Monday, April 21, 2014

One American News Network





OANN

Dear Rodger,
I was surprised to learn of this news network from a nephew and wondered if you'd heard of it.
One America News Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News

Fios 116
Regards,
Tom (Mann)

No, Tom, I'd never heard of OAN.  I do have Verizon FIOS, so I immediately dialed in 116.  I saw what appeared to be a BBC style news program; rapid fire news being delivered by news readers; deadpan expressions; no voice inflection editorializing.  Below are the news topics covered for 20 minutes and 20 seconds, beginning at 7:39 AM 0n April 21, 2014.
At one point a news reader advised, "Remember, if you see any area of the news that is not being covered, contact us at ... ."

Here's what The Daily Beast has to say.

“The news used to be you would confirm your source multiple times, you would report the fact, and you would leave it up to the viewer to determine what we should or should not do. That is missing,” he (founder Charles Herring) said.
Soon Rupert Murdoch’s behemoth won’t be the only conservative cable news station around, the founder of One America News Network, set to be unveiled at CPAC today, tells David Freedlander.
A new right-wing news and talk station is coming to cable boxes later this year, The Daily Beast has learned.[...]

One America News Network, on the other hand, has a two-tier mission: providing opinion-free straight news reporting and right-leaning talk shows.

I'll let this commenter to the Beast column sum up.


Judging by the majority of the comments on here I find it quite amusing how threatened people (mostly libs, progressive, and Dems) seem to be by the thought of this new conservative news channel. Maybe they are worried that some of their ilk might watch and start questioning things.

Thanks Tom


4 comments:

drew458 said...

Not yet available on the Comcast/Xfinity platform. But if enough patrons write in and ask for it, maybe they'll pick it up.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

LOGIC 101

It seems to me that the test of any news service is:

1. Is the news of the day honestly covered?
2. Is the news provider criticized for covering everything? Or ...
3 Is the news provider criticized for burying news with political importance?
4. Is the news provider quick to acknowledge errors? Or ...
5. Does the news provider continue with story lines that have been widely discredited as falsehood?

Would you continue to play poker with someone who's been caught cheating?

This is all common sense.

Seems.

Anonymous said...

Live streaming (SD) is available here: http://media.oann.com/

Not supported on Safari, though.

-DanInTampa

Anonymous said...

@DaninTampa...
Thanks for the link - watching now.
My pitiful Dish Network doesn't carry it.
(Why am I not surprised?)

Monday Anon

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