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| | The '''Fox News Channel''' is a [[United States]] [[cable]] and [[satellite]] [[news]] channel for an elderly audience which promotes [[feminism]] and the [[homosexual agenda]],<ref>[http://americansfortruth.com/2013/08/16/americas-survival-special-report-documents-fox-news-growing-pro-homosexual-bias/ Documentation of intense pro-[[homosexual]] bias at the Fox News Channel]</ref> as managed by the [[globalist]] Murdoch family.<ref name="AiM2017">Kincaid, Cliff (April 28, 2017). [http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-left-wing-takeover-of-fox-news/ The Left-Wing Takeover of Fox News]. ''Accuracy in Media''. Retrieved October 27, 2017.</ref> It is a channel that merely regurgitates news originally reported by other sources, with almost no original reporting of its own. It is influenced by [[dark money]] and promotes [[liberal]] [[Republicans]] rather than [[conservative]] ones, such as the late [[John McCain]] and [[Lindsey Graham]]. Some conservatives, including President [[Trump]], have noticed that it is shifting increasingly left-wing.<ref>Nolte, John (November 19, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/19/did-fox-news-cost-gop-orange-county/ Did Fox News Cost the GOP Orange County?] ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 19, 2018.</ref> | | The '''Fox News Channel''' is a [[United States]] [[cable]] and [[satellite]] [[news]] channel for an elderly audience which promotes [[feminism]] and the [[homosexual agenda]],<ref>[http://americansfortruth.com/2013/08/16/americas-survival-special-report-documents-fox-news-growing-pro-homosexual-bias/ Documentation of intense pro-[[homosexual]] bias at the Fox News Channel]</ref> as managed by the [[globalist]] Murdoch family.<ref name="AiM2017">Kincaid, Cliff (April 28, 2017). [http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-left-wing-takeover-of-fox-news/ The Left-Wing Takeover of Fox News]. ''Accuracy in Media''. Retrieved October 27, 2017.</ref> It is a channel that merely regurgitates news originally reported by other sources, with almost no original reporting of its own. It is influenced by [[dark money]] and promotes [[liberal]] [[Republicans]] rather than [[conservative]] ones, such as the late [[John McCain]] and [[Lindsey Graham]]. Some conservatives, including President [[Trump]], have noticed that it is shifting increasingly left-wing.<ref>Nolte, John (November 19, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/19/did-fox-news-cost-gop-orange-county/ Did Fox News Cost the GOP Orange County?] ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 19, 2018.</ref> |
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| − | Like all cable networks, the audience of the Fox News Channel is small compared with the internet. Not quite 2.4 million viewers -- mostly elderly -- watch the Fox News Channel during its peak times.<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cable-channels-ranked-2018-viewers-fox-news/</ref> Fox News Channel heavily promotes [[RINO Backers|RINO Backing]]—commentators who may appear to be [[conservative]] but side with [[RINO]]s just when it matters most. In the first major [[2016 presidential debate]], [[feminist]] [[Megyn Kelly]] of Fox News ambushed [[Donald Trump]] with irrelevant, out-of-context quotations to make it appear that he was somehow anti-women. Additional examples on Fox News include [[Bill O'Reilly]], [[Sean Hannity]], [[Karl Rove]], and [[Rush Limbaugh]], who viciously savaged [[Todd Akin]] for making a [[pro-life]] statement that pregnancy from rape is rare. The Fox News Channel gave [[Karl Rove]] a platform to raise money against [[pro-life]] Republican candidates, and has repeatedly featured liberal Republicans to help them against conservative rivals in Republican primaries. | + | Like all cable networks, the audience of the Fox News Channel is small compared with the internet. Not quite 2.4 million viewers—mostly elderly—watch the Fox News Channel during its peak times.<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cable-channels-ranked-2018-viewers-fox-news/</ref> Fox News Channel heavily promotes [[RINO Backers|RINO Backing]]—commentators who may appear to be [[conservative]] but side with [[RINO]]s just when it matters most. In the first major [[2016 presidential debate]], [[feminist]] [[Megyn Kelly]] of Fox News ambushed [[Donald Trump]] with irrelevant, out-of-context quotations to make it appear that he was somehow anti-women. Additional examples on Fox News include [[Bill O'Reilly]], [[Sean Hannity]], [[Karl Rove]], and [[Rush Limbaugh]], who viciously savaged [[Todd Akin]] for making a [[pro-life]] statement that pregnancy from rape is rare. The Fox News Channel gave [[Karl Rove]] a platform to raise money against [[pro-life]] Republican candidates, and has repeatedly featured liberal Republicans to help them against conservative rivals in Republican primaries. |
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| | Even pundit [[Sarah Palin]] is too [[conservative]] for Fox News Channel, as when it canceled some of her interviews at a key political moment in August 2012,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/sarah-palin-fox-cancelled-my-interviews-133729.html|title=Sarah Palin: 'Fox canceled my interviews'|date=August 29, 2012|first=Dylan|last=Byers|work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> and then refused to renew her contract at the end of 2012. Fox negotiated a new contract five months later but generally pushed her off the air.<ref name=politico>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/sarah-palin-fox-news-contributor-92747.html|title=Sarah Palin rejoins Fox News|date=June 13, 2013|first=Mackensie|last=Weinger|work=[[Politico]]|accessdate=July 18, 2014}}</ref> | | Even pundit [[Sarah Palin]] is too [[conservative]] for Fox News Channel, as when it canceled some of her interviews at a key political moment in August 2012,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/sarah-palin-fox-cancelled-my-interviews-133729.html|title=Sarah Palin: 'Fox canceled my interviews'|date=August 29, 2012|first=Dylan|last=Byers|work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> and then refused to renew her contract at the end of 2012. Fox negotiated a new contract five months later but generally pushed her off the air.<ref name=politico>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/sarah-palin-fox-news-contributor-92747.html|title=Sarah Palin rejoins Fox News|date=June 13, 2013|first=Mackensie|last=Weinger|work=[[Politico]]|accessdate=July 18, 2014}}</ref> |
