VANITY FAIR: Is Donald Trump’s Endgame the Launch of Trump News?
It’s an interesting theory, but the timetable in the article’s lede doesn’t ring true. CNN was well established before 1992 and its claim that MSNBC had parity with FNC in 2000 isn’t how I remember the floundering pre-Olbermann phase of the network. But in any case, why should Fox have the center-right largely all to itself on cable TV?
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