Abstract
Take a quick scan of satirical coverage of the mainstream news and it won’t be long before you’ll see the Fox News Channel as the butt of the joke. From Stephen Colbert’s Twitter hashtags poking fun at Fox News to Jon Stewart’s media appearances with Fox News figures like Chris Wallace and Bill O’Reilly, there seems to be an ongoing connection between the news channel and satirical comedians. Unquestionably Fox News is more often the center of satire fun than CNN or MSNBC. Is Fox News just being unfairly picked on by satirists or is there more to the link between Fox News and today’s satire? Well, to trope on Fox News’s own tagline, we’ll report; you decide. One thing is clear though: in order to fully understand how satire is shaping news today, we have to start by telling you the story of Fox News. Without Fox News (and friends) it is unlikely that satire would be playing such a major role in shaping the way that the public perceives news. In many ways it has been the presence of Fox News that has provided the backdrop for much of our satirical alternatives. As we will explain in detail in this chapter, there are a number of shifts that have taken place across all forms of news media that have changed the way that we receive information about the world, but Fox News deserves special attention.
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