[iowamark]

Long essay, but interesting.

[matthew fuller]

I refuse to give any of my info to NYT.

[Deagle]

Nice that the NYT publishes this as it definitely gives credit to FOX and especially Megyn Kelly! Strange but true.

[allendale]

Bottom line. The leftist MSM is astonished, jealous and livid that Fox News is having the effect it has on the American people. Since its inception trust and profits have lessened considerably for what once was a profitable, influential monopoly on information for the leftist MSM.

[AZLiberty]

And yet, for a network that wants to grow in both viewers and dollars, Ailes’s favored demographic has begun to pose something of a constraint. In an online survey, the Pew Research Center has found that 84 percent of those whom it identified as “consistently conservative” already watched Fox News. Moreover, though Fox News regularly wins in the demographic that matters most to advertisers — those viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 — it has the oldest audience in cable news, a fact that its detractors are quick to point out. How many more of Ailes’s “average Americans” are there who are not already tuned into Fox News on a regular basis?

Fox makes a big mistake by trying to grow by watering down their nearly-conservative offering. If they want to grow, they should set up another network, or take over CNN.

[TigersEye]

Jim Rutenberg, you are a numbskull.

[yetidog]

I like Megyn,..who wouldn’t? But her Megyn moments borrow heavily from the insufferable O’Reilly where the adversarial position is more likely a function of attention than conviction. That’s why the NYT (who has no conviction) has taken notice.

[Norm Lenhart]

Shes a liberal. Thats the only thing that matters.

[lee martell]

Megan became famous after she was almost 40. She is fortunate to have kept both her youthful appearance and her sense of timing on how to spice up the interview. Sometimes she gets a little too spiced up. I don’t know if I would have bluntly told Former VP Cheney to his face on camera that ‘time and time again, history has proven him wrong’ about the wars on terror.

She could have jump started that old man’s heart. Or maybe she already knows him via Liz Cheney, his daughter. Maybe Megan knew he could handle that verbal glass of water thrown in his face with strength and poise, as he did.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Of course there was the Meghyn moment with Newt. Or was it a Newt moment. LOL!

[Gumdrop]

Why would anyone watch Rachel Maddow when they could be watching Megyn Kelly?

[Sans-Culotte]

I don't watch Fox much anymore, but when I did, it was because of the challenging questions that were sometimes asked. In Fox's early days, I used to love to watch O'Reilly (before he became a legend in his own mind) because he was about the only interviewer who would say "I don't think you answered my question" when some politician tried to change the subject as they all do. Tim Russert used to have an undeserved reputation for asking tough questions, but he always let the pol skate on the answer. If you ask a tough question and let the guest skate on the answer, then it negates all the alleged toughness of the question.

Megyn is a bit of a bulldog and doesn't let people off the hook, which is as it should be. Hers is not the show on which to appear if you want to be thrown a few softballs.

[Mad Dawgg]

Astonishing...

Not that Megyn does whatever she does...

Astonishing that people still watch cable news...

[PeteePie]

Aren’t there “rules” here that aren’t being followed? (as in Pic)