FOX NEWS IS OFFICIALLY DONE WITH “FAIR AND BALANCED”

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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/fox-news-fair-balanced-slogan

 

Without Roger Ailes at the helm, Fox News seems to be suffering a prolonged identity crisis. Prime-time star Bill O’Reilly was fired in April; up-and-comer Megyn Kelly departed for greener pastures at NBC; and executive leadership has undergone a rapid succession of changes as the network’s old guard, represented by Rupert Murdoch, clashes with a younger, reformist generation led by Murdoch’s sons, James and Lachlan. Changes that began with Ailes’s ouster amid a sweeping sexual-harassment scandal seem to have accelerated after his death, which crystallized a prolonged period of soul-searching. (The Murdochs have disputed this characterization.) A fundamental transformation is necessary, a former Fox executive recently told my colleague Sarah Ellison: “There has to be a course correction or they will lose that very successful business.” (Ailes denied all the allegations against him.)

 

One part of that transformation, evidently, is changing Fox News’s mantra. New York’s Gabriel Sherman reported Wednesday that Fox News is dropping the marketing slogan “Fair & Balanced,” the much-ridiculed, mostly aspirational tagline for a network whose morning and prime-time lineups are markedly conservative. Fox News has also used “We Report, You Decide” and “The Most Powerful Name in News” in recent years. But while Ailes oversaw the news division, “Fair & Balanced” represented the kind of right-leaning coverage the network specialized in—allowing conservative voices to thrive alongside liberal foils who mostly served as punching bags.

 

According to Sherman, Fox News co-president Jack Abernethy made the decision last August, following Ailes’s resignation, to drop the phrase, because it had been “mocked” and was considered “too closely associated with Roger.” A Fox News spokesperson confirmed that the network hadn’t used the slogan in marketing or on-air promotions since August but said “the shift has nothing to do with programming or editorial decisions.”

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LOL

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Ted Nugent on Fox now asking for civility. LOL.

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Very foxy

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2 hours ago, ccneat said:

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/fox-news-fair-balanced-slogan

 

Without Roger Ailes at the helm, Fox News seems to be suffering a prolonged identity crisis. Prime-time star Bill O’Reilly was fired in April; up-and-comer Megyn Kelly departed for greener pastures at NBC; and executive leadership has undergone a rapid succession of changes as the network’s old guard, represented by Rupert Murdoch, clashes with a younger, reformist generation led by Murdoch’s sons, James and Lachlan. Changes that began with Ailes’s ouster amid a sweeping sexual-harassment scandal seem to have accelerated after his death, which crystallized a prolonged period of soul-searching. (The Murdochs have disputed this characterization.) A fundamental transformation is necessary, a former Fox executive recently told my colleague Sarah Ellison: “There has to be a course correction or they will lose that very successful business.” (Ailes denied all the allegations against him.)

 

One part of that transformation, evidently, is changing Fox News’s mantra. New York’s Gabriel Sherman reported Wednesday that Fox News is dropping the marketing slogan “Fair & Balanced,” the much-ridiculed, mostly aspirational tagline for a network whose morning and prime-time lineups are markedly conservative. Fox News has also used “We Report, You Decide” and “The Most Powerful Name in News” in recent years. But while Ailes oversaw the news division, “Fair & Balanced” represented the kind of right-leaning coverage the network specialized in—allowing conservative voices to thrive alongside liberal foils who mostly served as punching bags.

 

According to Sherman, Fox News co-president Jack Abernethy made the decision last August, following Ailes’s resignation, to drop the phrase, because it had been “mocked” and was considered “too closely associated with Roger.” A Fox News spokesperson confirmed that the network hadn’t used the slogan in marketing or on-air promotions since August but said “the shift has nothing to do with programming or editorial decisions.”

Donald Trump as president, has been an absolute disaster for fox news. 

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Just now, Póg mo said:

Donald Trump as president, has been an absolute disaster for fox news. 

Been a disaster for the whole country. Approval rating in the toilet, only kept partially respectful by his minions. Embracing dictators and pushing away democratically elected world leaders. No legislation passed through Congress just executive orders. Now under criminal investigation.