Talk:History of Fox News

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Graph

How about a graph depicting Fox News' ratings since inception? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.236.191.219 (talk) 22:59, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

bias

as much truth as there is behind Fox's conservative bias, the last paragraph about Bush's first term sounds like something from a liberal extremist blog, not a balanced encyclopedia article. --Kitty 20:13, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Blatant Propaganda

The below paragraph is blatant propaganda. Also, much of the section is addressing events outside of the stated years of 2001 to 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fox_News#Through_first_term_of_George_W._Bush_(2001%E2%80%932004)

"However, in the 2016+ era of television broadcasting, Fox News is evermore on the sidelines. Due to racist comments by the Fox News executives, and reporters blatant stupidity and false-superiority, Fox News has seen dropping ratings. As of 2018, their newest stunt was buddying up with the president, however, this has only caused a mis-information loop where Fox News will say something outrageous (as it must do to create headlines and gain viewers) and Donald Trump will repeat it. Then Mr. Trump will point to Fox News to prove himself right while Fox News points to Donald Trump. Thusly, most of what Donald Trump and Fox News claim to be true is actually fake news."

RGlenB (talk) 16:27, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Sections

How come the article has so much content missing? FNC's history from 05 to the present seems to have been stripped away. Did somebody vandalize this page? AKA Casey Rollins Talk With Casey 18:16, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's just kind of a stub article. Someone added those sections in 2017 when the events happened because they were clearly important in the history of the channel, and nobody has filled them in yet. —BlackTerror (talk) 19:05, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is so out of date that it references the O'reilly show without including the events that led to his cancellation. Playerpage (talk) 21:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lost millions of dollars every year for years trying to get started

"Brit Hume noted, in a 1999 interview with PBS: “This operation loses money. It doesn’t lose nearly as much as it did at first, and it’s — well, it’s hit all its projections in terms of, you know, turning a profit, but it’s — it will lose money now, and we expect for a couple more years. I think it’s losing about $80 million to $90 million a year.”"

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/26/tom-steyer-you-want-trump-out-buy-clear-channel_partner/ Fxm87 (talk) 14:33, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose for merge with Fox News

Both articles have overlapping topics, merger will improve the Fox News article with additional information. ItsMeaow (talk) 06:41, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose This article is 14,570 words, which suggests that split-outs are absolutely necessary. A history section with a summarized version in the main article is a perfectly normal WP:SIZESPLIT. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:34, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Most of what's in the History of Fox News can be cut and the rest merged over to Fox News. I think all of the Launch section can be deleted except for the 4th paragraph merged over. The first sentence of the 2000s section can be added to Ratings and reception on the Fox News article and the third paragraph also moved over somewhere. The third graph in the 2010s section should also be merged over. And then all 2020s and Programming sections can be deleted. Eric Schucht (talk) 15:18, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. If anything, this massive article should have a good portion moved over here. See also:

Section sizes in Fox News

Section size for Fox News (67 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	20,959	20,959
History	11,676	11,676
Political alignment	5,502	5,502
Outlets	964	12,278
Television	3,981	3,981
Radio	1,167	1,167
Online	3,748	3,748
Fox Nation	2,418	2,418
Ratings and reception	20,672	28,798
Demographics	4,305	4,305
Wikipedia consensus on reliability	3,821	3,821
Slogan	7,499	7,499
Content	12	171,785
Benghazi attack and aftermath	2,513	2,513
Uranium One	4,928	4,928
Pro-Republican and pro-Trump bias	62,484	62,484
Coverage of Russia investigation	18,890	18,890
False claims about other media	40	7,406
CNN's Jake Tapper	3,142	3,142
The New York Times	4,224	4,224
Climate change	13,691	13,691
Murder of Seth Rich conspiracy	15,185	15,185
Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville	3,446	3,446
Glenn Beck's comments about George Soros	4,871	4,871
COVID-19 pandemic	10,901	10,901
2020 election fraud allegations and lawsuits by Dominion and Smartmatic	21,316	21,316
Compulsory reductions in meat consumption	2,190	2,190
Report that Biden administration was building Trump wall	2,264	2,264
Crime reporting	1,688	1,688
Controversies	140	27,189
Sexual harassment	12,329	12,329
Obama administration conflict	7,847	7,847
Journalistic ethical standards	5,136	5,136
NYC Human Rights Law violations	781	781
Climate denial and misinformation	956	956
International transmission	707	14,366
Australia	1,814	1,814
Brazil	158	158
Canada	2,270	2,270
France	253	253
India	136	136
Indonesia	141	141
Ireland	83	83
Israel	983	983
Italy	144	144
Japan	830	830
Mexico	100	100
Netherlands	452	452
New Zealand	950	950
Pakistan	126	126
Philippines	347	347
Portugal	213	213
Scandinavia	316	316
Singapore	204	204
South Africa	641	641
Spain	662	662
Scandinavia	18	18
United Kingdom and Ireland	2,818	2,818
Notable personalities	27	10,089
Program hosts	807	807
Correspondents and substitute anchors	718	718
Regular guests and contributors	2,119	2,119
Former hosts and contributors	6,418	6,418
See also	437	437
References	28	28
Further reading	2,068	2,068
External links	1,343	1,343
Total	314,017	314,017

Biohistorian15 (talk) 20:14, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Sammi Brie. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:38, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose — There is much that can be said about the history of Fox News that is not mention in the split article. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 20:14, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]