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There was a skit on SNL years ago where the primise was a super-cheery local "Good Morning" type of show. Will Ferrell was one of the participants, along with two females (one of whom, I believe, was Jan Hooks). The show is going along nicely, with pre-scripted vapid banter, when suddenly the telepropmter quits. The "personalities" don't know what to do. They become increasingly desperate. They start blithering. As they become more and more inane, the Will Ferrell character starts to stare fixedly into the camera and, as if in a trance, as if controlled by outside forces, begins to call for all white people to arm themselves and to down into the black neighborhoods of the city and...

And at that point the teleprompter comes back on line, and they settle down and go back to the script as if nothing had happened.

I believe that sums up what the liberal management of the SRM believes "ordinary Americans" would do, would call for, if they were allowed to say what they are really thinking on a mass media venue. This is one reason (they believe) that on-air talent must be carefully vetted for political correctness, baked in at the organic, subconcious level.

They fear this because they know that just one incident of this type could lead to an FCC takeover of all the networks, which of course is an existential concern to them (and so is understandable, at least to some extent).

They project this fear onto FOX News. Partly it's because FOX is beating the crap out of them in ratings. Partly it's because they think that their goals and priorities should be the goals and priorities of the universe. They are so confident that they are on the true side of right in the great struggle between right and wrong (which, oddly, many of them profess not to believe in) that they think a threat to their world-view is a threat to civilization itself. This, in turn, is because they live in an echo-chamber where only a very monolithic view of life is acceptable. That view of life comes down to this: the lowest common denominator is the guiding standard in all content decisions. Of course, when it comes to their personal compensation levels, perks, choice of friends, etc., the "lowest common denominator" is the farthest thing from their minds.

This is not hypocritical, of course, because they so ernestly take the side of the lowest common denominator in their "on-screen" personas. This is such a noble gesture on their part that they deserve a pass on all contradictions between the lives they lead on a personal level and what they call for for everyone else.