Like it or not, Fox a Success

In his syndicated column commemorating Fox Cable News’ 13th anniversary, Bill O’Reilly explains the channel’s success and Glenn Beck’s as well.

Fox News is a billion-dollar enterprise that dominates cable news ratings and is consistently in the top five of all cable programing. Simply put, Fox News Channel is on fire even after all these years…..

Fox News is not boring! This, I believe, is the biggest reason for our success. Like us or not, we move things along. We have lively people on the air. We take chances and do things differently.

In primetime especially, Americans do not want dull programming. Many news programs simply recite the day’s events. That will not cut it anymore. You have to give viewers something unique and entertaining. Fox News Channel does.

That makes our competitors and the ideologues running many of the nation’s newspapers furious.

They don’t like the traditionalism of Fox News, and they seethe at our success. Thus, on any given day, you can view scathing personal attacks against Fox News Channel anchors.

The hysteria over Beck is an example of why Fox News dominates. Here is a guy with an opinion. He has a television show. That’s it.

Beck freely admits he’s not a newsman in any sense. He’s just a guy who loves his country and wants to talk about it.

Apparently, that is driving the intelligentsia insane. They can’t stand a guy like Beck mouthing off.

But why? Last time I looked, Beck held an American passport. So he’s entitled to speak his mind. A big corporation is smart enough to pay him to do that, and millions watch.

Isn’t the USA a great country?

Here’s a link to the article.