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.
Unless you specifically mean TV channels, the right has it's fair share of legitimate news outlets, like the WSJ.
I'm not sure that anyone would be better off with any more 24h cable news channels. The problem with all of these, regardless of political orientation, is that there's only so much useful content that can be produced on an ongoing basis that will appeal to the common denominator. As a result, we end up with the same kinds of talk shows and propaganda pieces that plague all cable news channels, and ultimately serve to delegitimate them.
I believe that anything that could draw viewership away from Fox would be good for us as a nation.
I've listened somewhere that he also opened a restaurant some time ago and it failed, which is why he's so negative on restaurants.
Edit: naeem, I’d encourage you to move past assumptions and actually look at comment histories; in my case at least you’re dead wrong.
"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.
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.