in the first place. Reality has no place on these, or any other hard right media sources, if they look to their bottom lines. The rubes must be appeased.
Chris Christie somehow got on all those outlets and said his piece. On every one he got something like acceptance of what he was saying from the hosts. It can be done if there's a will to do it.
And I think it's important to do it. I mean, it's like an antibiotic to this misinformation disease.
Right now, the infection just runs rampant because there's nothing fighting it.
Unfortunately, Gov Christie is an exception, as are the occasional Dems (other than RFK, Jr who is a DINO) who get invited on to face off against the talking heads. I believe that Christie would not have been invited to appear if he wasn't a primary candidate for the New GOP nomination for POTUS.
I agree that it is important for pols who disagree with the direction of the Repub party to get on-air time, but without an invite they won't appear on any of the prime time opinion/editorialist shows (these are not news shows by any stretch of the imagination) -- and these invites are rare. Most often it appears that these invites are for the purpose of denigrating the guest for the entertainment of the audience.
As I said, these media sources are pandering to the MAGAverse. A loss in viewership not only detrimentally affects the rates charged for advertising, it also leads to lower carriage fees; both anathemas to their profitability.
"someone from the Reality-Based World get on Fox News or NewsMax or OAN or any of the other places Mike Lee's voters get their news and actually say something about this"
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Wishcasting, ain't gonna happen. Fox News already saw what happens to their viewership when it no longer whole-heartedly supported the Amber Australopithecus and fired the cheerleader-in-chief Tucker Carlson.
Fox has at least partially capitulated to the demands of the MAGAverse knuckle draggers, and NewsMax nor OAN left the fold in the first place. Reality has no place on these, or any other hard right media sources, if they look to their bottom lines. The rubes must be appeased.
As an aside: I find it extremely scary that 14% of Americans over 18, in total, get their news from Tik Tok: the 18-29 demographic comes in at 32% and the 30-49 is at 15%. (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/15/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-seen-on-most-other-social-media-sites/)
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Chris Christie somehow got on all those outlets and said his piece. On every one he got something like acceptance of what he was saying from the hosts. It can be done if there's a will to do it.
And I think it's important to do it. I mean, it's like an antibiotic to this misinformation disease.
Right now, the infection just runs rampant because there's nothing fighting it.
Unfortunately, Gov Christie is an exception, as are the occasional Dems (other than RFK, Jr who is a DINO) who get invited on to face off against the talking heads. I believe that Christie would not have been invited to appear if he wasn't a primary candidate for the New GOP nomination for POTUS.
I agree that it is important for pols who disagree with the direction of the Repub party to get on-air time, but without an invite they won't appear on any of the prime time opinion/editorialist shows (these are not news shows by any stretch of the imagination) -- and these invites are rare. Most often it appears that these invites are for the purpose of denigrating the guest for the entertainment of the audience.
As I said, these media sources are pandering to the MAGAverse. A loss in viewership not only detrimentally affects the rates charged for advertising, it also leads to lower carriage fees; both anathemas to their profitability.
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