"We all owe a huge huge debt to Fox News."
YES WE DO! The Fox News Channel came along soaring high above any other cable news broadcasts, because they broke the liberal monopoly on the news and presented, to their best ability and with their highest efforts, the real truth as to what is going on in government and the world. Opinions, commentary and news in a 55% to 45% ratio. And that is why my liberal acquaintances, watch it exclusively, up from even a year ago.
Actually all Fox did was to dumb down the concept of news to a romper-room set full of garish colors with graphics that go whhhoooossh and proceed to talk about the scary monsters of whatever issue was going to sell at the time. And hire a bunch of talking heads to talk
about the news -- rather than report it, which is much more expensive-- to put a slant on it that would keep the viewer coming back enthralled like Special Ed is... "coming up, how Harry Reid is going to kill you, right after this".
45% news on a "news" channel. Wowie zowie. If my orange juice was 45% juice I'd take it back to the store and throw it in their faces.