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The FAUX News Network
Background
The FAUX News Network Corporation was founded on September 11th 2014.
While there have been various rumours and stories about the supposed people behind FAUX News, it was initially simply the reaction of Founder and Head Anchor Carry Saunders, to find out whom she should vote for in the upcoming elections.
Ms. Saunders saw the first advertisments, attempted to inform herself about the candidates and their programs from a neutral, critical source rather than just the party's advertisement.
This attempt failed, however, due to an obvious lack of independent media in the state of San Andreas.
Being originally a spoiled and good-for-nothing partygirl, she decided spontanously to fill in this gap and registered
FAUX News, her very own business.
A studio was set up in her friend's house at Verona Beach, she bought a few cameras, told some people to hold them at her while she did interviews at the mall, and FAUX News was born.
The original investment was 70,000.- USD.
Six weeks after it's foundation, FAUX has meanwhile moved it's place to the Capitol Tower in the market district after a lot of internal trouble at the Beach.
The sudden rise in popularity was less caused by the newspaper publishment, but rather by the ongoing live reports FAUX does all over the city (Making TV turned out to be a good idea to just besides become famous, who would have guessed!)
The booming company is today, 14th December 2014, noted with a net value of close to 49,000,000.- USD at the Los Santos stock exchange.
Carry Saunders holds 90% of the shares.
Political Orientation
The FAUX News Network and it's various publishments and broadcasts are a crossover of the independent, alternative media scene, according to it's self-claimed status as the alternative to the established press -Ms. Saunders has just recently found out that the SAN is in fact dead and she holds an effective monopoly already, left aside the regular sex tape releases of wannabe-celebrities- and the right wing gutter press, following the political background of it's founder who grew up well protected in a white area in the South, where the people still dream of the good old days and how much better it would be if everything just was as god had intended it.
Following this, the networks publishments lead a strict agenda against abortion, homosexual marriages, "None-natives"-in offices, taxes for rich white people, muslims, illegal immigration, financial regulation, street crime and anything the founder defines as "left wing" and "endagering for our children/souls".
Journalistic Ideals
Following her decision to found FAUX News, Ms. Saunders used the three hours it took to register the business, to quickly visit the wikipedia website and inform herself a bit about journalism, and what one has to take care of in such a job, besides looking nicely in the camera.
FAUX News claims to provide investigative journalism - up to "the truth" that the big man denies the public to see.
The protection of the sources of information -after all, a good news network should provide information before it reaches public, and things that everyone knows already- is the second great ideal of FAUX News.
The freedom of press comes up mainly everytime someone official does not want to talk, and seems unlikely to take bribes. Yes, there is corruption in Los Santos.
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