“Fox could clear that up by cleaning some house and getting rid of Megyn Kelly and Shep and replacing them with less irritating and more “fair and balanced” sounding talent.”
FNC has more systemic problems than just Megyn and Shep. First, their “talent”, biased or not, is not very talented. CNN election coverage has blown the sox off of FNC in terms of astute analysis by astute analysts. FNC has the same handful of nimrods and bozos on all of their shows every night.
Second, FNC doesn’t have any national, much less international, correspondents, unlike CNN and the big 3. FNC relies exclusively on the local yokels at their affiliates.
1. Accuracy: Improve accuracy, reduce false positives, verify
2. Timeliness: Identify and report emerging news quickly, other networks often beat FNC
3. Content: Show format. The three panel guest format where they yell over each other gets tiresome.
4. Trust: Personalities. Luntz, Meg K, Rove, Rivera, Juan -- before them Beck, Colmes...do not trust their political analysis.
What little TV I do watch, I find CNN to be more palatable (strange, I know!)