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Foxification

Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Ben Charny
covers Net telephony and the cellular industry.
Ben Charny

Are you a blue cell phoner, or a red one?

Fox's cheeky, take-no-prisoners and decidedly right-leaning attitude helped outline U.S. states in liberal blue and conservative red, and changed TV news forever in doing so.

Now Rupert Murdoch's media company is Fox-ifying cell phone TV news. Its latest step is to make Fox News Channel available to Sprint cell phones for $10 a month. This is Fox live and continuous, not the "mobisodes" of popular Fox programming specifically-designed to watch on the small cell phone screen, and sold on-demand style.

Great. The same talking heads shouting on your TV at home can scream at you from the palm of your hand. What's next? Predicting here that Als Franken and Gore, the blue state equivalents of William Randolph Hearst, will respond with their blue material for cell phones.