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| | Fox News has dominated the ratings of other cable news outlets.<ref name=anderson>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-anderson4oct04,0,2195035.story?coll=la-opinion-center|title=Fox News: Enraging Liberals for 10 Years|date=October 4, 2006|first=Brian C.|last=Anderson|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Launched by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and former political consultant Roger Ailes as a refuge for viewers fed up with real or perceived [[liberal bias]] everywhere in the so-called "[[mainstream media]]", Fox is the undisputed ratings champion of cable news. It's been trouncing [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]] and [[CNBC]] for years, and draws a much larger audience share than all competitors, including the three major broadcast news shows, combined. It is by far the most profitable news network in the world, on track to earn more than $700 Million in 2010.<ref name=10ailes>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html?_r=0|title=A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics|date=January 9, 2010|first1=David|last1=Carr|first2=Tim|last2=Arango|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> But the profit motive may cause some of the hostility Fox News has to the [[conservative]] positions on important social issues. | | Fox News has dominated the ratings of other cable news outlets.<ref name=anderson>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-anderson4oct04,0,2195035.story?coll=la-opinion-center|title=Fox News: Enraging Liberals for 10 Years|date=October 4, 2006|first=Brian C.|last=Anderson|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Launched by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and former political consultant Roger Ailes as a refuge for viewers fed up with real or perceived [[liberal bias]] everywhere in the so-called "[[mainstream media]]", Fox is the undisputed ratings champion of cable news. It's been trouncing [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]] and [[CNBC]] for years, and draws a much larger audience share than all competitors, including the three major broadcast news shows, combined. It is by far the most profitable news network in the world, on track to earn more than $700 Million in 2010.<ref name=10ailes>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html?_r=0|title=A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics|date=January 9, 2010|first1=David|last1=Carr|first2=Tim|last2=Arango|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> But the profit motive may cause some of the hostility Fox News has to the [[conservative]] positions on important social issues. |
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| − | Indeed, for over 100 consecutive months, FNC has been the most-watched cable news channel in the country. FNC is available in more than 90 million homes. It is part of the Fox Television Stations Group, a subsidiary of [[Australia]]n-born media mogul [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s [[News Corporation]]. [[Roger Ailes]] was named Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group on August 15, 2005. Ailes resigned on July 21, 2016, following a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment of female employees. Rupert Murdoch is his interim replacement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-ailes-resigns_us_57912e0ee4b0fc06ec5c4c8a|title=Roger Ailes Steps Down As Fox News CEO After Widespread Accusations Of Sexual Harassment|date=July 21,2016|accessdate=July 21, 2016}}</ref> Despite its strong ratings dominance in the United States, Fox News did not perform well in the [[United Kingdom]], causing its parent company to stop broadcasting it in the country in 2017 in order to focus on its U.S. market.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/29/guardian-sky-stop-broadcasting-fox-news-uk/ Guardian: Sky to Stop Broadcasting Fox News in UK]. ''Breitbart News''. August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.</ref><ref>Concha, Joe (August 29, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/348409-fox-news-no-longer-airing-in-the-uk Fox News no longer airing in the UK]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved August 29, 2017.</ref> | + | Indeed, for over 100 consecutive months, FNC has been the most-watched cable news channel in the country. FNC is available in more than 90 million homes. It is part of the Fox Television Stations Group, a subsidiary of [[Australia]]n-born media mogul [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s [[News Corporation]]. [[Roger Ailes]] was named Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group on August 15, 2005. Ailes resigned on July 21, 2016, following a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment of female employees. Rupert Murdoch is his interim replacement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-ailes-resigns_us_57912e0ee4b0fc06ec5c4c8a|title=Roger Ailes Steps Down As Fox News CEO After Widespread Accusations Of Sexual Harassment|date=July 21, 2016|accessdate=July 21, 2016}}</ref> Despite its strong ratings dominance in the United States, Fox News did not perform well in the [[United Kingdom]], causing its parent company to stop broadcasting it in the country in 2017 in order to focus on its U.S. market.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/29/guardian-sky-stop-broadcasting-fox-news-uk/ Guardian: Sky to Stop Broadcasting Fox News in UK]. ''Breitbart News''. August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.</ref><ref>Concha, Joe (August 29, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/348409-fox-news-no-longer-airing-in-the-uk Fox News no longer airing in the UK]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved August 29, 2017.</ref> |
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