1. Fox News was very tough on the last Democratic candidate for president. (But MSNBC was even tougher on the Republican).
Yes Fox is biased toward the right. And MSNBC is biased to the left. Hardly startling.
2.The Fox News audience skews more ideological than that of its two main competitors. The analysis says more about Pew than the fact does about Fox. There are other possible deductions - perhaps more Liberals misidentify their positions as mainstream rather than Liberal.
3.Fox News is expensive. The cable and satellite companies are not charities nor are they altruistic. They are paying for what they see as the value of the audience that Fox brings. If MSNBC could demand more fees, why would it not do so?
4. Fox still leads in audience, but that audience is smaller than it used to be. This fact is true for all three channels in the graph and more so for MSNBC. A neutral person might draw the conclusion that television viewership is moving to other technologies.
5. Fox outspends its rivals. If Fox outspends its rivals and it is receiving more licensing fees, one can conclude that its business plan is superior or “it takes money to make money.”
Facebook I jnow isn’t news but some of my liberal friends posted how Russia could get a Olympics. I copied and pasted a reset speech by Hillary and Obama by the next morning delete.
“2.The Fox News audience skews more ideological than that of its two main competitors. The analysis says more about Pew than the fact does about Fox. There are other possible deductions - perhaps more Liberals misidentify their positions as mainstream rather than Liberal.”
I concur. WAY too many liberals label themselves conservative in an attempt to appear mature. The two friends of mine that are liberal truly believe they are conservative, as they expound the virtues of wealth redistribution, big government and restricting liberty.