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- One America News is a lesser-known
news outlet that has seemingly won President Donald Trump's stamp of approval. - The six-year-old network is something of a surprise competitor for Trump's long-touted favorite and massive conservative mainstay, Fox News.
- I watched the network's news and opinion programming for a week to see for myself how the network might have caught his eye.
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Fox News, a longstanding favorite news outlet of conservatives, spent the first two years of President Donald Trump's administration largely avoiding his fiery insults of the news industry.
Recently, however, the network has faced his wrath as it has appeared openly conflicted over the president's impeachment troubles and slowed its on-air tokens of goodwill. As Trump has grown more open with his disappointment in Fox, one network appears poised to take the spot of Trump's favorite.
One America News is a lesser-known outlet that has seemingly won Trump's stamp of approval after dedicating huge amounts of coverage to the administration, including airing Trump's rallies in full and having opinion anchors casting impeachment proceedings by House Democrats as a lie-ridden "frenzy."
Ratings show the network's rising popularity. As of March 2019, data measured by
After seeing Trump praising the six-year-old network on Twitter, I wanted to see for myself how the network might have caught his eye.
This is what I learned about OANN after watching it for a week.
