Cable news stations such as Fox News may have indeed (according to the left) began leaning more and more to the right. It is no secret that the left-right struggle of American politics have spilled into the media. Some left-leaning critics have described Fox News as having a right-leaning perspective in most of it’s news stories. Rupert Murdoch is the current chairman and acting CEO of Fox News.
Republican Party political strategist and NBC executive Roger Ailes left cable television channel America’s Talking (now MSNBC), Murdoch asked him to start Fox News Channel.įox News grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become a dominant cable news network in the United States. The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. Do you know that Fox News is one of the most watched news station in America? Ratings for Fox News since it’s beginnings in 1996 have grown dramatically and has (according to the current Nielsen Ratings) overtaken all other news networks including: CNN and MSNBC.įox News first launched on October 7, 1996.