re: Why Fox News is Winning

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Fox and other 'conservative' news outlets give media a balance it didn't have before. The idea that news media somehow only became biased recently is revisionist history. The media has been biased toward liberalism for a solid 80 years, and before that the political divisions as they are today were unrecognizable. The only thing that has happened is that we now have other outlets such as Fox or the internet to compare to the NYT or NBC.

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Amen. Our news media have been so biased [to the left] for so long that most Americans hadn't realized they were biased. You were born unto a bias. Your parents were born unto it. It didn't seem biased to most anyone. It was what it was. You naturally assumed it had ever been thus. Like you once assumed that people had forever done their shitting indoors.

Go back far enough and you'll find multiple newspapers in every substantial city, all of which were obviously biased, many of which openly referred to themselves as "Chicago's First Republican Newspaper" or "Boston's Finest Workers' News Source", etc. In the old days you chose and bought the paper you wanted to read, the one that reflected your politics, the one that fondled your fancy. Somehow or another the left prevailed. They snagged up ABC, NBC, and CBS. By the time America was getting most of its news from TV-- and using newspapers to line the birdcage-- the left had us where it wanted us. And few were the wiser.

In fact, about the only dudes who were screaming "Media Bias" in say 1960 were the crazy old coots tagged "nazi sympathizers" and "jingoes" and "grumps". The "haters" of their day. It being ABC, NBC, and CBS who were doing the tagging.