[A Citizen Reporter]

Fox News’s total audience fell 24 percent in the past year, to 1.3 million viewers from 1.7 million, and its key primetime audience, viewers ages 25-54, was down 7 percent in October on a year-to-year basis, to an average 363,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

That is an interesting article, and per ususual the pundits reach the wrong conclusions about the cause of the audience drop. I can hardly believe that someone would say with a straight face, that 2005 was an "incredible year for news compared to 2006 (an election year)".

Fox News has taken such a left turn, that most often, I have to completely turn the TV off, and I've done it more since August of 2005 than I have in my life. Witness the guest coming up on F & F......Dan Rather. Is this a joke?

You got a big problem, Roger Ailes. Do you intent to fix it?

[Roccus]

Think anyone at Fox will have the stones to ask McCaskill about the ACORN voter fraud indictments?

[BonnieJ]

Fox did have Steve Harrigan on demonstrating the "water-boarding" tecnhique that is actually used in Navy Seals training but has been flaunted by the MSM as "torture" that Cheney advocates. Steve Harrigan is quite professional anyway. And they had that special about Islam terrorists. Some times they do still try for balance!

[Miss Marple]

Between my sistercalling and having a discussion on Christmas toys with my grandson, I missed Rather (I hope).

Since Fox's base of viewers were people like us, one would think they would be a bit worried. However, since Ailes hired that jerk for president of the news division, I am thinking he is simply on autopilot and doing whatever Murdoch wants.

When they lose some of their advertisers perhaps they will get a clue.

[kcbc2001]

Not surprised. Chris Wallace is a lightweight compared to Tony Snow on FNS. I love Hannity, but not H&C. I tuned O'Reilly off one day and found that I didn't miss him-so unless I'm just flipping through the stations, I don't stop at his show at 8pm.

I like that they still feature Republicans that may not be household names, but the way they harp on the celeb scandals just drives me insane. I could care less about Laci, Tom and Katie, Natalie, AnnaNicole and all the other things that are supposedly "newsworthy". They look more like the "old media" every day. So what's the difference if we watch their station or another?

I was impressed that they had the courage to play clips from Obsession - which makes me realize they aren't CNN, but a lot of the time they look more like CNN than the Fox I used to know....has Fox "jumped the shark"?