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"Nowhere is the influence of major news providers more robust, after all, than on the airwaves of Fox News. Across the daily schedule of the No. 1 cable news network, that influence is inescapable, with host after host citing stories from The Post, the New York Times, Reuters, CNN, Politico, Axios and so on — all outlets heavy with reporters who bring scoops to bear on topics dear to Fox News viewers.
Fox News’s reliance on mainstream organizations underscores the permanence of aggregation on cable news, a model that stretches back to the medium’s beginnings: Cite a scoop from a newspaper, analyze, repeat. Much of the U.S. newsphere these days, in fact, consists of a news outlet with trust problems sharing exclusive reporting from another news outlet with trust problems. Fox News pretends to abjure this model, as its hosts and guests routinely chide the news-breaking outlets that nourish it.
Yet it abjures nothing. It delivers so much aggregated news from those major outlets that its viewers have become banner consumers of the mainstream media, though they’ll tell you they wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot … WiFi connection.
In this symbiotic loop, Fox News distinguishes itself by depending wholesale on other outlets to supply its material and by biting the various hands that feed it. Its attacks further alienate conservative America from mainstream outlets, which are struggling for revenue streams. As time wears on, legacy media might be less and less able to furnish Fox News with the scooplets to pad its round-the-clock coverage. The network, accordingly, might have to reengineer its workflow to fill the gaps.
Those high-profile media-bashers at Fox News, in other words, might have to step down from their perches and do some shoe-leather reporting. "Hey, Sean, we’re gonna need you to embed with the Buttigieg campaign. We’ll get you a decent per diem.""
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If MSM goes down, Fox News might actually have to do news reporting.
Fox News’s reliance on mainstream organizations underscores the permanence of aggregation on cable news, a model that stretches back to the medium’s beginnings: Cite a scoop from a newspaper, analyze, repeat. Much of the U.S. newsphere these days, in fact, consists of a news outlet with trust problems sharing exclusive reporting from another news outlet with trust problems. Fox News pretends to abjure this model, as its hosts and guests routinely chide the news-breaking outlets that nourish it.
Yet it abjures nothing. It delivers so much aggregated news from those major outlets that its viewers have become banner consumers of the mainstream media, though they’ll tell you they wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot … WiFi connection.
In this symbiotic loop, Fox News distinguishes itself by depending wholesale on other outlets to supply its material and by biting the various hands that feed it. Its attacks further alienate conservative America from mainstream outlets, which are struggling for revenue streams. As time wears on, legacy media might be less and less able to furnish Fox News with the scooplets to pad its round-the-clock coverage. The network, accordingly, might have to reengineer its workflow to fill the gaps.
Those high-profile media-bashers at Fox News, in other words, might have to step down from their perches and do some shoe-leather reporting. "Hey, Sean, we’re gonna need you to embed with the Buttigieg campaign. We’ll get you a decent per diem.""
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If MSM goes down, Fox News might actually have to do news reporting.
