You don't think cable news networks are all about market share translating into money? Grow up.
And they make that bank by telling you the lies you want to hear, which you then use to attempt to discredit those who aren't lying to you as "the liberal media".
Or, as
Megyn Kelly puts it; "Pepper spray... it's a food product, essentially". Like waterboarding is hydration, essentially.
If you want to buy the soap that Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes sells, by all means do so. But don't fool yourself about the cost. The entertainment fiction that he provides makes you less informed than the person who used the time watching the Simpsons.