TV news is still a profit-oriented enterprise, not a public service. The ultimate end goal is to attract eyeballs (and therefore advertisers), not to broadcast

TV news is still a profit-oriented enterprise, not a public service. The ultimate end goal is to attract eyeballs (and therefore advertisers), not to broadcast a specific point of view. Fox successfully and accurately identified an underserved market, and filled the void. Unfortunately, middle-of-the-road doesn't attract large audiences night after night. MSNBC has done exact same thing as Fox, just on the other end of the spectrum. CNN is an utter failure because it has no identity, its viewpoint is the same as MSNBC's but is inferior in just about every way.