[hrhdave]

>>The short answer is that Fox is perhaps the most popular cable News channel but it is not, IMHO, a true news organization.<<

FOX News Channel offers breaking news, features, and opinions. It's a news organization.

You really haven't addressed the issue I raise, friend. The news is a business. The purveyors of news have to give their customesrs what the customers want. The customers were content with Lib drivel for many years. Many still are. But a marginal amount of them, sufficient to turn the bottom line red, are starting to demand something different. The media are going to have to deliver the goods their customers want.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You really haven't addressed the issue I raise, friend. The news is a business. The purveyors of news have to give their customesrs what the customers want. The customers were content with Lib drivel for many years. Many still are. But a marginal amount of them, sufficient to turn the bottom line red, are starting to demand something different. The media are going to have to deliver the goods their customers want.

I'm the one who emphasizes what sort of business "the news" actually is. It is in fact part of the entertainment business. The imperatives of that business are to hype your product, and to have fresh product every day. That makes journalism superficial.

Journalism also is negative; bad news sells. And bad news cannot but insinuate that the organizations/institutions we rely on are inadequate. That makes "the news" consistently anticonservative.

Talk radio is really a reaction to the anticonservatism of journalism;
talk radio is in large measure news coverage of news coverage. And what I see in Fox News programs like Hannity and Colmes hardly differs from talk radio.