Seems to me that this is just how business works - and running a news network IS a business.
A lot of investors watch those shows. They may not make direct decisions, but they can influence them.
I’m sure plenty of what you say takes place. But it seems convoluted to me to suggest that everyone expressing an opinion on FOX is bought and paid to advertise specific viewpoints.
What do you think is going on when you happen to agree with one or another of them?
The corporate sponsors who buy ad time on Fox News want me to take that sentiment into the voting booth when “their” candidates are on the ballot.
Perfect example here …
How do people in South Carolina’s political machine like Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley end up being such prominent warmongering globalists on the national scene? It’s because their rise in South Carolina politics coincided with Boeing’s decision to invest $1.5+ billion in aircraft production facilities in that state.
These duplicitous globalists don’t represent South Carolina voters anymore. They represent Boeing’s interests in selling aircraft all over the world, and they peddle their nonsense accordingly.
Fox News + Boeing + naive viewers = a political strategy.