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lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts) Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:10 PM Oct 2019

WAPO OP ED: Why Trump is flirting with abandoning Fox News for One America

The newer network is using Fox’s own tactics to challenge the cable titan.

By Nicole Hemmer Oct. 11, 2019 at 2:52 p.m. EDT

Nicole Hemmer is an an associate research scholar at Columbia University and author of "Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics." She is a co-founder of The Post's daily historical analysis section, Made by History.

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But recently, Trump has been pairing his criticisms of Fox with threats. “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet,” he tweeted in August. “Fox isn’t working for us anymore!” On Thursday, he followed up his anti-Fox News tweets with one in favor of a competitor : “Thank you to @OANN One America News for your fair coverage and brilliant reporting. It is appreciated by many people trying so hard to find a new, consistent and powerful VOICE!”

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More than any other in Fox News’s history, this is a threat with teeth. Somehow even more pro-Trump and less journalistic than Fox, OANN, or One America News Network, is on the way to becoming Trump’s favorite network — and as a result, one of Fox News’s biggest challengers. And it’s doing so by taking a page right out of Fox’s playbook.

Now OANN is hoping it can make Trump its own powerful ally, as Giuliani was for Fox years ago — and make Fox the adversary that CNN was for Murdoch.

Though Fox News transformed to become more Trump-friendly after the election, OANN outmaneuvered it: From the day Trump launched his campaign, the network has been aggressively pro-Trump, and Trump has rewarded it in kind, tweeting about it 34 times in the past four years — far less than he has about Fox, but quite a lot for a relatively unknown cable outlet. By 2019, his support had become so apparent that mainstream news outlets began referring to OANN as “Trump’s new favorite network.”

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WAPO OP ED: Why Trump is flirting with abandoning Fox News for One America (Original Post) lindysalsagal Oct 2019 OP

So What or who is this one america? I never heard of them. napi21 Oct 2019 #1

Cable. Creepy. Stepford TV: No soul, lots of shoe polish and gloss to appear legit lindysalsagal Oct 2019 #3

Is it on most Cable networks? I have the top pkg. from Charter/Spectrum Cable, napi21 Oct 2019 #5

suffice it to say Skittles Oct 2019 #6

one fuhrer, one reich, one america nt msongs Oct 2019 #2

Is it on a lot of cable and satellite carriers? I surely hope not. hlthe2b Oct 2019 #4

OANN Newest Reality Oct 2019 #7

I'd guess SHITLER wants to turn it into another of his bizness scams. UTUSN Oct 2019 #8

Oh Barf! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #9

Let's see... a week after SG Barr visited with Murdoch. lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #10

One America...loll...which logo would you prefer? Anon-C Oct 2019 #11

FOX can sink him if they want to lame54 Oct 2019 #12

Inconversations I've had with trumpsters onethatcares Oct 2019 #13

Trump's New Favorite Channel Employs Kremlin-Paid Journalist EleanorR Oct 2019 #14

Probably just a minor procedure misunderstanding DFW Oct 2019 #15

napi21

(45,806 posts)

1. So What or who is this one america? I never heard of them.

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:14 PM

Oct 2019

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)

3. Cable. Creepy. Stepford TV: No soul, lots of shoe polish and gloss to appear legit

Reply to napi21 (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:22 PM

Oct 2019

In the first few minutes of watching, you can feel your brain turn over and crawl out your ear.

napi21

(45,806 posts)

5. Is it on most Cable networks? I have the top pkg. from Charter/Spectrum Cable,

Reply to lindysalsagal (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:29 PM

Oct 2019

and I don't remember seeing anything called one America? Is that what that what they broadcast as?

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

6. suffice it to say

Reply to napi21 (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:31 PM

Oct 2019

they make Faux News actually look fair and balanced

msongs

(67,413 posts)

2. one fuhrer, one reich, one america nt

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:22 PM

Oct 2019

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)

4. Is it on a lot of cable and satellite carriers? I surely hope not.

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:26 PM

Oct 2019

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)

7. OANN

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:32 PM

Oct 2019

One America News Network (OANN), also referred to as One America News (OAN), is an American right-wing[1][2] pay television news channel launched on July 4, 2013, owned by Herring Networks, Inc. The network is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates a news bureau in Washington, D.C.[3] and New York City.

Originally launched with the intention of targeting a conservative and center-right audience,[4][5] OAN states a goal of delivering credible national and international news coverage throughout the day while its prime time political talk shows illustrate a conservative perspective.[6][7][8] The channel is pro-Trump.[6][9] Both Vanity Fair and The Independent in London have said that the channel promotes falsehoods and conspiracy theories.[7][10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News_Network

UTUSN

(70,708 posts)

8. I'd guess SHITLER wants to turn it into another of his bizness scams.

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:38 PM

Oct 2019

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)

9. Oh Barf!

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:41 PM

Oct 2019

This guy needs to go to the GreyBar Hotel, with NO TV OR INTERNET!

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

10. Let's see... a week after SG Barr visited with Murdoch.

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:43 PM

Oct 2019

Shep Smith is shown the door unceremoniously...

cowinky-dink... I don't think so... Trump will stay Faux.

Anon-C

(3,430 posts)

11. One America...loll...which logo would you prefer?

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:44 PM

Oct 2019

...or the old school version?

/revision/latest/scale-

lame54

(35,293 posts)

12. FOX can sink him if they want to

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 01:51 AM

Oct 2019

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)

13. Inconversations I've had with trumpsters

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:17 AM

Oct 2019

they don't care about content, they care about the bobble headed, bimbo blondes with large kidneys that read the content.

How many of those clowns are going to pay for listening to the con tell them he won the election in 2016?

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)

14. Trump's New Favorite Channel Employs Kremlin-Paid Journalist

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:10 AM

Oct 2019

Kristian Brunovich Rouz, originally from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been living in San Diego, where OAN is based, since August 2017, reporting on U.S. politics for the 24-hour news channel. For all of that time, he’s been simultaneously writing for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned news wire that played a role in Russia’s 2016 election-interference operation, according to an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community.

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Kremlin propaganda sometimes sneaks into Rouz’s segments on unrelated matters, dropped in as offhand background information. A segment on the Syrian rescue workers known as the White Helmets references “allegations of the White Helmets’ involvement in military activities, executions, and numerous war atrocities,” but doesn’t disclose that those “allegations” were hoaxes that originated with Vladimir Putin and his proxies.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-trumps-new-favorite-channel-employs-kremlin-paid-journalist

DFW

(54,405 posts)

15. Probably just a minor procedure misunderstanding

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:31 AM

Oct 2019

Fox Noise thinks it is there to tell Trump what to do.

Trump thinks Fox is there to praise whatever he does and says, even if Fox DIDN'T tell him to.

I'm sure they'll get it straightened out before long.

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