“It’s about the social media environment that’s different, that nobody really cares.” Ethan Strauss and Ryan Glasspiegel on the social change at Fox.
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I I don’t know if people like remember in the ‘9s, early 90s, how controversial like The Simpsons were. I’m sure you had friends who weren’t like allowed to watch it by their parents. Now they are this, you know, squeaky queen brand, but really from the advent of Fox, they have gone against the grain and UNPC and whatever. And so I think that as a company, they are probably better positioned to handle it. And you know, Portoi has gone on Fox News and Fox Business Network for years now. So this this has been somebody that their company has been been um comfortable distributing to wide audiences for a long time. I agree. I do think as a hypothetical, if something like this had been tried in 2017, Fox, even if they are the company of Fox News, would have been bullied out of doing it. I think there would have been too many controversial comments. It would have gotten a circulation on that version of Twitter that felt like a storm, that felt like something they had to do something about versus now where yes, they’re a company unlike ESPN. They don’t have as many people within the fold who might be ideologically opposed to Portoi or think they’re ideologically opposed to Portoi. But it’s about the social media environment that’s different that nobody really cares that the comments he might have said about women that were such a big deal in 2017 that seemed to cause a walk out metaphorically if not literally at ESPN. It just doesn’t matter to anybody anymore. The vibe is shifted as people often say. Yes, that is definitely true. Um, now I do I think Fox if they had been if it was something that Rupert Murdoch wanted and was steadfast about, then they would have just told everybody who complained about it to jump in a frozen river. And you would think that this is something that this deal is on the scope that you would think that the Murdoch’s are involved in it. If whether they’re the driving forces or not, I don’t
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Comparing an adult cartoon that's shifted it's marketing to children is a completely different idea than platforming ideological rhetoricians. One is fictional entertainment and the other is propaganda mouthpieces for billionaire think tanks.