re: #23 Honorary Yooper
Fox always was though. People tend to forget that, previous to September 11, 2001, Fox was always considered to be the tabloid network.
Fox tested the conspiracy market as early as January 2001, when their entertainment division ran the insane “documentary” Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?’. This kind of presentation, utterly unscrupulous and scandalously false, was almost without precedent for a major network.