“Fox News: King of the Cable News Networks – consistently ranked #1 for over a decade. Why is it so loved by so many and so hated by so many others??" Fox News has been given numerous different titles and nicknames throughout its existence since its debut in 1996. Fox News has been, according to its statement mission, providing the public with 24-hour political, sports, business, national, world, local and breaking news through a variety of different mediums (Fox News Channel Press For most people, Fox News is the choice preferred as a news provider, however, a large selection of people believe it to be completely biased and untruthful. This contradicts its widely known and published slogan “fair and unbalanced”. So why exactly is Fox News preferred by so many people, but at the same time it is hated by so many others? What makes this #1 news station so terrible? Fox News is constantly bombarded with accusations of media bias, plus there have been numerous different cases that question Fox's validity? News (Groeling). These cases occur during regular news broadcasts. Some of the most recent, and grossly biased, broadcasts were about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Fox News Channel has historically been known to lean heavily to the right, or Republican spectrum. President Barrack Obama's political party is widely known to the public as Democratic. Statistically, according to studies, to date over 17 million households receive some form of the Fox News channel (Auletta). The Fox News channel is published through a number of different channels for its viewers. These channels include: television, radio, newspapers, the Internet and more, increasingly electronic… print media… which, as a result, keeps these people with Fox News instead of using other news sources. Because so many people over the age of 65 watch Fox News consistently, during retirement, Fox News' ratings and reception remain remarkably high. Instead, several types of viewers dislike Fox News due to its political biases, which consequently give it negative ratings. With every great successful materialistic object or figure in society there are its pros and cons. For Fox News Channel, these pros and cons include overall ratings and viewership. For over a number of years Fox News has remained at the top of the ratings ladder in first place, providing the public with news. People claim it is biased and rightly unfair, however, it is that very news they produce that has made it famous and one of the most respected news networks to date..