[dave_sullivan]

Part of being a working conservative today is "might makes right", "the ends justify the means", and "the weak lose while the strong win". "Lying to get what you want" or "working over those rubes" is basically held as a virtue.

Through this lens, the point of having a conservative news outlet can only be to use it as a lie broadcasting machine.

I'm pretty sure if Peter Thiel has something to say, he has the resources to get the message out. In this case, he just wants a situation where there's a bunch of talking heads also agreeing with him as he talks because he is a total tool.

[jimrandomh]

This is not inherent to conservatism; it's a perversity of Fox News in particular. Making a conservative news channel to compete with it would improve that situation considerably.

[dave_sullivan]

I guess I'm wondering what a more principled conservative news channel would have that CNN doesn't?

"More principled" in news really just means reporting the facts with minimal political color. The more you get away from that, the less you should be considered news. The extent to which you still insist you are news, that your opinions or outright lies are facts, is the extent to which you're operating a propaganda machine.

The world doesn't need more propaganda machines. Fox News has been a net negative to the world, except in educating a new generation about modern propaganda and maybe eventually increasing society's resistance to bullshit.

[prostoalex]

> The more you get away from that, the less you should be considered news.

So from that perspective, what makes CNN the golden standard here? I don’t have cable TV, but browsing the listings for my zip code, their lineup seems to be filled with talk shows. I guess the exception would be the airport darling the CNN Breaking News channel.