Fox News took a shift toward more alarmism and a bolder, "holy shit things are happening!" look after 9/11[0]. My recollection is that it had another major shif

Fox News took a shift toward more alarmism and a bolder, "holy shit things are happening!" look after 9/11[0]. My recollection is that it had another major shift—independent of other media, this time, which shared some of Fox News' alarmism after 9/11—around the time Obama's Presidential candidacy started, moving farther into entertaining and promoting fringe ideas (like the birth certificate thing), and kept going down that road afterward. [0] A little while back I was at my parents' house and they had Fox News on in the background (of course) and I noticed that this has now gone so far that everything at the bottom runs with a big "FOX NEWS ALERT" tag and all the trappings that come with some kind of urgent announcement—for every little mundane thing, no exceptions.