This was published before last night’s debate. It’s a given that Roger Ailes can’t live forever (neither can Murdoch, but on the other hand, his mom lived to 103, and Rupe’s feeling frisky enough to announce he’s getting married again). Gabriel Sherman, dedicated Rupert-nologist, at NYMag:
…According to four high-placed Fox sources, Murdoch is upping his presence at Fox while Ailes has become less visible to anchors and producers, signaling a shift that marks a new chapter in the network’s history. The most visible change is that since June Murdoch has been attending Ailes’s daily executive meeting held on the second floor of Fox headquarters. The secretive afternoon gathering in Ailes’s conference room is attended by about a half-dozen of the network’s most senior lieutenants. It’s where some of the most sensitive decisions about running the channel are discussed.
Murdoch has so far been a quiet observer, but his presence at the table is striking to Fox executives. Some interpret it as a sign that the 84-year-old, newly engaged Australian mogul is preparing for a future when the 75-year-old Ailes is no longer in the picture. It’s one of the most significant decisions Wall Street will be watching: Fox is valued at north of $15 billion and generates as much as 30 percent of Murdoch’s profits. “He wants a smooth handover,” one executive told me. Right now the two leading internal candidates are Michael Clemente, who’s in charge of news, and Bill Shine, who oversees Fox Business. The rivalry between the two, as I’ve reported in the past, is fierce to the point that the two rarely speak. On Thursday night, Shine will have a chance to showcase his producing skills when Fox Business hosts the GOP debate in South Carolina…
Meanwhile, Fox hosts and producers tell me Ailes has been a somewhat diminished force at the network. In 2014, he took an extended leave of absence after a health scare. He still has trouble walking and rarely ventures out of his executive suite. A friend who ran into Ailes in Palm Beach over the holidays remarked that he was using a walker. “He seems detached and removed,” one Fox personality tells me. “He’s not around as much,” says another friend of Ailes. “He doesn’t have as many meetings with talent.”
What this means politically is that during this year’s fractious Republican primary, Fox isn’t functioning like the disciplined campaign it’s historically been. “There’s no directive on anything,” one anchor told me. “There used to be directives on everything, and now there’s not, which is kind of nice.” By far, the clearest sign of this leadership vacuum is the network’s erratic handling of Trump in the wake of his feud with Megyn Kelly. “There is no Trump strategy,” the source explained…
Several other prominent conservatives I’ve spoken with grumble that Murdoch is pushing Fox to be openly hostile to Trump and Ted Cruz at the same time the channel boosts Establishment candidates, most prominently Marco Rubio. “I’ve joked to people that they’ll be doing a segment about kumquats in China and somehow they’ll mention Rubio,” one Cruz ally told me. Another conservative activist pointed out that Fox gave Rubio the first interview opportunity following Obama’s Oval Office address on ISIS last month. Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, it should also be noted, has been one of the most aggressive Trump and Cruz critics…
Pretty clearly, Trump and Cruz got all the “earned” (free) media last night; those few commentors who noticed Rubio’s presence weren’t impressed by his performance. So, did Fox Business “fail” at dinging Il Douche and the #Failgunner? Or can it be argued that last night’s Battle of the Titanic Egos makes both Donald & Ted look even more unappealing to the low-info primary voter?
Fortune got Murdoch to deny that Ailes was “taking a backseat,” for what that’s worth. But here’s the latest three entries on Rupert’s twitter feed (which he is said to compose & post):
GOP debate. All candidates do well, Rubio and Trump most effective. Cruz brilliant debater, but what else? Like ability still important!
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 15, 2016
24 hours and many influential Republicans see Trump inevitable and get ready to switch. United by horror of Hillary whose campaign staggers
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 16, 2016
Cruz bets uniting white conservatives/evangelicals enough, Meanwhile Trump appealing across party lines. Surely the winning strategy.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 16, 2016
If nothing else, I think we can safely add Murdoch to the list of those who don’t like Ted Cruz.
Ramalama
Like, ability still important!
