This ‘Centrist’ Cable-News Channel Is Just Fox News Lite

“Welcome to the fairest show on television.”

That’s how host Leland Vittert opens each episode of On Balance, a nightly opinion gabfest on upstart cable news outlet NewsNation. Incredibly, he doesn’t mean “fairest” in the Snow White sense. Despite the show looking virtually identical to every other such show you’ve ever seen, On Balance has a more valid claim to that title than the kind of fairest the host intends.

If an emphasis on fairness and balance brings to mind Fox News, which paradoxically billed itself as “Fair and Balanced” for its first 20 years, that’s not by accident. Vittert worked at Fox News until 2021, and from watching his show, one might still think he does. But it’s not just one right-leaning cable personality who brings to mind that association. Nor is it the many other Hannityville refugees, from former Trump aide and Fox News exec Bill Shine to former top Fox News producers and PR execs, who’ve joined up.

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