One media source just might be the One
America Now Network (I’ve seen abbreviated both
as OANN and OAN). I’ve known about OANN for quite a while. The incident that
increased that network’s bona fides for me is the effort of the Leftist managed White House Correspondents Association
(WHCA) attempt to bar OANN White House Correspondent Chanel Rion from White
House pressers. The MSM networks have been vilifying OANN as Right-Wing
conspiracists AS IF Left-Wing MSM conspiracy lies should be watched, listened
and read as valid!
Chanel Rion - OANN
With my thoughts in mind, below is a FrontPageMag article that
enlightens on OANN and the attempt to bar Chanel Rion.
JRH 4/6/20
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Leftwing Media Try to Block OANN from White House
Briefing Room
Threatened by conservative media outlet’s growing
clout.
By Joseph Klein
Apr 6, 2020
One America News Network (OANN) is a conservative TV network
that was formally launched on July 4, 2013 at the annual Conservative Political
Action Conference (CPAC). OANN is owned by Herring Networks, Inc., a family run
business. Robert Herring Sr. is the founder and CEO. The network’s president is
his son, Charles Herring. OANN and Newsmax TV have served admirably as alternative
conservative voices on cable TV. Before the launch of both these networks, Fox
News stood alone to counter the prevailing leftist sources for TV news and
political discussion.
OANN is
carried by DirecTV, AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS,
CenturyLink PRISM, Frontier Communications, and GCI, as well as by numerous
local and regional distributors. However, OANN could be reaching many more
households if some major cable distributors carrying its competitors’
programming would agree to distribute OANN as well. Charles Herring told me
that he believed some cable companies were engaging for political reasons in
“viewpoint discrimination.” Democracy suffers, he argued, as a result of such
efforts to suppress diverse programming voices.
OANN has most recently been the victim of blatant viewpoint
discrimination at the hands of the leftwing White House Correspondents
Association (WHCA), which arbitrarily voted on April 1st to bar
OANN’s White House correspondent Chanel Rion from the daily White House
Coronavirus Task Force press briefings. Her “sin” was asking President Trump a
question that hit too close to home, after various White House correspondents
had used the race card against President Trump for calling the virus that
originated in China the “Chinese virus.” At the March 19th briefing,
after introducing the concern that “major left-wing media, even in this room,
have teamed up with Chinese communist party narratives,” Rion asked President
Trump to comment. “It amazes me when I read the things that I read,” President
Trump replied.
The leftwing media retaliated against OANN’s White House
correspondent for speaking truth to power. First, an anonymous note was left on
Rion’s desk asking her whether she thought her question was helpful in halting
the spread of the coronavirus. Three days later, the White House Correspondents
Association mandated that the seat assigned to OANN since 2017, which for years
was shared by only one other news organization, now accommodate five networks,
including Al Jazeera. OANN’s seat was singled out for such treatment. On March
23rd, OANN was placed in the “supplemental Seat Rotation,” a shared seat
with a total of 10 media outlets. OANN for all intents and purposes lost any
reasonable opportunity to participate in the briefings as a result of the
WHCA’s discriminatory edict. When OANN managed to secure an invitation from the
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham for Rion to stand in the back of
the briefing room, the White House Correspondents Association dropped the
hammer and sought to close the briefing room door to OANN altogether.
CNN’s Trump-hating Jim Acosta and Oliver Darcy reported that the White House Correspondents Association voted on April 1
to “remove One America News, a small right-wing media organization, from the
rotation for a seat in the briefing room.” They went on to rationalize this
outrageous action by claiming that the “decision was made after a fringe
personality for the far-right media outlet, Chanel
Rion, continued to attend the briefings, in defiance of the WHCA's new rules
limiting the number of journalists in the room.” Charles Herring has confirmed
that OANN’s White House correspondent was present as “an invited guest to the
President’s briefings by Stephanie Grisham, White
House Press Secretary.” Chanel Rion stood apart towards the back of the room to
adequately address any social distancing issues. “The WHCA organization members
were aware that Ms. Rion was extended an invitation by Stephanie Grisham but
took retaliatory action anyway,” Charles Herring said.
The briefing room is on the White House premises, which
belongs to the people and not to the White House Correspondents Association.
Yet the White House Correspondents Association tried
to flex its muscles to keep Rion, an accredited journalist, out of the White
House briefing room. It didn’t work. Rion communicated with Stephanie Grisham
and received another invitation to
attend the April 2nd White House press briefing. Rion not only appeared
at the briefing. President Trump called on her for a question, which disturbed
the lamestream media no end. “Trump makes sure to take a question from OAN
staffer Chanel Rion even though she was banished from the White House
Correspondents’ Association for attending briefings she wasn’t supposed to be
at,” leftwing Vox reporter Aaron Rupar tweeted.
