Faux News is best summed up by this comment from AoSHQ. What’s sad is that even despite this, my (very late and overall anti-Boomer) Boomer dad can’t quit it.

“Fox News is a curious case. Their product is shit. It has always been shit. Even in context of the rest of our execrable cable news media, it’s of noticeably lower quality.

Their people are so low-grade, that I’m surprised they can finish complete sentences between Crossfit sessions and appointments with the hair stylist. It’s like the cable news version of Balls’ Models from Zoolander.

But they’ve been #1 for quite awhile, on the strength of precisely one strategy: being the only right-of-center news outlet in the United States.

Rupert Murdoch rightly perceived that he could serve up the very thinnest of gruel – a thoughtless, cheap, trashy product – and make a gazillion dollars by serving a yuuuuge and utterly ignored mass-market.

And they are knifing that golden goose right in the neck. It’s bewildering.”

Someone should do a study about how the children of successful people seemingly have to destroy the success of their forebears in order to not feel small. I forget where I read it, but supposedly it’s always the third-generation heir that runs the business into the ground.