01-09-2021, 02:27 PM
What would most surely take FoX News or OANN off the cable system is economic failure. Loss of advertising revenue would probably compel FoX News (which has plenty of physical assets) to sell out to someone who might be tempted to buy in. CBS, anyone? I can imagine how CBS would make FoX News fit the corporate culture and tradition. The incendiary rhetoric comes to an end, and CBS starts doing more in-depth reporting.
OANN seems to operate on a shoestring, and I can imagine it folding if it loses its revenue.
OANN seems to operate on a shoestring, and I can imagine it folding if it loses its revenue.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.