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Finally Some Good News! OANN, An Extreme Right Media Outlet, Appears to be in the End Stages. [1]
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Date: 2022-07-27
One America News, the Fox for those who need their farcical newsfotainment with even more fascism, appears to be on its way out. I remember the first time I saw One America News. It was at a Dickey’s BBQ in Texas, and I looked up to see what I thought was a joke. They were in the process of calling our sitting President, which was Barack Obama, an enemy of the people.
My exact words to the manager were, “What the !@%$ is this?” She did not know, except that her boss told her she was under strict orders to run it. She did not know what if anything it had to do with BBQ. That was pretty much it as far as my patronage of that establishment.
Often I had run into Fox News at McDonald’s or other such establishments. One of the aims of the franchisees is to allow Fox to seep into the brain. Locally, I rebelled. I told a manager that if you do not turn off Fox News, I will never be back, and lobby my entire neighborhood to never set foot in the store, either. She said the owner would sooner shut the doors than have any other channel on.
Strange how being a true believer, does not require the truth to be believed.
The future of One America News, which established itself as a powerful voice in conservative media by promoting some of the most outlandish falsehoods about the 2020 election, is in serious doubt as major carriers drop it from their lineups and defamation lawsuits threaten to drain its finances. By the end of this week, the cable network will have lost its presence in some 20 million homes this year. The most recent blow came from Verizon, which will stop carrying OAN on its Fios television service starting Saturday. That will starve the network of a major stream of revenue: the fees it collects from Verizon, which counts roughly 3.5 million cable subscribers. In April, OAN was dropped by AT&T’s DirecTV, which has about 15 million subscribers.
This is fantastic news. I needed this. These are some of the deplorablyist of the deplorables. I would like to share some of their most noxious, “greatest hits.”
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