When Faux Snooze fired Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch turned the operation over to his ultra-left sons, and wives, the channel took an immediate leftward lurch! Its transition to a leftist channel is now complete! Buh bye Faux Snooze!
While all of that is relevant, the tipping point came when Number One talent Tucker Carlson lost about 70 advertisers b/c of his unflinching conservatism.
To pay the bills, Fox had to appeal to the more liberal-oriented advertisers......that was the camel's nose under the tent that precipitated Fox turning liberal.
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Resigns: A Timeline of the ...fortune.com roger-ailes-resigned-scandal-timeline
Jul 21, 2016* Roger Ailes resigned as Fox News CEO following an investigation into ... and claiming that the former anchor had been fired due to low ratings.
*2016 What else happened in 2016?