Fox Primary: Complicated, contractual

While reading about the four republican candidates who are considering running for president, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee I found it interesting that they all have a contact with Fox News. In my own research fox news is said to be the number one watched news channel and news source in America. At first while reading that the contact that these four candidates have with Fox news that they can only be watched through Fox and no other media channel got me thinking, "Wow, Fox News really knows how to run a news channel." In many ways having information reported about these candidates only through Fox news is wrong because the public who watch other news channels will not be able to get information from these four candidates. On the other hand Fox news is getting great benefits and channel ratings because of its contracts. When I read about C-Span and its editor Steve Scully trying to get an interview with Sarah Palin and how Fox simply refused that idea made me think of Fox as a selfish news channel in some way. In conclusion, I agreed that while having candidates with Fox contracts the GOP will suffer in the general election because these four candidates are avoiding to speak to the other three big news networks.