USA Today's Peter Johnson offers an insightful take on Fox News' upcoming 10th anniversary. Front page, above the fold, even!
In the piece, Bill O'Reilly makes a great point about how anchors such as him have changed the news biz: "Politicians used to be able to come on TV and read a rehearsed answer, and Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley and those guys had to swallow it. They couldn't give them the O'Reilly arched eyebrow or tell them they were a pinhead."
Exactly. Viewers had always wanted a no-spin zone, but it took O'Reilly to finally give it to them, consistently. O'Reilly continues: "You now have a country that expects analysis on TV, where 10 years ago it only existed on the Sunday talk-show brainiac slot."
That's the reality of Fox News, and how it has changed the mediascape.
