If you are like me, you’ve breathlessly been watching the new Fox Business Network (this is a lie).
I’m sure you’ve seen the new Fox Business Network posters appearing in the subways, which are begging to be defaced (graffiti “artists”, hoodlums & vandals: get to work, I want to see which direction you go here).
Murdoch said, “”We want to spend a lot of time on innovation, successes and people who are making money”, and Ayn Rand’s zombie cheered! He went on to say that the business channels, “…dwell too much on failures and scandals and politics”. I overheard on NPR that some of this “dwelling” was done too much on Enron. Thank goodness, Fox Business will do to any business scandals, what Fox News did to the Iraq War (wish it away).
I personally hope this reinforces the battle of “wall street vs. main street” reinforces the other war, and finally ends the injustices put upon the majority of Americans by the liberal rich elites. If this is so, I’m sure that the News Corp. will let me know where I stand.
Also please tune in next week when News Corp. introduces the Fox Food Network. Finally getting rid of those frou-frou, pinko, lobster & caviar recipes, and instead teaching you how to cook one of those inherently good, country styled, chicken-fried steak, like a real American.
Until then, if this is your thing, keep watching. I’m sure by this time next year it will be the business channel to watch…and Murdoch will finally fulfill his world domination plans and finish his tireless work on rebuilding the Death Star.
i would literally give up my first born child for a Fox Food Network. the depth of that awesomeness shakes me at my very core.
Say what you will about Murdoch but he is right. Fox will trounce CNBC precisely because the latter focuses way too much on sensational stories about market malfeasance and not enough on markets in general. I like looking at Maria Bartiromo as much as anyone, but the real news is happening every day in the business world: where a new invention is created; where an underperforming company falls; where a major conglomerate acquires a smaller one, where stocks tank or soar. This is useful information. Fixating on Enron and all those evil CEOs might make inadequate liberals feel warm and fuzzy, but it no way improves the market, where the business of America is done, nor does it increase American wealth. Bravo, Murdoch, Bravo!
Personally I think it’s more important than for “inadequate liberals”. I think that one of the few defenses we have left against corporation malfeasance is by making them public. I don’t think the government is keeping that tight of a watch anymore (which I imagine you find a positive thing). So the usefulness is different.
Overall, I don’t watch business television, so I’m not the target market and do I not know the nuances of business television…so I’m really unsure if there is actually a demand for this sort of television. I just find it funny how Fox is gobbling everything up and making a new spin on a different type of channel.