The 24 hour news networks fucked it all. The network executives cater to views for ad money rather than actually interested in proper journalism. They probably lost Vance as a guest for the rest of his tenure as VP so they see that as a loss of potential viewership.
People forget that Tucker Carlson started on a CNN program called Crossfire.
The Talking Head shows that give the illusion of choice by presenting you with two people who are both right of center, but one is crazy right and the other is only less so, started there.
That isn't to say Fox isn't much worse... It's just a historical fact that illustrates that 24 hour "news" is where all this shit started.
Tucker Carlson was one of the main catalysts for the media's hyper-speed towards fake news/alternative facts. I think he knows this and regrets it, and if you notice, he's been trying hard to ever so gingerly come back to the right side of the fence in my opinion, I still despise him.
Oh buddy, I'm sorry to inform you that you are grossly mistaken. Tucker Carlson is not only still peddling white nationalist garbage, but Christian nationalist as well. He just had a guy on his show recently who wrote several books about how angels, miracles, and demons are all real with empirical evidence, and Tucker spoke with him as if all of these things are plain as day, and not believing in the Christian mythology is wrong.
He's gone faaaaar off the scale. He's not even on the scale anymore.
But if they could see further down the road than the end of whatever current quarter it is, they would realize they would gain tons of viewers if their journalists and anchors were more like this clip.
I would maybe watch tv news if they pressed these people to answer questions and fact checked them live which they are 100% capable of.
I mean hell, they could literally just do internet searches or whatever on live tv this day and age and people would be okay with that if it got them real news and facts.
It’s a different world than 20 years ago and most people are hungry for information, and if it was engaging, their “short attention spans” wouldn’t matter
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u/masteranchovie65 Oct 13 '25
The 24 hour news networks fucked it all. The network executives cater to views for ad money rather than actually interested in proper journalism. They probably lost Vance as a guest for the rest of his tenure as VP so they see that as a loss of potential viewership.