ny nick,
In all fairness to other views, your observation that tv news broadcasts did not have strong political bias before Fox came along is extremely subjective and while a good personal argument for yourself is not very persuasive. I personally think that Fox is one of the least biased organizations but I also come from the perspective of hardly seeing CBS and like as non-biased in the 70′s and 80′s. “Conservatism” for decades has been on the outside looking in when it comes to MSM and what was presented as “straight” news during those times was simply unquestioned Leftism by the sheeple. You are right in that nothing like Fox existed beforehand….and now we see the reaction of the Left to “viewpoints” which beforehand the likes of Rather controlled.
Now, I agree that the attempt to go after advertisers is a legitimate form of expression in itself. There is no real comparrison between the individual attempts by a Fox personality or two and what those crazy Kos kids are up to now and even pretending this is a “modern-day”/new phenomenon is ignoring the use of such tactics in the past. Still, again, it beats the attempts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine which, btw, I’d wager would have the same support from the same people. When it comes to silencing a point of view I think once a person agrees with such a thing all barriers disappear to how it happens.
