From WNC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone and on this

week's show we take a trip back in time to when Fox News was just finding its feet

as a conservative outlet.

As they passed each other, Kennedy made a prediction about the presidential race.

I think our guys got this.

I had a physical reaction.

My head snapped back, and I thought I thought our guy who's our guy

Fox News now projects George W Bush the winner in Florida and thus it appears the winner of

the presidency of the United States I watch Fox all night and I think it was misinformation for us to be told things and

it turns out that your analysts there was the cousin of George Bush.

I would tell people, they'd ask, what do you do? I work for Fox News.

They said, oh man Fox, I love Fox. That's all I watch. And I would say to them,

don't do that to your brain. It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Lohanger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Early on in the history of this show, I'm talking a couple of decades now we realize that we probably could

dedicate every episode to a Fox News outrage Roger Ailes fair and balanced network

who is constantly pushing the boundaries of what was then

acceptable for a news organization and changing the nature of our political discourse in the

process. But given all we needed to cover made sense just to check back in

when Fox did something too appalling to ignore, even as we became more and more

inured to the Fox News way.

The Fox News channel has been on the air for almost three decades now,

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