Fox News Plans a Streaming Service for Superfans

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Thanks to a relentless news cycle — and a dedicated fan in the Oval Office — Fox News has defied the downward trends in the television business, notching its highest-rated year in 2017 even as audiences dwindled for many networks.

But the mass migration of viewers away from traditional cable and satellite packages is accelerating. And now Fox News is plotting a leap into the uncertain digital future that rivals like CNN have so far put off.

On Tuesday, Fox News is set to announce Fox Nation, a stand-alone subscription service available without a cable package. The streaming service, expected to start by the end of the year, would focus primarily on right-leaning commentary, with original shows and cameos by popular personalities like Sean Hannity.

It would not overlap with Fox News’s 24-hour cable broadcast — not even reruns — because of the channel’s contractual agreements with cable operators. Instead, the network is planning to develop hours of new daily programming with a mostly fresh slate of anchors and commentators.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/media/fox-news-streaming.html

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People are moving on from cable news to get away from that kind of shit. Not just Fox News, but the trash media for the other side too (MSNBC, CNN, etc). I don't think this will catch on as well as they think it will..

And anyway, sites like InfoWars and Breitbart are already basically digital Fox News.....

I miss when newspapers were the reigning news source, honestly. Sure, they had their bias too, but journalism meant something different in those days. There were so many more independent journalists who only sought the truth. And often risked their life pursuing it. I'm reminded of the journalist Nellie Bly, who checked herself into a mental asylum (back when they were really bad) to report the conditions to the public. That's a damn journalist. Cable news and online clickbait sites (InfoWars, Salon, Brietbart, Mother Jones, Raw Story, etc.) only care about hits. The truth isn't as popular, so they don't bother with it.

To this day, newspapers are how I tend to get my news. It works as long as you look at a wide variety of papers with different leans on an issue so you can see all sides and form your own opinion. Their recent digitization is convenient, you have to know the difference between a fake and true one though. There are alot of websites with newspaper-y names that are no better than clickbait sites.
 
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