Fox News, founded in 1996, hasn’t been around all that long when you consider CNN was launched all the way back in 1980. Does Fox News have a conservative bias? Heck, yeah — that’s one of the reasons it’s been such a success. And one key to success in a free market is to provide a service that isn’t already widely available — not to mention one that people are willing to pay for (see Air America for how that worked out).
New York magazine and HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali created a mini-thread on Twitter Saturday in response to news that Hillary superfan Peter Daou and his wife had launched something called Verrit, a media platform for Clinton’s “unrepresented” voters.
For those in the progressive world who think the solution to Breitbart/Fox News is to create a progressive version…you're absolutely wrong
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 4, 2017
2. If you have a problem with those media organizations, the solution isn't to create a progressive version, support/build media orgs..
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 4, 2017
3. That engage in non-partisan reporting…you don't respond to partisan reporting, calling it a problem, by doing more partisan reporting
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 4, 2017
4. There's a big push by HRC supporters to create a progressive media org (not referring to Verrit) – big mistake but that's none of my biz.
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 4, 2017
We can’t say we disagree with any of that, apart from the suggestion that there aren’t plenty of progressive versions of Breitbart and Fox News out there, including HuffPost.
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/904799476656861191
https://twitter.com/mycogitare/status/904808946795520003
There are plenty of those already. All failing miserably.
— Facts Matter (@convoice) September 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/TempletonTJones/status/904799737999761408
https://twitter.com/DaveBcore/status/904799132983943168
And Mother Jones isn't that?? https://t.co/Ht9znrav58
— Kaitlin, gargantuan woman (@thefactualprep) September 4, 2017
You're referring to MSNBC I take it? Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell? That was not the solution?
— AmyL (@amyeve) September 4, 2017
Yeah pretty sure MSNBC is already on it.
— TaraNoelle (@Tara61979) September 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/KC11A18A/status/904800774097702913
You already have 90% of the media on your side. Fox and Breitbart are alternatives in and of themselves.
— Firemonkuu (@Firemonkuu) September 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/michi83/status/904800059904098304
True enough. Some, though, seem to believe there is no progressive alternative to Breitbart and Fox News. Even Alec Baldwin was fuming this spring that MSNBC was swinging too far to the right, and this summer, Mark Ruffalo threw his weight behind a petition telling MSNBC to stop its “white conservative hiring spree.”
The progressives are trying to create a solution because the folks in your field aren't doing their job. Else there wouldn't be any need.
— _____?_____ (@ThinSkinTrump) September 4, 2017
Once more, just for laughs: Daou actually claimed he co-founded Verrit because Hillary voters “are unrepresented in the media.”
They ARE the media.
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Related:
‘HAS to be satire’! Did Peter Daou make the most HILLARYOUS claim about the media EVER? https://t.co/TKAdHUVha2
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 4, 2017
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