True, though I won't say Fox has become liberal though it does do a good job of presenting all points of the view.
To Foxfyre: Every time I surf into FOX I hear a liberal espousing the liberal point of view that I wouldnt listen to on the other networks. It seems to me that FOX management implemented its own version of the Fairness Doctrine.
It wouldn't command ratings that beat all the other cable news channels combined if it did not provide something other than the liberal point of view.
To Foxfyre: I know its about ratings and advertising dollars. If you put a stopwatch to many of FOXs shows youll find that they are 30 minutes product commercial and 30 minutes program. Youll be lucky if you get a minute of two of actual news in a one hour show; and the crap is repeated over and over again throughout the day. Put all of that aside and youre left with one thing: FOX does more to put the liberal message into conservatives ears than all of the liberal networks combined. My major beef is FOXs phoney fair and balanced B.S. To me, fair and balanced is individuals deciding to watch a conservative network or a liberal network.
To Foxfyre: Im not sure The Five is a success. No show with Bob Beckel as a regular can be a success with conservatives who constitute at least half of FOXs audience. Put it this way. If Beckel was on a liberal network show no conservative would tune in.
Incidentally, Ive surfed into OReilly a few times and there sits Beckel. That tells me The Five needs a bit of pumping up.
To Foxfyre: Glenn Beck was dumped when FOX decision makers realized a motivational speaker had a show on their news network. Becks departure was no more than that.
To bripat9643: It doesnt get better than that!
To jasonnfree: Then you should be thrilled if Rush comes back.
They even bought his power ties to wear on the program. Here he's making millions off these rubes and he still has to hustle them for their chump change. O Reilly's no better with the coffee cups and doormats.
To jasonnfree: Nobody is forced to buy anything. On the other hand, you and your kind do not object to the scum who get rich on tax dollars, nor do you object to the parasite class everybody is forced to support. Of course, you could be one of them. If thats the case you have to be envious of everybody who does well without living on tax dollars. Bottom line: Envy is the foundation for every governments authority.
if Mr. Limbaugh really wants to show how mighty he be, he'll buy a half hour and go head to head with Mr. Stewart's Daily Show.
To MeadHallPirate: I know who Stewart is, but I dont know enough about him to lay odds. Im sure El Rushbo will fare well against any liberal.
Beck's ratings had been slipping, and the non stop barrage of harrassment from the Left spooked some advertisers. He was STILL beating the competition on other cable news programs, but not as impressively as he did during the healthcare debates. He was losing his producer at Fox and there were some other tensions. . Part of the problem was that his show was so complex and involved so much stuff, you couldn't just listen to it casually or intermittently and get the gist of the day's 'lecture'. And once he was providing historical reference of less interest to the average viewer, many were not taking the time necessary to follow it. I don't know whether his leaving the show was entirely mutual, but there is plenty of suggestion that it was at least partially so. Beck remains as an inivted correspondent from time to time at Fox, however, being on with O'Reilly in just this past week.
O'Reilly apparently thinks Beck is less controversial than some since he still engages him in dialogue and I don't recall him inviting Limbaugh onto his show, quoting him, or otherwise engaging him.
I frequently disagree with Beck's take on this or that--also Limbaugh--but they both do impeccable research and you can learn something from both. But then I don't have to agree with everything somebody says to appreciate that they have something to offer. Sort of like I took your post.