Newsmax TV is to Fox what Fox was to CNN
This image released by Newsmax shows Greg Kelly, a former personality at Fox’s New York affiliate who is Newsmax’s most polished broadcaster. (Newsmax via AP) more >
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 21, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Back in the day, back in the 1996 day, when Republican Roger Ailes joined up with Republican Rupert Murdoch to start the Fox News Channel as a conservative alternative to the liberal news networks, CNN mocked the competition as, well, hardly competition.
It’s a bit how Fox, in turn, treated Newsmax TV. And now, the chickens are coming home to roost.
“Fox News staffers thought Newsmax was a joke,” blared one CNN headline, from commentator Brian Stelter. “But they’re not laughing anymore.”
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“I thought it was a great speech,” said Fox‘s Chris Wallace, on the newly anointed Joe Biden’s inaugural address. “I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard.”
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It’s a tough thing to remain humble in the face of great success — to remember one’s roots, to remember the reasons for the success in the first place. Ted Turner — Ted Turner of CNN who once accused Fox of being a propaganda arm of the George W. Bush administration — learned the hard way the folly of deriding competition.
If history repeats — and it very often does — Fox may be forced to eat from the same humble pie.
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