Theyve grown tremendously, but not by stealing away viewers. Theyve increased the size of the pie. Thats amazing.
CNN and the others don't see it that way. To them, FNC has stolen their audience away. By giving people an alternative to news with a heavy left-wing politicization slant, FNC keeps the others from hearding everyone down the MSM cattle chute. This infuriates them, and if they could they's outlaw FNC and shut it down.
Many forget that earlier in the decade many people had to demand that their cable companies carry FNC. I’ve heard of no such call for MSNBC even though a few cable operators don’t carry it. CNN is on all of them, most from it’s start so they never had that problem. Would be an interesting experiment if every cable company dropped CNN and they had to build back up. Some would come back but you wouldn’t see CNN everywhere like you used to do.