Maybe it was the other way around - Ailes had problems decades before he founded Fox News. Surely he had enablers along the way.
Its a cheerier version of events because it means Fox was pulling the audience deeper into the crazy zone rather than the audience pulling Fox. Which gives me hope that with enough house-cleaning fox might start pulling the audience out of the depths of crazy into the shallow waters of mere disillusionment.
Its a slim hope. But still…
