Fox was really doing a decent job in covering the tea parties, border issues, grassroots concerns, etc.,... right up until right after the 2010 midterms. Then something happened. It dropped all that like a hot rock. It became entirely beltway-centric, and nothing much more than a mouthpiece for the GOP-Establishment crowd. “Karl Rove Central.” No more tea party acknowledgement. The treatment of Palin turned sour (didn’t air her key speeches while CNN and MSNBC did; spotlighted only the most negative polls, etc). It was all a very, very noticeable change.
I stopped watching at that point. Used to have FoxNews on all the time, like it were the default position on my tv-set. Nowadays, I might catch 30-minutes of it per month, at most.
I agree. Though Fox has been drifting left, there was a marked change at the 2010 midterms.
You've nailed it. Same as you, I catch maybe 30 minutes of Fox a month. I just don't pay any attention to it anymore.
They may be the lesser of the MSM evils in terms of covering "both sides," but the thing I hate the most is that since 2010 they now unfailingly represent the "right" with GOPe types like those detestable elitist jerks Bill Kristol and Karl Rove. If these guys represent the "right" in America, then I'm a money's uncle. I can't stand these GOPe types, and their perennial love for GOPe losers like John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Mittens.
But this being said, IMHO Fox has very poor actual "news" coverage. Seems like they're all US politics all the time, with little in the way of actual news reporting anymore, particularly at the international level. Sad to say, whenever something actually newsworthy happens in the world that doesn't have overt political overtones, CNN has far better coverage than Fox does.