The Democrats won the White House and Congress in 2008, but the cable news network they love to hate, Fox News, won the viewership trophy for the seventh consecutive year. And not by a photo finish: Fox News had an average of 2.1 million prime-time viewers, up 40 percent from 2007. By comparison, CNN averaged 1.3 million viewers in 2008 and MSNBC 920,000 viewers. The new year’s changes at Fox include the departure of token liberal Alan Colmes and the arrival of inexplicably popular conservative Glenn Beck.
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