Also Jerry Hall (Mick Jagger’s ex) is planning to wed Murdoch.
Ruckus
It might be easier to list the 15 people who like cruz, none of whom have met him otherwise they wouldn’t remain on the list. Those that support him don’t necessarily like him it’s just that they have a greater dislike of the other candidates. Of course there is no accounting for taste is there.
amk
Like ability?
Is that a new code word? Or rupie just sucks at English?
Steeplejack
@amk:
Fumble-fingering. He needs to get one of those geezer cell phones with the super big buttons.
mclaren
And now, a reminder of the kind of people who govern America:
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” — President George W. Bush, August 5th, 2004
“Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” –Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, March 24th, 1989, National Press Club speech
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking about President Obama’s healthcare law, March 9th, 2010
“Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.” — New York City mayor Edward Koch, in an essay published in The New Republic on April 15th, 1985
“Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” — Congresswoman and GOP Presidential nominee Michelle Bachmann, January 26th, 2005
“But obviously we’ve gotta stand with our North Korean allies.” — Sarah Palin
“No ordinary American cares about his constitutional rights.” — Vice President Joe Biden
“I am filled with humidity.” — Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
“I am an optimist because — given half a chance — the Americans have never, ever, ever let their country down. Even when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.” — Vice President Joe Biden
“Spending on the military doesn’t increase the deficit.” — Ronald Reagan
“There’s a lot of uncertainty that’s not clear in my mind.” — Texas
House Speaker Gib Lewis
“This bill, if passed, will derail the ship of state.” — Speaker of
the New York Assembly Stanley Steingut
“What is scattered to the wind here is just a drop in the bucket.” —
member of New York City Council
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” — Dan Quayle
“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.” —
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and
child.” — Dan Quayle
“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” — Ronald Reagan
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being
very wasteful. How true that is.” — Dan Quayle
“Well, I learned a lot….I went down to (Latin America) to find out
from them and (learn) their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all
individual countries” — Ronald Reagan
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president,
and that one word is ‘to be prepared.'” — Dan Quayle
“We must ask the question — `Is our children educated?'” — George W. Bush
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy — but that could change.” — Dan Quayle
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a
literacy test.” — George W. Bush
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in
the future.” — Dan Quayle
“I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters
and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.” — George W.
Bush
“The future will be better tomorrow.” — Dan Quayle
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” — George W. Bush
“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”
— Dan Quayle
“America is the greatest nation in the country.” — Spiro T. Agnew
Mike in NC
@amk: No points deducted by being an illiterate billionaire.
Steeplejack
Somebody sent me this today: “How to tell when your cat is fully charged.” I think it has been around awhile, but I’d never seen it.
benw
Dear Conservatives,
Rupert Murdoch has made billions of dollars and is therefore totally a genius beyond anything Fermi or Maxwell could have achieved. Therefore, please listen to his articulate tweets and do exactly what he says.
With warmest and kindest regards,
Benw
amk
@Steeplejack: Got one for FIL, never heard the end of it from wifey unit. The dood is 75 years, ffs.
redshirt
Killroy was here.
jl
I can see how Rubio can pass for a kumquat.
So, I don’t see why a Fox News story mentioning both is odd.
rikyrah
Here’s a picture of the young girl that saved her classmate’s life, and got a suspension for her kindness.
These muthaphuckas are OUT OF CONTROL with trying to CRIMINALIZE BLACK CHILDREN.
……………………………..
Texas Middle Schooler Who Had Asthma Attack Is Punished for Accepting Classmate’s Inhaler
Indiyah Rush, 12, faces up to 30 days at an alternative school for lending classmate Alexis Kyle—who was given the same punishment—an inhaler after Alexis suffered an asthma attack.
BY: BREANNA EDWARDS
Posted: Jan. 15 2016 1:16 PM
A Texas middle school student who was suffering an asthma attack and accepted an inhaler from a classmate faces one month in an alternative school, Fox 4 News reports.
