Actually, Fox News represents a major sea change in news broadcasting, which is starting to affect all other media as well, because of its popularity. The news used to be more or less "neutral," with just the facts presented. (At least, we thought it was neutral -- it was actually presenting the mainstream pov.) Now nearly all media outlets slant the news according to their political perspectives, which is too bad. I tend to look up the same story from all sorts of different outlets, including foreign ones, in order to get -- ready? -- a "fair and balanced" perspective, as much as possible.
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