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Did FOX cancel the Glenn Beck Show because he is nuts or is he simply moving on with his next career goals?
[Apr. 9]
Fox News, along with Mercury Radio Arts, the company Glenn Beck founded, announced Thursday that The Glenn Beck Show on Fox News will be canceled later this year. Fox News has seen a 30 percent drop in ratings for the Glenn Beck Show amid accusations that Fox News has become an outlet for the Republican Party rather than an independent and unbiased news source, says NewStaar Media.
But celebrity newscaster Glenn Beck hasn’t quit just yet. He and Fox News still are on good terms. According to the Business Insider, Beck told Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor that Fox still was the only cable outlet from which to offer cable news. Nevertheless, Beck said that times are changing and hinted that media must change with it.
Glenn Beck told Bill O’Reilly during a recent celebrity interview:
“We have to reach different audiences, we have to reach younger.”
“So now what? Well, its not enough for me to say, as a citizen, ‘You know what? You go out and help people. You do it.’ Its time for me to do that as well.”
According to GlennBeck.com, Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts, will continue to work with Fox News on a new partnership where Beck will assist with development and production of a variety of television show productions for Fox News as well as other digital media holdings. No details were given on what the partnership might look like for Glenn Beck or Fox News.
The site also reported Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox News as saying, “Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody’s standards. I look forward to continuing to work with him.”
Meanwhile Glenn Beck will continue to host his radio show, heard on more than 400 stations nationwide, and will continue to promote his best-selling books.
Clearly Beck, who is known for his often divisive and incendiary commentary attacking liberal media and politics, is not going to be stepping out of the limelight anytime soon. What awaits Glenn Beck and Fox News fans is uncertain, but one can bet any new relationship between Beck and Fox News will capitalize on Beck’s over-the-top portrayal of news and politics.
For more some of Beck’s more noteworthy antics, check DailyPress.com for his quotes on the president being racist, the 9/11 victims being whiny, and the Hurricane Katrina victims on television being scumbags.
Sources close to Beck have refused to comment on the speculation that the talk show host may be spiraling into delusions based on his conspiracy theories, ones that may require professional psychiatric help for him to snap out of.
However, many who have watched Beck rise to power as an entertainment media source believe that he may have been let go because he is simply coming unraveled. They seem to think he is so pro-American that he has lost touch with what it means to be a world citizen.
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