'News Hour is Fox News on steroids'

January 07, 2016 18:34

"If you've never seen The Newshour, then imagine nine disembodied heads surrounded by flames screaming at you in a format and colour configuration that looks like a pub fruit machine. Then imagine one large head in the middle that controls all the other heads and shouts more than them and at a greater volume. That's Arnab, the one shouting head to rule them all. His show is Fox News on steroids. It makes most other news programmes look like an official broadcast of a 19th century royal coronation."

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