What can one say. Write trash and lies and charge a fee? I can get it for free on my local Fox station.
Well, you may have crossed a line there, even if inadvertently. Local news is real, however well or poorly reported, while FNC/tabloids are less real than reality TV. They are a fantasy shaved somewhat close to reality on purpose and orchestrated to get ratings/circulation by appealing to small minds rather than the truth, and according to the ratings for FNC, there must be an awful lot of them out there. But FNC and local news are two different things, apples vs. oranges.
Unfortunately,
The Daily finds it roots much closer to FNC and the Murdoch tabloid approach than to local TV, including stations affiliated with, or even owned by, Newscorp/FOX. Media companies, especially television companies, are completely derivative; maybe they were hoping some of that FNC mojo would rub off. Far be it from me to stereotype, but it probably had something to do with shooting for a tech-savvy audience being just the opposite of the audience glued to FNC. They probably would have done much better if they emulated the local news model, which is completely different than the FNC/tabloid model, instead. Pretty ironic.
But there's much more at work here: compare
The Daily to something as elegant and useful and customizable (and as free) as FlipBoard, and it is easy to see why it tanked. And this is not the last one. USA Today's app, and business, along with a lot more mainstream outlets' apps, and their businesses, are in real trouble.
But back to that crossed line: while the graphics are similar, and FOX's owned and operated stations are overseen by Roger Ailes who also orchestrated FOX News Channel for cable, that FOX affiliated (or even owned) stations may have the same tinge of yellow journalism as FNC or
The Daily would only be completely coincidental, if even true. Local FOX stations are entirely either to blame, or to be praised, for their content; local editorial management is in control of that, not FOX. The only mandate they get from Ailes and Newscorp is to get ratings. How they do that is entirely up to them.
Their only visible connection is that FOX stations are allowed to run occasional hard news pieces hosted by FNC talent, and that FNC talent may occasionally cross over in reporting hard national news stories on FOX stations' local news. Stations are not expected to get into the professional-wrestling soap opera of opinionated commentary or skewed analysis that is FNC, not even a little bit. Some stations may not do all that great of a job, but to paint all FOX stations with a broad brush as if they were all clones of FNC or Newscorp tabloidism is to just not have a basic understanding of how things work.
You do have to have average intelligence to understand the distinction, however. Two guys named Steve are not always the same guy, even though they may share the same name, or may both have appeared in the public eye or once stood in the same spot; Steven Jobs was quite different from Stephen Baldwin.
Two different guys, just like two different news outlets that use a similar or even the same name. That's not all that difficult to grasp, or is it?
Most folks do understand that their local news anchor is working for an entirely different news organization (in terms of who edits and manages what content is shown) than their network nightly news anchor, even if the show title might be eerily similar and even owned by or affiliated with the same company or shown on the same channel, and the fact that local news comes from a wholly different place than FNC or
The Daily comes from in terms of content should not cause any more cognitive dissonance in their pointed little heads than that does. Sadly, that is not always the case, and your post underlines a not-that-uncommon failure to understand that, pretty dramatically.
