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Originally Posted by Oblong
Why do you guys even think there was a "market" for Fox anyway? Because the majority of people were tired of the way the "real" media was handling things. Why were they tired? Because the "real" media is biased. So Fox came along and exploited the biases of the other half of the country.
It's laughable and in some ways sad and pitiful, that some cling to the belief that the likes of CNN and MSNBC may be a little bit biased, it was nowhere near as bad until big bad Fox came along and made them do it. I don't think they really believe it though. They're just saying what they were told to say by the likes of Move On and Media Matters.
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Perhaps you should consider how people on the ideological fringe consider objective fact to be biased, since it contradicts their fringe world view. I don't think you have any evidence that the "majority" of people were tired of the way the media was handling things. Yes, there is a market on the ideological fringe of the right wing for a news station that reinforced their fantasies about politics in this nation. I think you'll find, however, that a very large majority of this country finds Fox News to be ridiculous.
Fox doesn't represent half of this country. It has, at most, 3 million viewers at a time. Last time I checked, this country has over 300 million people. So Fox represents, at most, 2 to 3% of the political views of this country, and most of it is the far-right fringe that is going to think anything based in fact is biased, since their world view is not based in fact, but on an ideology. The fact that there is a market for Fox means nothing about whether there is actual bias in the rest of the "mainstream" media. All it proves is that there is a market for a channel that reinforces people's already skewed perception of this world.