I can remember when Fox was actually a good outlet for conservatives to view. Time for a new competitor to fill the vacuum on cable TV.
I think the debacle reminded Fox who their principle audience is;...I hope they learn from the experience! Fair and Balanced is fine...but sneaky “let’s hoodwink conservatives and slowly change their views by slowly changing to a fully leftist agenda” isn’t gonna fly.”
"I can remember when Fox was actually a good outlet for conservatives to view. Time for a new competitor to fill the vacuum on cable TV."
I remember O'Reilly being nasty after the death of Strom Thurmond, in a way he would never be to anyone else recently deceased ( we'll see soon with Jimmy Carter won't we ). He went so far as to disrespect Thurmond's black child ( okay, halfrican like Barry ). Disgusting.
But the corner was turned in mid-2008 when there was some kind of pow-wow between Team Obama ( Axelrod ) and Fox News ( Ailes or Murdoch ), specifically about NOT covering his background of Communism ( baby momma and daddy, Ayers, etc ), Islam in Indonesia, and his lack of natural born citizenship ( no President ever had a foreign father ). They treated Obama as if he was any other run-of-the-mill (D)ummycrat from suburbia, and not like the foreign-influenced America-hating domestic enemy he was.
Then during the TEA Party summer of 2009 and election season of 2010 remember the Glenn Beck era when he was dominating the evening shows and on the verge of unseating O'Reilly. They eased him out in 2011 and the TEA Party coverage became rare and pathetic. With their tacit acceptance of Obama's eligibility, Obamacare and rejection of us TEA Party crazies they completed their morphing into just another alphabet media outlet.
There are countless other examples of infighting and palace intrigue but really all we ever needed to know was that they hired Geraldo Rivera. The Murdoch empire is all about tabloid, and brings these under the same roof ...
... among many others. The only thing missing is Jerry Springer.