Not surprisingly, Glenn Reynolds has a sensible take on the success of Fox News, and what that means for Democrats.

In other words, instead of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at work, we are seeing the market, now freed from anticompetitive constraints, serving a large group of customers who were dissatisfied with earlier offerings and who now have some options. Not surprisingly, those who benefited from the old system aren't happy with the results.

Democrats may be tempted to quibble with the phrase "benefited from" -- after all, they did lose five out of six presidential elections between 1968 and 1988, a period when traditional network news was still the only meaningful game in town -- but the point Reynolds makes here is an important one for Democrats to understand and accept: Fox News exists for sound economic reasons, and it's not going anywhere. Quit complaining, and get to work developing a strategy to deal with it.
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