US President Donald Trump recently expressed dismay at Fox TV, which has long been a favorite and served him. "Obviously, Fox is no longer what it was," he said.
After years of special relationship, the US president seems to be shifting his attention to another, smaller and more right-wing channel: “America News Network-OANN”.
The channel began in 2013 when it was founded by a technology financier, Robert Hering, who sought to offer a more conservative choice within the map of media giants.
Since then, the channel has won over Donald Trump, who repeated his praise last week in a tweet in which he also referred to Fox and CNN, which is a source of great inconvenience.
“Look at the fake news of CNN,” he wrote on Twitter, where he has about 63 million accounts. “In the end, it would be better than watching Shepard Smith's weakest track record on Fox News. "In fact, as soon as possible I moved to Wann."
Since March, he has reprinted articles posted on the channel's website, and on more than a dozen occasions he has liked it.
The Twitter founder, Robert Hering, has a tweet that he says is "the president's favorite channel."
When Fox News broke off an election interview for Donald Trump last week, Herring tweeted: "We never cut it!"
Thank you, "This is great." - Their relationship goes back a relatively long time. Since 2015, John McCain's former vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has interviewed Trump, who has been co-host on the channel.
During his first press conference as president of the United States in January 2017, he gave a number of questions to the channel at the expense of prominent media, which was repeated dozens of times during the daily press conferences of his spokespersons during the first 100 days of his presidency.
At a White House press conference following a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump publicly praised the channel's work while giving the floor to its correspondent Emerald Robinson.
"Thank you for the wonderful way you are eating," he said. we appreciate that". “This is really great. "What you are doing is very nice."
Wanan is headquartered in San Diego, California, but is not subject to monitoring by Nielsen, a reference industry.
If she identifies herself as a “pure news, no opinion” channel, her bias towards Trump is clear, he told the Washington Post in 2017 of a number of former employees.
Despite his criticism, it seems that Donald Trump has not completely turned on Fox News, which he sincerely follows its morning program «Fox & Friends» and participate in it from time to time by telephone or through meetings scheduled before the White House.
The president has strong ties to Fox News: one of her biggest names, Shane Hannity, was promoted to Trump in 2016.
But as the presidential election approached, Trump publicly alarmed about Fox News's televised interviews of Democratic candidates looking to rival him in 2020.
In May, he tweeted, “It's hard to believe that Fox News is wasting time for” Pete Bottiggig, the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and is ranked fifth in the Democratic primary. "Fox is moving more and more to the losing side by covering the Democrats," he said.
Fox News polls on the presidential election have been a source of inconvenience.