Ben,
No, I don’t believe that the world was perfect before Foxs. Just that the world has changed forever after their success. 40 years ago, there were three networks, not the hundreds of choices we have now. News at these networks was considered a public service, not a profit center. All of that changed long before Fox arrived. Fox merely took advantage of the new rules and figured out it was easier and more profitable to play to an audience bias than trying to compete with CNN or the others. Fox signaled in not so subtle ways that this was a place that conservatives could come and get news they would like. That was a brilliant strategy. It worked beyond anyones expectations. That success will spawn something similar on the left be it Kos or something else down the line.
