Bannon plots Fox competitor, global expansion
Source: Axios
Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he moves into "Bannon the Barbarian" mode, Steve Bannon is thinking bigger than Breitbart.
Axios' Jonathan Swan hears Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he's going to start a network.
Bannon's friends are speculating about whether it will be a standalone TV network, or online streaming only.
Before his death in May, Roger Ailes had sent word to Bannon that he wanted to start a channel together. Bannon loved the idea: He believes Fox is heading in a squishy, globalist direction as the Murdoch sons assume more power.
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Read more: https://www.axios.com/what-is-steve-bannon-doing-now-breitbart-network-2474727174.html
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)paleotn
(17,989 posts)It may not work again. Certainly not to the level Faux News has achieved. I mean, you can only do so much with Nazi News.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)More bad ideas brought to us by Sir Ronald
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)It never applied to cable and the courts would stikecit down if we tried to force cable to abide by it.
Have a nice evening
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Expect a lot of harmony between these two, especially as Putin;s grand design is to play Americans against the Chinese.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)has to be free TV propaganda, use the free social medias- most deplo(R)able chumps aren't very wealthy.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)A channel like that wouldn't have enough sponsors producing enough ad revenue to survive for long.
Once the Mercers stopped subsidizing it would cease to exist,
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)Bannon's original business plan was to lose the election and claim it was stolen, and build a huge following of anti-Democrats who you could sell any old shit to - because the viewership is larger when you're in opposition. Just ask Glenn Beck. Then they went and won. But now, he gets to pretend he's an "opposition" anyway, because there really does seem to be a large, gullible far right demographic in the USA, for whom Fox is too "globalist" (what did you expect? It's owned by an immigrant who only took US citizenship so that he could own his own TV channel).
PSPS
(13,616 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Another Trump legacy.
potone
(1,701 posts)From what I have read, Breitbart has lost a lot of advertisers since Charlottesburg. There are only so many people who want to hear this hate-filled rhetoric.
JHB
(37,162 posts)...""Bannonble the Cannibal". Cannibalize FOX's audience, plus the Sprinkletroopers of the online alt-right.
Fava beans and chianti, anyone? Just stick with the vegetarian menu, to be safe.