Now here's something interesting: According to Cable Game Ace Brian Stelter (now slumming for The New York Times), Fox News has chosen Facebook as its main social-networking partner.
But wait a second: Isn't Facebook the big rival to MySpace? And isn't MySpace owned by the News Corporation, which also owns FoxNews? Isn't that a bit... strange?
Well, yes, until you consider that MySpace recently reached outside of its own corporate family to do a deal with MSNBC, which is not only a rival to Fox, but is owned by NBC and then GE,which are rivals to News Corp. And of course, as noted on Saturday, MySpace has played host to those execrable "artists" The East Coast Avengers, who rap "songs" about killing Fox talent.
The Cable Gamer has always been skeptical of corporate synergies. And evidently, the various cable and social networking players are also skeptical.
