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wadio

Does anyone know how this subscription service is doing? I have yet to see promos for anything that remotely interests me.

I've pretty much switched my viewing from Fox News Channel to Newsmax but I still tune in Tucker Carlson because I think he's a good journalist and he finds stories that aren't necessarily the stories du jour.

But tonight I tuned in Carlson only to catch the beginning of a one hour infomercial for a series he's doing on Fox Nation. Enough!

If Fox Nation is their future, Fox should shut down Fox News Channel and get on with it. Otherwise let FNC be FNC and stop bleeding audience to Newsmax and OAN.
 
wadio said:
tonight I tuned in Carlson only to catch the beginning of a one hour infomercial for a series he's doing on Fox Nation. Enough!

If Fox Nation is their future, Fox should shut down Fox News Channel and get on with it.
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It seems that's what's happening on a few networks right now. They (NBC/Peacock, Discovery, Fox, etc.) air commercials showing programming their audience may be interested in (vs. the stuff available on their standard networks and stations), then they break it to you that if you want to see the content they've just shown you, you need to buy the premium/ subscription service.
 
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wadio said:
I've pretty much switched my viewing from Fox News Channel to Newsmax but I still tune in Tucker Carlson because I think he's a good journalist and he finds stories that aren't necessarily the stories du jour.
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In my journalism classes... in three countries in fact... taught me that a journalist does not insert opinion or commentary in their reporting.

Tucker Carlson may be a very popular commentator, but he is certainly not a practicing journalist.
 
Maybe "opinion journalist" would be an appropriate term. Carlson appears to do his own unique research, something that many straight "journalists" don't seem to do anymore. In fact pure journalists are hard to find these days.
 
wadio said:
Maybe "opinion journalist" would be an appropriate term. Carlson appears to do his own unique research, something that many straight "journalists" don't seem to do anymore. In fact pure journalists are hard to find these days.
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Huh? Any on-site reporter is a journalist. They are on location reporting what they see. That is one of the basic tenants of journalism. So there are lots of journalists out there. As long as they report what they see and don't infuse their personal view in their reporting, they're journalists. I'm not sure what you would call a "pure journalist," but I find a lot of independent journalists out there who don't take a regular paycheck and just cover stories as they happen.

To your other point, Fox News is offering a subscription product in addition to Fox News Channel. They won't be shutting down FNC. But the Fox Nation product isn't bound by the rules of traditional cable TV with regards to ratings and advertising. So they can dig deeper into stories than they might be able to on FNC.
 
wadio said:
Maybe "opinion journalist" would be an appropriate term. Carlson appears to do his own unique research, something that many straight "journalists" don't seem to do anymore. In fact pure journalists are hard to find these days.
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Many commentators began as journalists, but once they inject opinion into a piece, they are not performing as journalists.

 
Fox Nation only exists as a money grab for Murdock. Push programming exclusively to a paid streamer and hope people buy it.
 
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