Alexis Kyle, 13, who used her classmate’s inhaler, is facing the same penalty as Indiyah Rush, 12, who offered Alexis her inhaler Tuesday in gym class at Schrade Middle School in Rowlett after seeing Alexis struggle to breathe.
“I’m getting in trouble, but the thing is, she’s getting in trouble, too. She tried to help me,” Alexis told the news station.
Alexis, for her part, had no idea she was breaking a rule by accepting the inhaler.
Both girls are honor roll students, the news station says. And now they both face 30 days at an alternative school as an automatic punishment for sharing a controlled substance, a category that includes prescription drugs, like an inhaler, until the principal can meet with the girls and their parents. The final punishment could change and be anywhere from zero days to a month.
“The little girl saved her life. And the reason we say that [is] because we have been to situations where she has been to ICU, so we know how bad her asthma is,” Alexis’ stepfather, Michael Green, told Fox 4 News.
Wag
Maybe Rupert meant lick ability. We all know the GOP candidates suck. Maybe they lick as well.
Mike in NC
@mclaren: America was denied the presidency of the genius Dan Quayle (yet another reason to despise Dubya’s shithead dad), and further suffered the defeat of his imbecile son Ben, once a Tea Party congressman from Arizona, wingnut central of the American West.
Steeplejack
@amk:
To be fair, it depends on the 75-year-old. I just got off the phone with my 78-year-old friend in Alaska who is a retired psychologist who paints, studies art and is thinking about getting a MacBook Air to replace her Windows notebook.
But I am also locked in a so far unsuccessful battle to get my 85-year-old mother to get one of those goddamn Life Alert amulets or some such so that when she falls over (which she does occasionally—but then neglects to mention to anyone) she won’t lie on her floor for two days.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he had them pied.”
Ramalama
@rikyrah: WTFWTFWTF. Anyone with asthma knows you do not feck around. I’ve willingly lent my inhaler to weird neckbeard strangers, people with halitosis, because … humanity.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Zero tolerance policies are a solution looking for a problem. It treats the responsible adults – administrators, teachers, coaches, etc – as unable to exercise judgement and do their actual jobs. And it penalizes children for things, as in this case, are overwhelmingly not problematic.
The Lodger
@Wag: That can’t be true. Mean people suck. Nice people lick.
Gian
@amk:
he left out the “you know”
it’s like, you know, ability
EconWatcher
I’ve been confidently predicting for six months that Trump cannot, will not, never could be their nominee. But I was dead wrong. He’s going to win the nomination. That tweet from Murdoch is very telling. If he’s now got Fox News on board, it’s over.
I don’t think we can predict an easy win against him. Look at the polls. Not a slam dunk. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Omnes Omnibus
@The Lodger:
That is not necessarily true.
amk
@Gian: Having read some of his stupid tweets before, I am going with option B.
Gian
@rikyrah:
IIRC a school in Virginia let a kid die rather than use an out of date epi-pen.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201201/allergy-death-school-when-do-morals-override-policy
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Seriously? She should get an award for saving her friend’s life.
MomSense
@Gian:
That doesn’t even make sense. I don’t even know what to say.
rikyrah
Elle, You Just Don’t Understand #BlackGirlMagic
She Matters: It’s not about black women being superhuman; it’s about black women recognizing the humanity in one another that so many others often fail to see.
BY: DEMETRIA LUCAS D’OYLEY
Posted: Jan. 14 2016 10:23 AM
On Wednesday, Elle published an essay by Linda Chavers lamenting the use of the popular phrase “Black Girl Magic.” Chavers’ essay was prompted by Essence magazine’s use of the catchphrase for female black excellence on its February-issue covers.
“There’s something else that rubs me the wrong way about the phrase ‘black girl magic,’” writes Chavers. “The ‘strong, black woman’ archetype, which also includes the mourning black woman who suffers in silence, is the idea that we can survive it all, that we can withstand it. That we are, in fact, superhuman. Black girl magic sounds to me like just another way of saying the same thing, and it is smothering and stunting. It is, above all, constricting rather than freeing.”
