If there’s any complaint against against Fox it’s an excess of glitz and cleavage at the expense of hard news. If Anna Nicole dies you know every night Fox will spend an inordinate amount of time with super hot info babes, with low cut bodices breathlessly giving us a minute to minute update - wait a second, I like that stuff. Never mind.
With one of the tabloidian stories earlier in the year, maybe even ANS, both FNC and CNN dropped the story to lesser prominence. pMSNBC stuck with it as the Number One story of the year, and gained in the ratings while the other two lost viewers.
While it's unfortunate, you can't really blame FNC and CNN for competing for the ad dollars brought in by the number of viewers.
I cut back my boob tube news in general, FNC in particular, for a number of reasons, illegal immigration, Shep, Geraldo, overly tabloid, etc.