A while back, billionaire Mark Cuban talked about how he wished he could afford to buy Fox News. He thought he could change the fundamentals there to be more fact-based. But I think we all know that it would have been a wasted purchase. All of the Fox hosts and viewers would simply jump to another/new network and keep on lying without an equal deterrent in the media world.
The closest thing to a challenger is MSNBC. However, it's parent company cannot afford for it to get down in the mud and thus lose credibility with mainstream broadcast viewers who look for truly "fair and balanced" news reporting. Proof of this is Joe and Mika of MSNBC's Morning Joe visiting the former/future president on his home turf to limit future retribution. I'm sure that did that on orders from the parent company NBCUniversal.
I believe it's time for NBC to spin off MSNBC to an investor group led by say, Mark Cuban and Bill
Gates, that will go all-in on challenging the march to fascism. We need the likes of Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes to not only challenge what the MAGA crowd says but to take the fight to the streets! They should be challenging sponsors who support Fox programs. They should be creating events t6hat bring tens of thousands of supporters to rallies. They should push fascists and their slanderous lies out into the open with free speech lawsuits based in Democratically led states.
They might even go so far as to create the new entity as a non-profit whose goal is to educate and promote a stronger American Democratic Republic. I envision the American Broadcasting Network (ABN). What better way to engage the masses than allowing them to invest in the team on a tax-friendly basis?
A while back, billionaire Mark Cuban talked about how he wished he could afford to buy Fox News. He thought he could change the fundamentals there to be more fact-based. But I think we all know that it would have been a wasted purchase. All of the Fox hosts and viewers would simply jump to another/new network and keep on lying without an equal deterrent in the media world.
The closest thing to a challenger is MSNBC. However, it's parent company cannot afford for it to get down in the mud and thus lose credibility with mainstream broadcast viewers who look for truly "fair and balanced" news reporting. Proof of this is Joe and Mika of MSNBC's Morning Joe visiting the former/future president on his home turf to limit future retribution. I'm sure that did that on orders from the parent company NBCUniversal.
I believe it's time for NBC to spin off MSNBC to an investor group led by say, Mark Cuban and Bill
Gates, that will go all-in on challenging the march to fascism. We need the likes of Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes to not only challenge what the MAGA crowd says but to take the fight to the streets! They should be challenging sponsors who support Fox programs. They should be creating events t6hat bring tens of thousands of supporters to rallies. They should push fascists and their slanderous lies out into the open with free speech lawsuits based in Democratically led states.
They might even go so far as to create the new entity as a non-profit whose goal is to educate and promote a stronger American Democratic Republic. I envision the American Broadcasting Network (ABN). What better way to engage the masses than allowing them to invest in the team on a tax-friendly basis?