Chavers surmises, “Black girl magic suggests we are, again, something other than human.”
Ummmmm.
Now, in fairness, there is no universal definition of “Black Girl Magic.” The phrase cannot be found in Webster’s Dictionary or even the Urban Dictionary. And Chavers is beyond entitled to her opinion.
But black girls and women, the most frequent users of the term, have almost universally agreed on the same meaning. And it’s nothing at all like what Chavers suggests.
Huffington Post editor Julee Wilson deems Black Girl Magic “a term used to illustrate the universal awesomeness of black women. It’s about celebrating anything we deem particularly dope, inspiring or mind-blowing about ourselves.” Image activist and cultural critic Michaela angela Davis, who used the term on a season 3 episode of BET’s Being Mary Jane, defines it, saying, “Black Girl Magic means we are shape-shifters, superheroes, styles-layers, soul scholars, truth seekers, sisters, healers, Holy Rollers, hotties, listeners, lovers, dreamers, divas, daredevils, doers of the damn thing … all at the same damn time.”
Punchy
Cant link, but Goog Ben Golden. Thats the former shitfaced Taco Bell Exec who beat the shit outta his Uber driver in Nov. Annnnnnnnnnddd….Mr. Golden is now suing….yup….the cab driver.
I thought I’d seen it all w/r/t drunk Millenials not taking responsibility, but this is mind-blowing. Also, he’s suing for “illegal video recording” but wants the video declared inadmissable in court. Yes, I dont understand that either.
Anoniminous
@MomSense:
It’s Texas. The stoopid reigns supreme.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Mike in NC: Autocorrect might be the cause if on a smartphone. Plenty of other things on the twit’s list to concern me, but ymmv.
Prescott Cactus
@Ramalama:
FSM bless you !
Do you know the ol’ trick of putting the canister in a glass of water to see how much medicine (and propellent) remains ? Gives you a ballpark idea, which is better than nothing. Sunk is good, floating sideways not so.
http://www.asthma.partners.org/NewFiles/BoFAChapter32.html
Wag
@Omnes Omnibus: I do not think it matters one way or the other to Rupert, so long as he gets to watch.
Omnes Omnibus
@Wag: Oh FFS, now I have no chance of sleeping tonight.
cokane
Murdoch knows how to churn media for ratings very well, but damn he’s ignorant about politics if he thinks Trump’s shtick is effective in the general election.
Wag
@Prescott Cactus:
Yep. Exactly what I tell my patients. And your website has a really nice illustration. Much better than my off the cuff drawing. Thanks for the link!
ThresherK (GPad)
@MomSense: I need an epipen sometimes. (Note to bread companies: Walnuts and pecans are not grain, rather, they are poison. ) My wife is asthmatic. So we are scratching our heads at both stories. There but for the grace of FSM, etc.
mclaren
Support for Bernie Sanders soars among actual voters, if not a among the Democratic elites.
The Democratic Party’s 5 stages of reaction to Bernie Sanders:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Despair
5. “A political revolution is coming.”
Mike J
The Rubio campaign says the senator spent Christmas Eve buying a gun.
Mike J
PurpleGirl
@Punchy: Gee, you know cabs in NYC all have the ability to either video record or take the picture of a customer. It’s important for the driver’s safety. You hail a cab or call for car service and you accept the conditions of that service — like a video or picture being taken.
rikyrah
yeah, he ‘forgot’ to disclose it…AGAIN.
REALLY?
we’re supposed to believe that bullshyt?
……………………
FRIDAY, JAN 15, 2016 07:30 PM CST
Report: Cruz failed to disclose 2nd loan for 2012 Senate run
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Times is reporting that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz failed to disclose a loan from Citibank that was used to help finance his successful 2012 Senate campaign.
The newspaper says the Texas senator sent a letter Thursday to federal election officials acknowledging his failure to report the loan.
Cruz has been under scrutiny since the Times reported Wednesday that he had failed to report a 2012 campaign loan from Goldman Sachs, where his wife, Heidi Cruz, is an employee. The Times reports that the two bank loans combined totaled as much as $1 million.
