I don't like it, but it's happening right now anyway.

America has always been money minded, for a short term to use, but modern technology has allowed companies to target markets, which are made up of people, to fraknly a sickening degree.

Modern news is nothing more than another consumer product, to be packaged and branded and sold to consumers like any other retial product. Fox News targets a specific consumer market, one that arguably was being ignored for a long time. But one of the reasons it was being ignored was becasue the market was dominated by pretty much monopolies for so long and they all went after the same piece of the pie, which was all of it.

All Fox did was realize that there was money to be made in smaller pieces of the pie, as long as you owned that entire piece by yourself. This is why there is no other news organization like Fox on any national scale, the slice of the pie is too small to support more big players. Meanwhile the larger general market still supports three major broadcast companies as well as as a cable news channel, because it's a much bigger market.

I look at Fox in as positive way as possible, in the fact that they exist in a vacuum. They have no competition, and that in itself is a good thing.

I don't know why people watch cable news anyway, there isn't enough news to fill 24 hours a day, opinion is going to fill the gaps. Murdoch operates all his European media the same way he does Fox News, it's all opinion news, all he did was replant the same shit from there to here. If there had been money to be made in a liberal opinion news source Murdoch would have started one, but the market was already saturated.

But Murdoch has proven the business model is viable and profitable, as long as you can own your market anyway. Eventually, and soon enough, all news media will go this way. They'll have to, as the populace further Balkanizes along political lines.

The Glenn Beckization of the news is NOT something that I want to hear about this morning.

tHEN SEPARATE YOURSELF FROME COMMENTARY AN JUST LISTEN TO FOX BEFORE 5 PM.

Fox News starts its day by having three of the dumbest mouthbreathers on the planet sit in front of the camera and wax contarded about anything Obama related. It's like some wingnut freak show to get the natives up and going in the morning.

Fox's morning, noon, and afternoon slots are dominated by wingers who push the GOP's agenda as far as it can take it. It's like the mouthpiece of the Republican party, and you know it.

And after Shep Smith, it's all down the rabbit hole of conservative wankery with Fox "News".

Before 5, FOX does "real" news, where they quote Beck and Hannity and call it headlines. They intersperse "news" with long format ads for the evening ranters and previews of Beck and Hannity's "outrage du jour". There is no there there.

Every Republican I know turns on FoxNews the minute they get up in the morning, and leave it on until they go to bed. There is no moment in the day when FoxNews is not playing to their conscious and subconscious mind.

And it shows in every Republican I know, without exception.