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highplainsdem

(49,041 posts)
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 11:37 AM Aug 2017

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

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paleotn

(17,989 posts)
2. That trick worked once...
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 11:59 AM
Aug 2017

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.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
11. That only applies to limited public airwaves
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 06:19 PM
Aug 2017

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)
4. Great, it is Russia Today 2.0
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 12:36 PM
Aug 2017

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)
5. the radical republican TV can hire the sexual preditors Republican fox TV had to cast away.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:32 PM
Aug 2017

has to be free TV propaganda, use the free social medias- most deplo(R)able chumps aren't very wealthy.

Ligyron

(7,639 posts)
6. Bannon is delusional.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:38 PM
Aug 2017

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)
7. The resurrection of the "Trump TV" idea, but without the figurehead puppet
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:46 PM
Aug 2017

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).

potone

(1,701 posts)
10. I don't think this will fly.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 05:55 PM
Aug 2017

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)
12. Not so much "Bannon the Barbarian" as...
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 06:48 PM
Aug 2017

...""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.

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