If you’re an ideologue, yes. If you’re a business, no.
Imagine your job is to make money for Fox. News and commentary are the mechanism you have to convince advertisers to buy ads on Fox News Channel. That’s the only reason it exists, you know...to make money. If you think they’re a charity you must be confused with PBS.
So, as a Fox News executive, what causes more people to tune in and generate higher ratings: strict conservatism or controversy? What would you like to see happen, CNN’s lawsuit summarily thrown out, or for it to drag on for weeks or months? Which side would you be on, the side that wants Acosta to fall off a cliff or the side that wants more Acosta and more arguments with Potus?
You certainly have every right to believe as you wish, but from a business perspective, what Fox is doing is the smartest move for Fox and it’s shareholders. Which is what any good business should always do.
Maybe someday people will stop expecting companies who provide news/information platforms to be objective or act like political parties rather than acting like a business.
Not if it keeps making moves that drive viewers away and make them hunger for another channel.