A couple years before the Trump-Cllinton election, FoxNews Corp's owner Rupert Murdoch retired from active management and gave it over to his two sons, who are lefties, accompanied by the strident wife of the one who is left standing to run FNC after a power contest between brothers. That started the drift.
With the SCOTUS weighing in favorably on gay marriage in 2015, the MeToo movement gaining steam in 2017, and the fact that Roger Ailes and a large number of other men at FN were credibly accused of sex harassment and sued, FNC started a move to "atone" for perceived conservatism, which the left equates with being "anti-woman." Megan Kelly's big dust-up with Fox after her biased grilling of Trump in the 2015 debates added fuel to her leaving the network as Trump began his Presidency. Fox management was not in Trump's corner; but no one else generated ratings as he did, so they made a business decision to continue using news about him, while undercutting him with commentators such as Brett Baier, Andrew Napolitano (who was outed as gay for harassing a man) and Neil Cavuto. In early 2019, FoxNews put Paul Ryan on the board of directors, who had hated Trump, and also DNC darling Donna Brazile as a contributor. Ratings with conservatives began to slide.
But the coup de grace was when Fox called Arizona for Biden before the polls even closed out west. As we have since learned, there were a lot of electoral shenanigans in Maricopa and elsewhere in AZ. Fox's decision to influence the election for Biden was widely viewed by conservatives not only as an utter betrayal, but possibly a paid-off decision to participate in what our side views as a Deep-State organized "steal".
Help me out, other freepers; what did I miss?
A couple years before the Trump-Cllinton election, FoxNews Corp’s owner Rupert Murdoch . . .
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If you pulled all those facts out of your memory bank you must be a genius! Many thanks!
I also remember when Bush was elected there was a dust up and the same stopping of reporting. I cannot remember whether it was the first or second election. There were threads on it here and we all could see the news folks were calling the states when we here at fr could see the raw data was for Bush. We called and emailed all over that night and they retracted.