We Need This Like a Hole in the Head

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/5/29/165546/092

We Need This Like a Hole in the Head

by BooMan
Thu May 29th, 2014 at 04:55:46 PM EST


Oh, for Christ's sake:

The conservative cable-news family is about to get a new member. On Thursday, Newsmax Media Inc. announced that it will kick off its new network next month, Newsmax TV, following a recent distribution deal with DirecTV.

The mid-June soft launch, as described by CEO Christopher Ruddy, is expected to reach more than 20 million DirecTV subscribers, and hopes to build off of that launch to reach 40 percent of homes with cable or satellite by the end of the year. The channel will aim to attract the “Baby Boomers” generation.

“Newsmax was born online and as the lines between TV and the web blur, we will attract a growing audience that doesn’t differentiate between the two,” Ruddy said in a statement. “As a result, we are also well positioned to maximize the opportunities provided by ‘TV Everywhere’ platforms to reach tens of millions of Americans.”

The new network will initially feature nine hours of original programming, and move to 18 hours by the end of the year.

In case you are not aware, Newsmax is a wholly fraudulent enterprise that routinely fleeces its own readership through quackery, gold-buggery, and any other scheme they can think of to separate old folks from their money.

I can guarantee you that DirecTV will have quick reason to regret doing business with this outfit. Never mind that Newsmax's "original programming" will be about as edifying as discussing the French Revolution with Ted Nugent and Donald Trump, the real concern is that swindling is Newmax's business model. And if they've grown rich enough to launch a cable channel, I'd say they've gotten pretty good at their swindling.

[randys1]

1. Once the right buys ALL sources of media including news

You will watch America become Idiocracy almost overnight, the ONLY alternative is a blood bath

[villager]

2. So Democratic administrations and lawmakers will keep signing off on monopolistic deals...

...allowing media providers like DirecTV to get bigger, and corner more market?

[PumpkinAle]

3. DirecTV will have no regrets whatsover

this will be like manna from Heaven for the right wingers who don't care if they are being swindled, just as long as they are being spoon fed hate, bigotry and anti-anything that may do someone any good if it costs a penny out of their pockets.

[tanyev]

4. Fox News female on-air talent should be receiving a memo soon

instructing them to raise their hemlines and lower their necklines.

[FSogol]

5. LOL at the Reverse Mortgage Channel.

Maybe Fred Thompson can be the host?