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Not sure where to ask this. Torn between here and the Fox News thread but it's more about Breitbart than Fox... so it's going here for now.

Wondering if anyone can enlighten me on the relationship between Fox and Breitbart.

I wandered on to the latter, as I've decided to become a bigot, and watched a fourteen minute clip from Sean Hannity's Fox News show. I can't imagine they are allowed to upload material of that length from a rival media organisation without permission so I'm assuming there is a deal in place.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Not sure where to ask this. Torn between here and the Fox News thread but it's more about Breitbart than Fox... so it's going here for now.

Wondering if anyone can enlighten me on the relationship between Fox and Breitbart.

I wandered on to the latter, as I've decided to become a bigot, and watched a fourteen minute clip from Sean Hannity's Fox News show. I can't imagine they are allowed to upload material of that length from a rival media organisation without permission so I'm assuming there is a deal in place.
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They are both right leaning organizations - Fox is obviously owned by Murdoch and focused on TV. Breitbart is owned by the Mercer family (formerly Robert, now his daughter Rebekkah) and almost exclusively deals with online publishing. Both are generally mouth pieces for Trump, although in Breitbart's case they have occasionally criticized him when he publicly flirts with not keeping his promises to on immigration - and Fox also occasionally speak out if he specifically attacks their journalists like Megyn Kelly in 2015. Other than that, they are massively in the tank for Trump. Since they are ideologically aligned, sharing content and contributors wouldn't be much of a problem to either organization.
 
Raoul said:
They are both right leaning organizations - Fox is obviously owned by Murdoch and focused on TV. Breitbart is owned by the Mercer family (formerly Robert, now his daughter Rebekkah) and almost exclusively deals with online publishing. Both are generally mouth pieces for Trump, although in Breitbart's case they have occasionally criticized him when he publicly flirts with not keeping his promises to on immigration - and Fox also occasionally speak out if he specifically attacks their journalists like Megyn Kelly in 2015. Other than that, they are massively in the tank for Trump. Since they are ideologically aligned, sharing content and contributors wouldn't be much of a problem to either organization.
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Is this something that other American media companies will do a fair bit of too, then?
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Is this something that other American media companies will do a fair bit of too, then?
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Most of them do as long as they clearly credit the source of the information. CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews and the major networks (CBS,ABC,NBC) all routinely share clips of interviews with prominent officials during their shows to get reactions from people being interviewed. Its fairly common.
 
It's common here in the UK too and has been for as long as I can remember. Obviously stations want exclusives but you always see Sky sharing BBC or C4 news stuff and vice versa. The US networks regularly use BBC or Sky footage too.

I think it's just something we see, but don't necessarily notice all the time until it's blatantly obvious like in the Fox/Brietbart example used by DotA above.
 
langster said:
It's common here in the UK too and has been for as long as I can remember. Obviously stations want exclusives but you always see Sky sharing BBC or C4 news stuff and vice versa. The US networks regularly use BBC or Sky footage too.

I think it's just something we see, but don't necessarily notice all the time until it's blatantly obvious like in the Fox/Brietbart example used by DotA above.
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I know short clips are regularly shared. I've seen plenty of clips of Piers Morgan's sycophancy with Trump on the BBC of late. It was the length of the piece that surprised me. I can't imagine the BBC being allowed to show a fourteen minute clip from Sky News.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
I know short clips are regularly shared. I've seen plenty of clips of Piers Morgan's sycophancy with Trump on the BBC of late. It was the length of the clip that surprised me. I can't imagine the BBC being allowed to show a fourteen minute clip from Sky News.
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In the Fox / Breitbart case, the length was probably ok'd since it was probably promoting something both organizations agree with.

When Bannon ran Breitbart, he would routinely talk to and dine with Murdoch, so its likely this sort of arrangement was ironed out a long time ago.
 
berbatrick said:
He's reposted the same thing, effectively:
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Tax cuts, and rises, by nature tend impact the middle class. Don't think in terms of UK class definitions either, most of Americans consider themselves middle class. In reality about 50% of Americans are middle class (Defined by Pew as those earning 67% to 200% of the median income — $39,560 to $118,080 in 2016 — only about half of Americans can call themselves middle class.). The tax cuts undoubtedly impact the wealthy more but they earn a lot more and can actually avoid tax if its too punitive.

We are working professionals and consider ourselves middle class. Our combined paychecks checks were $225 bigger as a result of the tax cuts last week. With 26 pay periods a year that equates to close to $500 extra a month. Most working people are going to see the impact of the tax cuts.

* I would happily surrender the $500 a month and be taxed an additional $500 if public services are improved, and the debt is reduced.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
I know short clips are regularly shared. I've seen plenty of clips of Piers Morgan's sycophancy with Trump on the BBC of late. It was the length of the piece that surprised me. I can't imagine the BBC being allowed to show a fourteen minute clip from Sky News.
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Yeah, fair point mate.
 
Think he doesn't want to be remembered and lumbered with this administration. That's all.
 
Mike Schatner said:
Tax cuts, and rises, by nature tend impact the middle class. Don't think in terms of UK class definitions either, most of Americans consider themselves middle class. In reality about 50% of Americans are middle class (Defined by Pew as those earning 67% to 200% of the median income — $39,560 to $118,080 in 2016 — only about half of Americans can call themselves middle class.). The tax cuts undoubtedly impact the wealthy more but they earn a lot more and can actually avoid tax if its too punitive.

We are working professionals and consider ourselves middle class. Our combined paychecks checks were $225 bigger as a result of the tax cuts last week. With 26 pay periods a year that equates to close to $500 extra a month. Most working people are going to see the impact of the tax cuts.

* I would happily surrender the $500 a month and be taxed an additional $500 if public services are improved, and the debt is reduced.
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Yup, fair enough that the tax cuts may well bring electoral success. It is after all why they are designed to last till 2020 exactly (while corporate cuts are permanent).

But - I think these particular tweets, first celebrating literally $1.50 a week, and then literally saying people should be grateful for crumbs, should be good ammunition for an attack by a competent Dem campaign.
 
berbatrick said:
But - I think these particular tweets, first celebrating literally $1.50 a week, and then literally saying people should be grateful for crumbs, should be good ammunition for an attack by a competent Dem campaign.
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The majority of Americans are not even following the news these days. Pretty much all Americans have a pay check and will see the bottom line going up. Unfortunately Tweets like that are practically irrelevant in terms of moving the needle.
 
sun_tzu said:
Any evidence they are capable of that... Especially as they are going to have a full on presidential shit storm thrown at them that will probably dictate the news cycle
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I have no idea.
It also depends on how they run. "We will give you a functioning affordable healthcare system and stop corporations from fleecing you" or "We are patriots who will never sell this country out and will restore decency to America's image and political life"?
 
Good news. It'll take a long time but hopefully gerrymandering will be eradicated.
 
http://peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/02/05/the-median-young-family-has-nearly-zero-wealth/

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