The candidate dismissed the first Times report during Thursday’s GOP debate, saying he simply “made paperwork errors.”
Prescott Cactus
@Wag:
You are very welcome, but I can’t take credit for the site. My old doc (as wise as you Wag) turned me onto this method, before they had started putting the counter in some models.
Left the frozen tundra for “Arizona, wingnut central of the American West. ” and have been off everything since.
amk
Has RtR (the expanded version) has joined the bj shitlist?
I tried to quote the lil jebbie’s latest fund raising desperation and twice it didn’t stick.
NotMax
@Mike J
Let the A Christmas Story gibes begin.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Let Natalie soothe you.
danielx
Which is not much. Murdoch didn’t get where he is without being a convincing liar at some points of his career; you don’t reach his net worth level without stabbing a few people in the back. On the other hand, it may be a tell. Sort of like when any president announces that he (she?) has complete confidence in one of his minions: when he says it, said underling knows the underlying message really is “clear your desk and update your resume, you’ll be taken care of but you have become a fucking embarrassment”.
True, but it’s not a very exclusive club – any group which both Democrats and Republicans (of any sort) can both belong to lets just about anyone in. Hell, they let me in, how exclusive can it be?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@ThresherK (GPad): Yup. It’s hard to be a Spelling or Grammar Nazi anymore in the age of autocorrect.
Takes a lot of the “fun” out of it, it does.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
danielx
@Omnes Omnibus:
You think that’s a bad image? Type Trump Clinton spanking into Der Google and see what happens. I haven’t done this, mind you, so if you don’t mind being the subject of an experiment we’d be obliged. Skip the details (please!), just give us the condensed version. No emolument will be awarded except for the approval of those present. I’m just testing a theory that yes, there are a lot of conservative sickos out there.
magurakurin
@mclaren: Bernie Sanders isn’t going to win the nomination. I’ve said from the beginning Trump will win, Sanders will lose. I stand by my bets.
Keith G
@rikyrah: If it is any consolation to you, a few years back a 17 year old white male suffered the same consequences for letting his girlfriend borrow his inhaler at a Texas high school.
Gian
@efgoldman:
I get the fear of a lawsuit. However, given that death is a very high probability, with a corresponding worse result than an ineffectual epi pen, I just don’t get not trying it.
She can’t breathe, she’s passed out. it looks like an allergic reaction. don’t use the old epi-pen, we might get sued….
It may just be me, but I’d rather get sued for trying to save a school kid than for watching a kid die.
Thoughtful Today
Gentlemen:
Pesky voters making their own _choices_ might throw a wrench into Establishment Dem’s Coronation of Clinton.
Gian
@MomSense:
If the parents went postal on the school admin, I think a jury would have a very, very hard time convicting
polyorchnid octopunch
@Wag: If you want to find conservative politicians that lick, you need to look to the Great White North.
grandpa john
@Adam L Silverman: and for many it relieves them of having to to the jobs they are paid to do , make judgements and exercise old fash a traitioned “Common sense”., a trait that seems to be sorely missing in today’s pedagogical principles of school managment
polyorchnid octopunch
@Punchy: That’s not a Millennial thing. That’s a frat boy thing.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Oh gawd NO!!! They’d make a musical and there’d be another damn cult.
BillinGlendaleCA
@polyorchnid octopunch: Tend to agree, saw the video of the douchbag on the local news. I’ve been meaning to ask the kid if her sister knows the scumbag, since she used to work at Yum(Taco Bell’s parent).
GregB
I wondered when Roger Ailes’ horribly poor health habits would catch up to him. I need wonder no more.
Steeplejack
Tim Hegarty, “Amsterdam After Dark.”
Mnemosyne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Who lives, who dies, who accuses you of masturbating to Holocaust footage?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Mormons, it’s a long story.
Groucho48
Zero tolerance was supported by both the right and the left. The right because, hey, we like to punish kids, or anybody not like us, actually. The left because we figured it was a way of preventing black kids being punished for the kinds of things white kids weren’t punished for.
