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[StevieM]

1. You can argue that the Telecommunications Act was a mistake. But with or without it Fox News

was always going to happen.

There is a market demand. Conservatives want their own network, along with their own radio shows, to constantly remind them that they are right and that they are the real Americans. They want a network to tell them the lies that they desperately want to hear.

They want to live in an echo chamber. When their echos are contradicted by the facts they get angry. They get even more hateful than they already are. So they once again return to their echo chamber.

The market demand was always going to be there. Fox News happened for two reasons. First, by 1996 the number of Americans with cable or satellite was much higher, and even stretched into rural areas. Second, and more importantly, it was a few years after they lost power for the first time after the Reagan Revolution. At that point the right-wingers were looking for constant reassurance that they were indeed the real Americans.