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Fox Ratings Soar After Obama Tiff

Conservative station still trounces cable news competitors

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 27, 2009 12:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – Maybe Roger Ailes is on Barack Obama’s Christmas list. His administration sure seems to have given Fox News a gift anyway; in the two weeks since Anita Dunn publicly slammed the network, its ratings are up 9% overall, and 14% among the all-important 25-to-54... Read full story »

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