re: #47 Fozzie Bear

A lot of people (wrongly) think that the direction Fox went in was and is market-driven. It’s not. It’s because of Murdoch’s political views, and that of Ailes. Its profitability is in part because of the collusion of the GOP, who find those viewpoints ever-so-useful, no matter that they’re total shit and complete lies, and the anti-intellectual, anti-science streak that was already present in the US.

I think Murdoch is almost beyond caring at this point. His grand plans have fallen apart. He’s driven the GOP into the wilderness of insanity, rather than ensuring a permanent GOP majority. They’ve had to resort to increasingly desperate tactics that will, eventually, bit them in the ass— the race-baiting, the gaybashing.

I’m not sure how hard Murdoch is even going to fight. He may go down swinging, but simply shuttering News of the World was a bizarre decision that got him nothing, in the end.