> The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just buy the network and run them all day long." No, that's a misunde

> The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just buy the network and run them all day long." No, that's a misunderstanding. What Fox News cares about is growing and maintaining an audience because that's what profitable. In pursuit of that profit, Fox News will foster its community however it can. And so, driven by profit seeking, Fox News has embraced total nihilism. Fox News will spin any narrative, tell any lie, invent any fiction if it thinks it is what its audience wants to hear. The more Fox News offers its audience comforting fictions, no matter how untrue, the better for the bottom line. You don't have to believe me on that. It's what Fox News says of itself: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/08/tucker-carlson-phony-fox-00086126 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/08/tucker-car... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/fox-news-dominion-voting-lawsuit-2020-election-conspiracy/673111/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/fox-news-d...