{"id":4400,"date":"2019-11-15T13:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2019-11-15T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:06:37","slug":"an-impractical-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"An Impractical Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/why-does-michael-bloomberg-think-democrats-want-another-billionaire-businessman-ncna1083001\">This<\/a> is an amusing liberal fantasy, but is it really practical? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>If Bloomberg or Steyer (or Bloomberg and Steyer as a partnership) buy Fox News, and tell their employees to run a real news outlet instead of a right-wing propaganda mill, what will Fox News&#8217; talent do? <em>Some<\/em> of them might comply with the new boss&#8217;s orders, but many wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch would be flush with cash thanks to the transaction, and use it to start a brand new right-wing propaganda mill. (The market viability of such things has already been proven by today&#8217;s Fox News, of course.) The disgruntled talent from the old Fox News would jump ship to the new network, as would the audience for that talent.<\/p>\n<p>It would all amount to nothing more than a very expensive game of Whack-a-Mole.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, there <em>is<\/em> a problem with Steyer and Bloomberg using their money to run as primary candidates, and there <em>are<\/em> much better ways that both could be spending their money, but buying Fox News is <em>not<\/em> one of those ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an amusing liberal fantasy, but is it really practical? Probably not. If Bloomberg or Steyer (or Bloomberg and Steyer as a partnership) buy Fox News, and tell their employees to run a real news outlet instead of a right-wing propaganda mill, what will Fox News&#8217; talent do? Some of them might comply with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}