Unfortunately, school boards and school administrators are made up of some of the stupidest, most rigid, concrete thinking, territorial folks on the face of the Earth. Perhaps only Home Owner Association officers approach their awfulness.
So, lots of kids suffer. The right uses various cherry picked incidents to attack unions (surprise!). The left wrings its hands a bit. No sign of zero tolerance being done away with any time soon.
Goblue72
@Thoughtful Today: That can’t be true. Everyone knows that Sanders supporters are composed 100% of Brogressives.
Satby
@Steeplejack: are you my brother? You just described my mom.
Chyron HR
@Goblue72:
It’s cute when “Bern”‘s white male 20-something libertarian fanboys whine and squeal whenever someone has the gall to accuse them of being what they literally are.
kindness
Will Murdoch’s preferences for 2016 matter to the base? Yes and no. In order to sweep up the biggest pile the carnival barkers went for the lowest common denominator. And that they got. The ‘Base’ will howl and fling poo because that is their version of chest thumping. They’ll do that to their own because they are that brainless. But after someone is picked they’ll all vote Republican because no matter who Democrats nominate they will be reviled as ‘the most liberal ever’ and ‘socialist money grabbing regulation loving communists’. For the most part. Rinse & repeat.
sparrow
@Chyron HR: I really, really don’t think Bernie supporters tend libertarian. I could be wrong, of course, but those guys (and girls! I’m friends with a few) tend to support purity pony candidates like Gary Johnson. Libertarians, as insufferable as they can be, don’t tend to vote for self-avowed socialists.
I get that you guys feel “icky” about socialism. I guess it’s a holdover from having it be synonymous with a four-letter word for most of your life (Bertrand Russell, the famous mathematician and philosopher, wrote a great book called “The conquest of happiness” in which he describes the importance of rooting out all early prejudices absorbed from authority in ones youth. Recommended.)
Anyway, as the poll that TT referenced shows, Bernie actually picks up more female than male voters in the 18-24 demographic. Anecdotally, about half of my friends that support him are female, and many of them older (30-45). Most are what you’d expect: super liberal types that want a European-style social democracy. Many of them are working-class. A few vets.
I have no problem with people preferring Hillary on actual issues, or even “electibility”. But this nonsense about how the supporters are all dudebros is plainly false and just plain insulting to many of us.
Self-righteousness is a heady draw. Don’t fall for it.
Thoughtful Today
…
Clinton supporters _contempt_ for women supporting Bernie risks seriously backfiring, Chyron HR.
Again:
Sanders winning millennial women from Clinton.
In that poll Bernie “won 50 percent compared to Clinton’s 31 percent among millennial women”.
Clinton supporters sneering at those women’s _choices_ seems like the wrong track to win their support.
Ramalama
@Prescott Cactus: No hadn’t heard that trick. But these days there’s a counter added to something – either the cannister or the blue holder thingamabob. Weird but I always think of my asthma as a private me-only thing because no one else in my family has it. And none of my friends do, either. Only strangers. So I don’t get to chat with anyone about tips and tricks of the … trade. Thanks for the tip.
Ramalama
@Groucho48: Zero tolerance for rule breaking, you mean? It’s not fighting on school grounds. It’s lending a breath.
I’m reminded of how Dan Savage will occasionally send a call out to his listeners on his podcasts to send a letter, email, or make a phone call to some dumb ass principal for doing X. X being something completely horrible and terrible. And sometimes getting a bunch of strangers to bombard an otherwise business-as-usual office can make the principal backtrack. I’m thinking that could be something we do here. Where’s the school?
ice weasel
Isn’t the real issue here not just the aging fox leadership but viewer base. Isn’t true that in five years like sixty percent or more of fix viewers will likely be dead. Which really doesn’t bode well for the next republican election, does it?
I’m not saying republicans are dying off at that rate. Sadly, new idiots are born and raised every day. But fox is a bad place in the short term as a company who has pandered, almost exclusively, to older and older viewers.