The television editor of "The Hollywood Reporter" shares his insights into the rise of Fox News, illuminating the bold personalities and back-room deals that made Rupert Murdoch's media gamble pay off.
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The 1990s were a time of radical change in television. The broadcast networks - ABC, NBC, and CBS - lost their grip on viewers while cable stations like HBO emerged as hotbeds of creativity. And the news, long delivered by sober-faced anchors on The Big Three, was being radically changed by the all-news cable networks, first CNN, then MSNBC, and finally - and most radically - Fox News Channel.The bare knuckles triumph of right-leaning Fox News, which went from start-up to number one in five years, is one of the great business sagas of our time.In Crazy Like a Fox, television and media reporter Scott Collins reveals countless stories about the personalities that we allow into our homes every day and the executives who pull the strings behind the scenes.Scott Collins offers a glimpse of what the future holds for American journalism now that "Fair and Balanced" Fox rules the airwaves, and how much its success reflects a dramatic shift not only in American television, but in the way Americans get - and use - the news.
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