The boldest innovator, however, has been Fox News. Since President Obama’s election, the cable news channel has dropped all but the barest pretense of objectivity. Billing itself as “fair and balanced,” Fox has turned itself into what White House communications director Anita Dunn recently called “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.”

Actually, that’s an extremely polite way of putting it. It’s closer to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth.” Fox openly promotes “Tea Parties” and other political demonstrations; it portrays every perceived White House defeat, such as Chicago’s failure to secure the 2016 Olympic Games, as a victory for something called “Fox Nation.”

“Doublethink,” Orwell called it: the ability to “hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.” So it is with “Fox Nation” and “fair and balanced.”

i never watch fox anymore. i want to watch the news, not bunch of people sitting there arguing with each other. It's more like the national enquirer of news channels to me.

Our cable service changed Faux News for BBC World. A vast improvement.

You're lucky. There's no objective journalism in the US anymore, except PBS News and Radio Free Air. It's sad when you have to watch the news agencies of a completely different nation just to get honest news about your own nation. 24 Hour Cable News is nothing but a disease.