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Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say
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Hard to argue that at this point.
He looks like an asshole almost every day, can't even get bills past his own House, gets put in check by other institutions on a seemingly daily basis, and it will only get worse as its clear he has no political capital.
May end up being the best thing to happen to the Democratic party, if they can get their shit together.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
With his homeboy already in office there's not really much more for him to be evangelizing.
bobbychalkers
Member
Tumbling down tumbling down tumbling doooown~
Can't you see it? Trump is fooling you, it's actually 9th dimensional chess! He'll probably bring them to the white house/start a Trump network with them.
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
Right, I'm hesitant to be too celebratory about this. Fox news is successful because it tells conservatives what they want to hear. It's not responsible for making them conservative in the first place.
The fun theory is that the Murdochs are woke to the risk to their bid for Sky in the UK and would like fewer headaches so their efforts to acquire it succeed. If Hannity wishes to be one less headache, I'm fine with that too to be honest. Take what you can get, right?
it's still cable news, they're all shit
polyh3dron
Banned
Trump's candidacy, led to Megyn Kelly asserting herself re: sexual harassment, led to Ailes and O'Reilly getting the boot, also led to the guy getting the boot that made Hannity want to leave, supposedly.
Yeah, the morning show is where Trump sees what his opinion should be. Fingers crossed that a wrench gets thrown into that fuckshit of a machine, too.
Oh well, at least we have some early morning "people were so unfair to Sean" tweets to look forward to.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
Seriously. Breitbart wouldn't even be profitable if not for the Mercer family subsidizing it. They don't have 50 million lying around to pay for these guys.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Reasonable theory.
It was apparently a house of cards, held together by nothing to fall apart that easily.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
It's Ailes being forced out. He was holding the channel together. He was committed to shielding his employees from repercussions from sexual harassment, in no small part because he was so guilty of it. He was committed to keeping fox news a toxic boys club. Once he was gone and the place was put under new leadership it all came crashing down.
I think Gretchen Carlson deserves more credit than Megan Kelly. She was the first person to come out agsinst Ailes and really got the ball rolling. That was way before Kelly left and came out with her own allegations.
He'd keep doing his radio program which has nearly 13 million listeners per week and move into the internet spectrum, so his voice and weight would still be heard loudly. Different situation than Bill O'Riley.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
No one on the internet wants to hear Sean Hannity. There is no viable platform for him to make the kind of money he used to on Fox.
Glenn Beck's failure with the Blaze is proof enough of that.
Unless Sean can get his own personal billionaire to bankroll his show for the purpose of messaging like with Breitbart he'll probably stick with radio. But that has also been dying with advertisers fleeing.
Fast Forward
Member
Does not matter. Even if Fox moves away from being a far right propaganda outfit, another Network or Outlet would pop up in its place. I mean, the problem is not just Fox. There's a reason it exists. There's a market for it. Let's face it. A lot of people out there crave the kind of "alternative facts" Fox gives them.
Another outlet can't just "pop up" and get Fox News' audience, that's not how it works.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
By insiders you mean anybody that has read his twitter timeline in the past few days, right?
Widdle Puppy
Banned
Hannity is the absolute worst.
Please don't play the "they're all the same" game with news. They're not. It's not even close.
Fast Forward
Member
It was gonna happen, either way. Even if Hillary, or hell, Bernie won. You can only cover up these kind of scandals for so long before it comes out. Bill Cosby scandals, for example.
Inspires hope as the scattered sources of hate are not in nearly as many homes as Fox, and makes it more difficult to keep a common consensus on far right rhetoric, ontop of (hopefully) Fox watering down some of that stuff that will likely come from Breibart etc, should be the type of disruption to slow down the rising popularity of alt fact crowd .
Fast Forward
Member
Not saying it would happen literally over night. Of course not. But for all the finger pointing at Fox, which is rightfully deserved, there's a reason they exist. FTM, there's a reason right wing talk radio exists. It is because their viewers want/crave this kind of content.
It certainly has been a litmus test for moderate Republicans, ones that deign to still carry a shred of dignity, rationality, and humility to really consider the depths of depravity needed for their team to gain full power and the hurdles they face within(not even against dems!) to actually achieve anything responsible and ethical.
If any such individuals actually exist.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Not that hard, actually. There's a lot of people who like what he's done so far. What looks like an asshole to you looks like a scrappy fighter to others. Don't mistake "failure" for "stuff he did that I don't like", because his supporters aren't looking at it through the same lens you are.
Pyroclastic
Banned
there's definitely gonna be a breitbart esque channel that'll come out of this, too many dominoes falling. will almost make fox seem like its slogan.
It's not that easy but its also not impossibly hard. The Audience are drones waiting for their next software update. Megyn Kelly refused to kiss the ring and suddenly she was an evil leftist out to destroy fox news etc.
Hannity has already been reaching out to his audience about the "demise" of Fox and how its turning liberal. The Drones will line up and wait for their next update from their overseers. The Biggest obstacle to a foxnews replacement is the fact the world has changed and advertisers will not just line up
I mean, beyond Gorsuch he hasn't done anything of import. At some point, when people realize that their lives haven't changed in any appreciable way, he'll sink even farther.
That any sense of decency seems to still exist is not because it is actually there in the moderate Republicans, but that there is enough power in the hands of the people to take away their jobs next year. Thanks Christ.
Edit: As to a Fox replacement, where is the money to support that? Where else can a single outlet exist that will be the one stop shop for continually supported ignorance? Nowhere else can pay as well as network tv (well, nowhere else beholden to subscribers or advertisers, at least). Individually these people will have their own ventures between radio and books and maybe some low-rent web streaming thing, but none of that will singularly impact the population, especially the median-aged 70 American population, as television.
Imperfected
Member
What can they do, really? The strawman they had made of Obama was the only thing remotely keeping them in work for the past six years.
What? There is always room for racists to make money off the internet. He has one of the most popular radio shows currently. He still has a audience.
Heh. Maybe Trump will fund it. "State" TV funded via tax payer dollars filtered through trips to maralogo.