Originally posted by Dorain
My best guess is most of the vitriol comes from the fact that they generally crush their rival's audience numbers combined.
At least it isn't conservatism funded at the point of a gun the way liberalism is through NPR and PBS.
I'd say you are spot on. Fox News, like basically every media outlet right now, exists mostly to make money. That makes everything they do pretty damn suspect. Also, the whole concept of 24 hour news has been a huge loss for our society, as it encourages shock journalism, making huge deals out of nothing (to create content), and watering real news down to 30 second quick shots.

But Fox News at least does give a voice to both sides. That's something we didn't have for about 20 years previous.

Too bad Fox News still sucks - like all current news outlets.