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The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters.

According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.

Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line.

At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

Symmetry wrote:Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters.

According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.

Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line.

At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

Phatscotty wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters.

According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.

Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line.

At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

or maybe they are just election pundits, and they don't need election pundits the month after the election?

john9blue wrote:can we make this thread a poll asking which people think this is a legitimate study?

better yet, if you think this is a legitimate study, just post here saying so.

i want to see which of you "intelligent, scientifically-minded liberals" are too stupid to understand basic statistics and detect bias that you happen to agree with.

john9blue wrote:bitch i don't even OWN a television. get on my level

john9blue wrote:bitch i don't even OWN a television. get on my level

john9blue wrote:wait... what? i'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion... probably the same way you arrive at a lot of your conclusions

Symmetry wrote:

Phatscotty wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters.

According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.

Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line.

At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

or maybe they are just election pundits, and they don't need election pundits the month after the election?

Interesting- you don't think that the problem is that they were terrible and ridiculously partisan? You think that they are banned apart from high level approval because they're only election pundits?

Phatscotty wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

Phatscotty wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters.

According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.

Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line.

At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

or maybe they are just election pundits, and they don't need election pundits the month after the election?

Interesting- you don't think that the problem is that they were terrible and ridiculously partisan? You think that they are banned apart from high level approval because they're only election pundits?

They are who they are. I think being so wrong with their predictions has more to do with it than any of the posted feel-good political masturbation.

Phatscotty wrote:The nation????

some 58+ million people were pro-Romney. It seems natural that Pro-Romney people would enjoy a pro-Romney anything rather than an anti-Romney anything

And you are wrong. The entire channel did not go pro-Romney. There were a couple Ron Paul people, as well as many others who did nothing more than challenge the constant streams of bullshit from Washington D.C.

Timminz wrote:According to an American conservative organization, the average Fox News viewer has an IQ of only 80*, which is officially classified as the dividing point between "dullness" and "borderline deficient"**.

Some might argue that Fox is making people stupider, while others might argue that stupid people are naturally more drawn to Fox News. I postulate that these results are biased, and merely reflect the fact that intelligent people, when asked by a stranger, will not openly admit to getting their news from Fox.


* http://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-inst ... 22242.html

** http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqbasics.aspx

Symmetry wrote:

Phatscotty wrote:The nation????

some 58+ million people were pro-Romney. It seems natural that Pro-Romney people would enjoy a pro-Romney anything rather than an anti-Romney anything

And you are wrong. The entire channel did not go pro-Romney. There were a couple Ron Paul people, as well as many others who did nothing more than challenge the constant streams of bullshit from Washington D.C.

Huh, fair enough, I guess some people went with Ron Paul, a few weeks before he retired, the shattered broken Republican racist that he was.

I don't see that as a redeeming feature of the channel.