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Fox News will serve as the 'loyal opposition' to Joe Biden, CEO Lachlan Murdoch has announced - adding that the move was designed to boost their ratings. In what was seen as the most frank assessment of the network to date, Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, said that the network would hold the new president to account. Speaking on Thursday at a Morgan Stanley conference, the 49-year-old said that Fox News was aiming to echo MSNBC's success in acting as the main White House critic. 'The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings point of view...

In recent months, the hatred of Fox News from the left has been almost matched by trending memes – from the right! Examples include (to paraphrase) “Fox News has turned left.” “Fox News is being run by Disney.” “The woke wives of the Murdoch sons are running Fox.” “RINO Paul Ryan is running Fox News from his seat on the company’s board of directors.” And so on. All of that is false. Total BS. How do I know? Unlike most of the new anti-Fox critics, I actually watch the Fox News Channel (FNC). I take notes. I have monitored the...

Update on the Fox News Post-Steal ratings collapse. Going from all-time record ratings before their duplicitous Arizona call, to their catastrophic ratings collapse by Monday 1/25. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses since The Steal according to Nielsen as of Monday 1/25: 7am Fox/Friendless -51% 8am Fox/Friendless -51% 9am Perino/Hemmer -48% 10am Perino/Hemmer -41% 11am Faulkner -40% 12pm Outnumbered -41% 1pm Smith/Roberts -32% 2pm Smith/Roberts -38% (used to be Perino's show) 3pm MacCallum -39% (used to be Hemmer's show) 4pm Cavuto -44% 5pm The Five -36% 6pm Baier -51% 7pm Fox Primetime -49% (used to be MacCallum's show)...