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FoxNation.Com | 03/30/2009 9:20 am

Fox Nation – FNC to Take Over TV, Internet?

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Fox Nation

Is Barack Obama’s administration the best thing to happen to Fox News? Perhaps … but let’s wait and see if conservatives turn to the Internet for their news.

Piggybacking on right-leaning Fox News Channel’s soaring success, FNC has launched its brand on the Internet — with the brand-new website, FoxNation.com.

According to the Fox Nation website’s purpose statement, "The Fox Nation is for those committed to the core principles of tolerance, open debate, civil discourse — and fair and balanced coverage of the news. It is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression and worship."

The website, developed by the makers of the cable station that’s ever skeptical of President Barack Obama, targets conservatives seeking to band together. "We felt that giving people a real destination to go and express themselves would give them a feeling of belonging," says Senior Vice President Joel Cheatwood. "People feel they’re dictated to a lot by the media."

After eight years of the network’s top commentators often siding with George W. Bush’s White House, according to Nielson Media Research, FNC seems to fare much better with the 25- to 54-year-olds when they’re critical of the government. Will websites also achieve success by approaching politics in a quizzical and incredulous manner similar to that of the suits on FOX?

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DeBúrca obj
It’s like a cancer that just keeps growing no matter what you throw at it. Between this and the fact that our local newspapers are failing, this country is in deep trouble that goes far beyond economics.
By DeBúrca obj on 03/30/2009 9:31 am
Lars Svengarden
The cancer is the idea that anyone with an alarm clock should give part of their hard-earned wages over to those that don’t have one, wouldnt’ know how to set it, and refuse to work either way.  Abraham Lincoln said it best, the fruits of on’es labor belongs to the laborer.  There is no government money—-the government makes nothing—-it is and always will be taxpayer/worker money.  Stop turning us into slaves for the State.
By Lars Svengarden on 03/30/2009 5:34 pm
Libra Lady
This is a fabulous site….love it…and the blogging is outstanding….thank you FoxNation…"perfect timing"!!!
By Libra Lady on 03/30/2009 9:33 am
Mary Quite-Contrary
Good morning LL, Fox has a few kinks to work out. I tried to post from my phone, but Fox is running in javascript only. Bummer…I am sure they will change that.
By Mary Quite-Contrary on 03/30/2009 9:54 am
HA BIBI

LL,

I just added to my favs, great site and look forward to visiting there as well! Also, Kathleen Sebillus, Health and Human services nominee, just paid up her three year deliniquency regarding her failure to pay taxes. She claims an unintentional error……Liberal Translation…..What she really meant was that she had attended the Timmy turbo-tax academy of default by ignorance!

By HA BIBI on 03/31/2009 6:10 pm
Libra Lady
HB…I just heard that tonight on FOX NEWS….(love that network)…I guess you don’t have to pay your taxes unless you are selected as a possible nominee for a place on bho’s staff….these honest mistakes are getting old….another broken record….do you suppose if I don’t pay my taxes on the 15th, that I can use that excuse….yeah….I’m so sure that will work….I think she is perfect for bho’s staff…he will feel more like home with the Chicago Machine…full of radicals and crooks….Hannity is going to love this on "Liberal Translation" tonight….how funny!!!
By Libra Lady on 03/31/2009 6:48 pm
Libra Lady
HB….forgot….FOXNATION.COM is fabulous…what a great site….and the bloggers are wonderful….Harold Koh got over 980 posts already….I guess many have lots to say about bho’s selection….lmao
By Libra Lady on 03/31/2009 6:55 pm
Mary Quite-Contrary
What is wrong with Fox successfully marketing a website to like minded viewers? Savvy move. Even Secretary of State Clinton, back during the Bush adminstration, stated emphatically “Dissenting opinions are patriotic!” A cancer? Ahh no. Maybe just a little bitterness at the ratings failure that is uberLib MSNBC?
By Mary Quite-Contrary on 03/30/2009 9:38 am
DeBúrca obj
Cancer cells grow much faster than healthy cells, so it fits with your analysis. Liberals do not form cults around personalities or networks. Ratings say nothing about quality nor do they say anything about what is good for society. You can just look at some of the garbage reality shows to prove that.
By DeBúrca obj on 03/30/2009 9:46 am
Mary Quite-Contrary
The media markets answer to what viewers want. Liberal slanted, talking points driven,”leg tingling” television is tanking. Big time. Ask yourself why? Maybe because they are not producing what viewers want. Its funny that WoW and Fox both put up a picture of Rush (who is not on Fox, he has own network/website). Rush’s ratings, courtesy of Obama admonishments NOT to listen to Limbaugh, have skyrocketed (and his numbers were high to begin with). Ask yourself why that occurred also. Rush, like Fox, has found a large segment of America as an audience. That’s how it works. Is AirAmerica even still on the air?
By Mary Quite-Contrary on 03/30/2009 10:02 am
Libra Lady
Mary…quite true….and now Glenn Beck is moving up the FOX NEWS ladder…"big time"…..that sure didn’t take him long….he said it’s nice to be-able not to be told what to say on FOX like they did on the "other" network!!!  We are seeing a new movement excelling big time!!!  What a great website….FOXNATION you ROCK!!!
By Libra Lady on 03/30/2009 10:10 am
Mary Quite-Contrary
So much hyperbole isn’t there? Successful media is akin to a life threatening illness, because other peoples’ differing opinions are being expressed. Is this still America? I keep posting over, and over, and over, that the most dangerous threat to a free society is “group think.”. We all have to be on the same page. Or else! Did you know that Dr. Bob Bosso, who does the Thomas Paine YouTube videos (reading from the actual writings of Tomas Paine!!!) has been called to the White House to discuss his radical “theories!?!?”. His theories are the writings of Thomas Paine!!! Yet, Fox news launching a webbie for their viewers to be an online “community” is a tumoresque problem? I havta ask again, is this still America?
By Mary Quite-Contrary on 03/30/2009 10:21 am
Mary Quite-Contrary
Here is a Rush Limbaught quote for: “Liberals always see people as groups, that have to be ‘named.’ Blacks; Evangelicals; Hispanics; Wal-Mart-Voters…the list could go on and on, but Rush ends the theory with “Conservatives actually just see people. Not lables.” I think that is what Beck’s viewers connect with; a funny, passionate, imperfect human. His thoughts and humor on our Country is striking a reality with obvious millions of viewers. You are the one projecting prejudicial thought as to what others perceive. Bringing in Mitt Romney’s grandfather? Kinda like bringing back to light that President Obama and Dick Cheney are sixth cousins…it means nothing.
By Mary Quite-Contrary on 03/30/2009 2:18 pm
Amanda C
Conservatives actually just see people. Not lables …. Unless that label is "Gay" or "Liberal". Ha!
By Amanda C on 03/30/2009 2:28 pm
HA BIBI
Both these groups have an uncanny and predictable way of announcing themselves!
By HA BIBI on 03/31/2009 2:05 pm