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http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/are-donald-trump-stephen-bannon-and-roger-ailes-cooking-post-election-media-empireAfter Trump loses, dont be surprised to see Bannon join forces with Trump and Roger Ailes (the former Fox News guru deposed for engaging in sexual harassment of employees who recently jumped aboard Trumps sinking ship) to create a new right-wing media conglomerate Trump TV or Trump Media linking Breitbart News to a new cable network that will almost make Fox News look tame and responsible. Together, Trump, Ailes and Bannon would run their media empire to advance their common goals: gaining political influence, massaging their massive egos, moving the Republican Party further to the right, attacking Democrats and liberal ideas, and promoting a neo-fascist agenda combining xenophobia, racism, sexism, government-bashing, and anti-immigrant nativism.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)for Third-Way ideology rather than the content of the party platform.
lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)Perhaps a competitor would break the stranglehold that Faux has had on conservative media. Not sure if a good thing or bad thing.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)as the Palin Channel.
Cable Networks will have to think twice about a channel run by degenerate Ailes.
And they will get no sponsors.
Trump really doesn't have the money to set this up anyway.
That's the first thing that I thought of when I read this!
One can only hope.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Trump will move to monetise the Trump voter demographic. However, I think we will see Fox move closer to the center and focus on the GOPe and right leaning Indies. Trump will have the GOPar viewers and will bring on Alex Jones to fuel the paranoid of the uneducated, low info that is now Trump's base. There will be a war between the factions, leaving little time for either to focus on the democrats.