If capacity problems exist because of social distance
requirements, then CNN, which has inexcusably skipped President Trump’s
introductory live remarks at the briefings in favor of its own vapid talking
heads, should begin sharing its seat with nine other media outlets. Remember
how CNN’s Jim Acosta whined when his White House press credentials were
suspended for good reason back in 2018? Now he leads the leftwing media
mob in smearing OANN and trying to block its access to the White House briefing
room in contravention of OANN’s constitutional right of freedom of the press.
OANN fits neither the “small” nor “far-right media outlet”
caricatures that Acosta fabricated. The network is currently available in
approximately 35 million homes. OANN was ranked as the fourth-highest service
in the genre of networks categorized exclusively as Cable, News/ Business/ Info
networks, according to data compiled by third party national ratings service
Comscore as of March 2019. Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN ranked ahead of
OANN, but OANN outperformed other cable networks including CNN Headline News,
Fox Business Channel, CNBC, BBC World News, and Bloomberg. For the week of
March 23 -29, 2020, as measured by ComScore across 70 markets on one of the
country’s major national distributor’s set top boxes, One America News Network
ranked 25th out of 307 national cable networks of all genres. In other words,
OANN has climbed to reach the top 10 percent of national cable channels in the
Comscore rating.
One reason for OANN’s growth may well be the bright line it
has drawn between its straight delivery of news and its conservative-leaning
opinion shows. The network presents 19 hours of unvarnished news Monday through
Friday. Conservative-leaning opinion shows occupy only a limited number of
hours in the evening. The opinion shows include "The Daily Ledger,"
hosted by Graham Ledger, and "Tipping Point," hosted by Liz Wheeler.
OANN draws its news packages from journalistically respected
sources such as Reuters, Euronews, and the Associated Press. OANN is a
subscriber to the live "pool" footage provided by major national networks
such as ABC and CBS. The network also operates its own news bureaus in
California and Washington, D.C., as well as a small office in New York. The
news anchors are not allowed to express their opinions as a matter of corporate
policy, Charles Herring told me. "We're trying to return news back to just
news, and really distinguishing that divide between opinion and hard
news," Amanda House, the Washington bureau chief, explained as quoted by
the National Journal. "We have a
ton of people who watch us that have no right-leaning tendencies
whatsoever."
Even liberal Marty Kaplan, who holds the Norman Lear chair
at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication
and Journalism, has acknowledged OANN’s success in maintaining a wall between
its news coverage and its opinion shows. Kaplan wrote in a 2015 article for HuffPost
that “the Herrings have so far walked the talk about walling off opinion
programming from news… Minute for minute, and nearly 24/7, OAN delivers more
hard news about America and the world, more impartially, with less attitude,
less lighting up of our lizard brains, and less of a
makes-you-want-to-take-a-shower factor, than any other news on TV.”
OANN’s record of unbiased news coverage does not matter a
bit to such leftwing smear machines as Media Matters, however. They shamelessly
slam OANN with slurs like “racist,” “conspiracy-mongering” and “shilling for
Trump.” But Rachel Maddow and her MSNBC network took matters far beyond such
badmouthing. They brazenly slandered OANN when Rachel Maddow told her audience
that OANN “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.” Maddow and her network
refused OANN’s demand for a retraction, employing doublespeak to argue that the
term “literally” as used by Maddow was a “kind of figure of speech that connoted
opinion.” To the contrary, Maddow represented as fact, not opinion, that OANN “really
literally is paid Russian propaganda,” in reckless disregard of the truth.
OANN filed a defamation lawsuit last September.
OANN’s lawyer explained that “One America is wholly owned, operated and
financed by the Herring family in San Diego. They are as American as apple pie.
They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government.
This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a
court of law.”
For years, Fox News was alone in presenting a conservative
perspective on cable television. Newsmax TV and OANN have added two more fronts
on the conservative side in the battle against leftwing dominance of news and
the national conversation on American TV. Rachel Maddow, Jim Acosta, Media
Matters and their comrades in arms do not believe in the marketplace of ideas.
They want to corner the market all for themselves and engage in the currency of
lies, ad hominem attacks, and false accusations to go after those they consider
their ideological enemies. These left-wingers have tried and failed to bring
down Fox News and Newsmax TV with such despicable tactics. They are trying to
do the same to OANN. They are afraid that OANN, with its expanding household
reach, is fast becoming an effective therapeutic to their pandemic of leftwing
bias and lies. They have reason to be afraid.
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