All but Washington times and Fox news is to the left of the average US voter. And all but the WSJ is to the right of the average democrat. And all are to the left of the average republican.

Assuming these are accurate, it helps to understand why both the left and the right talk about news bias. From their perspective, both are right. Of course for the right, it is even more true as the tilt in percentages and in number of sources is definitely to the left.

No posit that there really is a shift when Fox news becomes available. Note that Fox news is slightly more liberal than Susan Collins. If one news source can have that much impact, then what would the impact be from all the other left leaning news sources? Also note that on this 0 to 100 scale, Fox is about 10% to the right of the average US voter '95-'99. Only three news sources are inside of that 10% range on the left. 15 news sources are at a greater distance from the average US voter, most around a 15 point difference, but up to a 35 point difference.

The MSM wasn't woofing when they said that their being in the tank for the democrats meant a 5 to 15 point swing towards the democrats.

Fox has staked out the classic marketing location. 40% of the people are going to think there a little liberal, but better than all the rest. So they get to draw from 40% of the population vs the others (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS) looking a lot alike and splitting the other 60%.

I don't know which is funnier. That Fox is to the left of Collins or that CBS is to the right of Kennedy.