Fox turns 30 years old today

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• Princess Alice

  2016-10-09 06:17:45

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Have a foxy birthday, you old network, you!
• Imipolex G

  2016-10-09 06:19:10

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  *Simpsons quote*
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-10-09 17:13:06

  get out of my month you conservative shithole
• Tre

  2016-10-09 18:38:50

  
  

  glennmagusharvey said:

  get out of my month you conservative shithole

  
  well, yeah, their creation was on the 7th, but AU's talking about the one that isn't news-y
  
  (Fox News is 20 years old now as well)
• Imipolex G

  2016-10-09 18:51:13

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  always found it kinda weird how Fox News turned out to be a conservative thing
  
• Tatterhood

  2016-10-09 18:53:02

  it turns out foxes don't really care about news so they had to find a different audience to target
  
• Anonus

  2016-10-09 19:43:48

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Mad Cow Disease said:

  always found it kinda weird how Fox News turned out to be a conservative thing
  

  Rupert Murdoch has made a mint off of peddling conservative viewpoints, here and in the UK

  
  

  Anyway this is about the Fox Broadcasting Company, not the Fox News Channel
• Imipolex G

  2016-10-09 19:57:31

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Thing is, back in the day, Fox made it kind of a thing to be seen as "edgy" or whatever compared to the big three networks.
  
  So when Fox News starts up, it's.......aimed at stodgy old people?
  
• Anonus

  2016-10-09 20:02:55

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I always thought that was weird too, in that regard

  
  

  Especially because Fox News also uses a lot of this "cool" rock-tinged music that doesn't sound like it's for senior citizens
• Tachyon

  2016-10-09 20:04:47

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i thought it was about rebelling against the government and being an edgy iconoclast
  
• Tachyon

  2016-10-09 20:05:15

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  well actually i thought it was about creating a political climate favourable to Rupert Murdoch
  
• Anonus

  2016-10-09 20:12:58

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Both

  
  

  Ol' Rupe's lost his touch lately, the Fox people said that the position ESPN was in now was similar to that the Big Three were in in 1986, and how CNN was in 1996, and so they launched Fox Sports 1, which has, three years in, already started just calling itself "FS1" and weakly imitating its older nemesis
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-10-09 20:46:54

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  As for Fox News, Ailes got the boot for being despicable on a personal level and I think one of the Mini-Murdochs is running it now?

  
  

  Incidental note: Rupert Murdoch's father was a war correspondent and investigative reporter back in the day, so he didn't just get into news out of love of money, although that did help.