The Real O'Reilly Factor

[Geee]

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According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Draggingtree]

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According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Valin]

:

According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Geee]

:

According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Draggingtree]

:

According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Geee]

:

According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Valin]

:

According to Michael Wolff at the The Hollywood Reporter, the tension leading up to O'Reilly's ouster revealed a divide among the owners and operators at Fox, the Murdoch family.

 

This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. For 86-year-old Rupert, Fox News is a key part of his legacy, as well as the family company's health: the most profitable news outlet ever ($1.5 billion in profits this year) and among the most influential. For James, 44, and Lachlan, 45, the hope is to reshape this legacy, to move Fox away from what they see as its retro, Trump-style views toward, well, something nicer (and to do this profitably, they hope, somehow).

The way I hear it, the young Murdochs don't like getting razzed for the O'Reilly-Of-It-All when they go to fancy cocktail parties in New York, London and L.A. They want to be part of the cool crowd and you can't do that with the smell of conservative cordite on you. They care less about profits than about making Fox presentable to the liberal set.

 

So only Papa Rupert is keeping Fox News alive as a conservative outlet. And — this may come as a surprise to pops — nobody lives forever. This means that the one and only conservative voice on television — to be clearer, the one and only news source that is not an absolute cesspit of leftist lies — may be about to vanish, one unpresentable loud-mouth at a time.

 

If so, it will reveal once again the short-sighted philistinism of the conservative movement, a movement that can't be bothered to engage in culture creation, that is too busy screaming about the latest faux crisis to take the long view that might ultimately save the nation we love.

 

How is it possible that an enterprise as successful as Fox News has spurred no imitators? How is it no billionaires have been inspired to build a Fox for millennials or for comedy or for drama? If I'm right, and the end of The O'Reilly Factor presages the end of Fox as we know it, conservatives are soon going to find themselves facing elections with no cultural voice at all.

[Valin]