How has Fox News changed the political landscape?
Well one of the things that has happened is cable news kind of used to be that NBC, ABC, and CBS were where you got your news. Well, cable news, starting with CNN kind of was where 24 hour news channel kind of went in a different direction. What happened is CNN is owned by Ted Turner who is a liberal democrat. He is married to Jane Fonda. So, now CNN claims to be objective and says it's objective just like most news media outlets. However, Republican conservatives felt like they weren't getting a fair shake and that the media was against them. So Rupert Murdoch who owns Fox News and now The Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Post and the Washington Times and a ton of other things created Fox News to be the ad alternative. And so Fox News not only was it an alternative in terms of saying it's objective like CNN isn't objective, but also created news in a more fast-paced, more, hate to say entertaining, but definitely more fast-paced, colorful, kind of ADD style that CNN has now adopted and MSNBC has adopted. And it also allowed for those people who really felt that they weren't getting a fair shake on CNN, those conservatives, it allowed them a place to go. And it worked out wonderfully, beautifully. So much so that now MSNBC to a certain extent is trying to be the liberal alternative to Fox News.
