Happy 30th birthday to Fox News the network that changed the world

Fox News Channel is 30 years young today, and America — and the world — will never be the same.The 24-hour news platform founded by Rupert Murdoch clobbers its rivals in the ratings and helps set the daily agenda in corridors of power from City Hall to Washington, DC, to the Kremlin.Of course, Fox News’ contribution can hardly be measured only in audience size.It’s not merely the most influential conservative major televised news organization, but a vibrant, colorful and often controversial foil to the liberal and leftist voices that dominate broadcast and cable news.Fox News routinely scoops its competitors on subjects they prefer to ignore.

While the two major competing news networks, CNN and MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), were buying into the woke worldview of Democratic Party elected officials and even pandered to proponents of trans athletes on women’s sports teams, FNC took its brave, solitary path in exposing corruption in the Obama and Biden administrations.It routinely calls out the policies of blue-state mayors in Chicago and Portland who brought ruin to their cities strewn with homeless drug addicts and street criminals.Alone among televised media, Fox News Channel’s reporters and commentators shed doubt on the widely believed animal-spillover theory of COVID-19.They gave well-earned air time to Wuhan lab-leak proponents and stood their ground when assailed by The New York Times and the rest of the mediasphere.For sure, FNC stands vindicated now that scientists and even some competing media accept the pandemic likely began with a lab leak.Not only news coverage, but popular programs such as “The Five,” “Hannity” and “Gutfeld!” are must-views in homes, airport lounges and hotel lobbies from coast to coast.

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