When I was in college if you ever said anything even remotely in support of Conservative values or candidates you were almost always immediately accused of being someone who OnLy GeTs ThEiR iNfOrMaTiOn FrOm FoX nEwS! The people accusing you of this were unintentionally being hypocrites because they themselves were doing one-sided news harvesting from something like i dunno, ALL THE OTHER NEWS OUTLETS.
In college I actually rarely watched the news at all. This was a different time: Social Media didn't exist, irc or microsoft messenger were the only thing you could use as online messengers and since smartphones wouldn't exist for another decade or so, even those messengers were rarely used. If you wanted to watch news you had to watch a TV and wait for the show to be on. Since I was interested in getting done with my degree and partying, I wasn't going to devote any time to that nonsense.
Fox did in fact seem to be very one sided though even though they claimed to be the only network that was "fair and balanced." They were not balanced though and only a food would think that was the case. They were clearly heavily conservative leaning and any liberal pundits they had on the show were intentionally outnumbered and weak.
I never thought I would see the day that Fox decided to flip and honestly, I don't even know if they have because I do not watch any news and pay very little attention to the stuff that pops up in my newsfeed. I would rather have no idea what is going on in the world than have an intentionally misleading idea.
I do find it funny though that after all these years of being the exclusive conservative network that Fox is seeing a massive loss of their own fans. I think the firing of Tucker Carlson and the fact that Donald Trump no longer supports the network has a lot to do with this but these days the loss of Carlson has resulted in a dramatic switching off of Fox by most conservatives.
I don't subscribe to many newsfeeds and I will only really look at them if I have literally nothing else to do but there is one called Conservative Brief that is clearly biased that is now laughing at any setbacks on the part of Fox and presenting this as a huge win for conservatives.
I mean, I guess so. But what comes next? Are we supposed to turn to Conservative Brief or something like it that is clearly biased for how we get our news? Is that somehow better? I doubt it!
Headlines like these celebrating the arrest of an ex-Fox News correspondent are a regular occurrence on CB and it just kind of shows that there isn't really anywhere for conservatives to go for their news anymore. It doesn't matter that much to me because I don't really pay a great deal of attention to the news seeing as how all of them, or at least all of the ones that I have seen have an objective of brainwashing their followers and telling them what they want to hear, not necessarily what is actually going on.
I just find it amusing that something that has been a staple of Conservatives for as long as cable news has existed, ceases to be that in just one year. My liberal friends in college used to call it "Faux News" and there are probably similarly non-creative people around today that still do.