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February 19, 2007

FBC: A Quarter at a Time

by AltHippo @ 4:58 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Think Progress follows the going on at Fox so you don’t have to:

News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has announced that he will launch the new Fox Business Channel (FBC) in the fall. The channel is marketing itself as being “more business-friendly” than its rivals.

The post implies that a likely tack for FBC is to sex things up a bit. Here’s how Think Progress puts it:

Cavuto explained, “We’re going to be a channel for America — not for old white men with money.” No, instead, FBC will be “entertaining, informative, youthful,” Cavuto pledged. Given his record, we assume that only means more Playmates, pole-dancing, and nearly nude women.

My first thought was: this could be interesting. On Fox News Channel they could have Dobson going on and on about how liberalism has cheapened the mores of the US of A, while on FBC they could be making their living the hard way: a quarter at a time.

(okay, that’s a pretty obscure reference. There was a short film on Saturday Night Live about prostitutes satisfying their video game addiction. The punch line was they made their living “the hard way: a quarter at a time.” Those of you in the for-profit sector know that businesses release their data on a 3 month basis. Thus, again, they make their living a “quarter at a time” which, presumably, is the hard way. It’s all just a harmless play on words, and no one got hurt in the process.)

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