Is Fox News shifting to the Left?

I don't care if they shift "left" or "right" -- please just stick to the facts and try to give a balanced sampling of opinions when the facts are in dispute.

If I moved into the apartment next door to mine, I'd be shifting closer to New York...but I'd still be 3,000 miles from it.

The article mentions Rove, Beck and Hannity. They are commentators, not news casters. Any time they open their mouths, I except a right leaning take. Just as when Carville or Combs opens his mouth I expect a left leaning take.

What I expect from the news is the facts, all the facts - not half truths, not the facts that support a political ideology while omitting facts that do not support that ideology. Problem is, almost all news is biased, one way or the other. That's why people need to look at both sides and make their own decisions.

ALL biased media reporting (is killing this country) if its designed to form your opinion ( then its called propaganda) if you dont know the difference (then you're a #$%$ being lead around by your nose)

I'd like to see how different things would be if ALL 24/7 "news" channels vanished for a while. That and all of the hate radio, the hate blogs, and all shameful media. We'd probably have far fewer ignorant, bigoted regressives who are brainwashed by all of these biased media sources. Turn off your TVs and think for yourselves!

What a bizarre sign of the times - there are actually people out there spouting conspiracy theories about why their news isn't biased ENOUGH.

This is simply because reality doesn't back up the statistics that everyone likes to quote from their favorite poll de jour. Just the other day I heard Rush Limbaugh suggest that "60% of Americans are self-admitted conservatives, but only 20% identified as liberals" - perhaps there's a giant gap in who is voting out of those numbers, because the national political scene (as suggested by who holds office) certainly doesn't align with that observation otherwise.

Members of both the extreme left and extreme right need to understand that they're the dwindling minority, and watching their years of deadlock and complete lack of progress has turned off the majority - a highly centrist, moderate population.

In light of that fact, Ailes moving the organization away from the fringe makes complete sense if they're to remain relevant.

Is this some kinda joke? No wait, more propaganda!

I hate biased news! Regardless of which side the bias sits. Give us the facts of an issue, talk to people on both sides and let us decide for ourselves if it's good or bad.

It's all about eyeballs and Fox is no different than any other network..the more people that watch, the more they can charge for advertising. Regardless of what you hear..most people in this country are somewhere in the middle politically.

I don't need Fox or CNN to tell me how to think. They can try but it won't work.

I stopped watching when they dumped Kent Brockman.

FOX basically has corned the "right" market & they make a pile of money, in fact they have monopolized this area. Do you really think they care about values or morals?

Fox couldn't have gone further Right, without falling off the world. Any shift had to be Left. I think the Fox policy change is more about market share demographics than political concerns. Ailes is apparently re-structuring Fox to provide more hard news and fewer opinion forums.

No.

Left out of the piece is the fact that Fox's total viewership was down 9% last year and down 15% among the coveted young adult (18-34) bracket. They already have the oldest average viewership of any cable news network, so their viewers are only getting older and older and any good businessman can tell you that will spell eventual doom for their business.

Ailes has them headed left to look for replacements and pick up some new viewers. I doubt it will help them much though as the young adult bracket spends most of their time getting their news and information on the internet.

News outlets are there to keep people at each others necks with distractions while we all take it up the backside.

With these nuts, anyone left of John Bolton is labeled as a Tree hugging loon.

FOX has shifted to the left? Only when judged by the standards of the most ultra far right, lunatic fringe. Unfortunately, the GOP has been hijacked by the Tea Party. The rhetoric that baggers love scares off the other 80% of the country. Good luck in the general!

Fox is shifting to what gets them better ratings. After Obama was elected, they felt they could get the largest audience from disgruntled people in the Right Wing (many who can't think for themselves). They told them about Obama's totalitarian plan to destroy America, denounced his policies, supported the GOP, brought Glenn Beck to fame etc. Now, its election year, the GOP has to 'walk the walk' and bring about an electable candidate and prove that he/she would do a better job than Obama. For all the rhetoric and screaming for the past four years, they haven't been able to come with very good candidates. Fox News realizes that 'whining time' is over, so they are shifting to the 'left'.