The Fox News Channel’s days as a reliably extreme right-wing conservative Republican propaganda source may be numbered, according to media watchers.
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A report from Politico claims that in the wake of Roger Ailes’ departure from the network in disgrace, there are questions about whether Fox News will continue to offer the same type of right-wing conservative programming that has made its fortune over the course of two decades.
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Rupert Murdoch has stepped in as interim CEO and director of Fox News, but has made it known
that he will be handing the operation over to his sons. Rumors have flown for years that the Murdoch sons — who are less extreme than their right-wing propagandist
85-year-old media magnate father — are embarrassed by the stupid, embarrassingly bad right-wing antics regularly featured on the network.
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While some in the industry argue that Murdoch would never give up the lucrative cash cow that Fox News has become, others say that the network is losing its cachet with viewers.
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Fox’s audience is aging and dying off, they argue, and many once-loyal viewers have abandoned the network in favor of alt-right media sources like the KKK News.