I wonder if less influence from Hume is allowing this slippage to the center, now that he’s semi-retired. And of course you have to wonder about the Saudi influence too.
Roger Ailes is no dummy, but his network is now vulnerable on the right if someone with deep pox would scrap this “fair and balanced” crap and just have an unapologetically conservative network. What Fox has lost in ratings over the past year would by itself make a strong cable viewership.
There just won't be an all out conservative network. Maybe the powers-to-be have warned anyone with that idea or maybe there aren't the positioned people that are true conservatives. As we know, it would be the top watched network.
A true conservative network could steal 50% of the FNC audience within three months. Ailes is attempting to increase his audience by appealing to anyone to the right of CNN. He is following the old RINO tactic of ignoring conservatives and moving as far left as possible without totally alienating conservatives.
Is Roger trying to drive down the value of fox and then try to buy the corp?