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You're underestimating the reach of Fox News by a couple orders of magnitude. I think you misinterpreted an instantaneous measurement as an annual number.

"Tucker Carlson Tonight" was averaging 3.2 million live viewers every single night. If the average viewer watched his show once per week, that's 15 million different households watching per week. Clips from the show also get watched on Youtube, social media, blogs, etc. And that's just one show.

Fox News is the defacto news source for the majority of Republican-voting Americans. They play a massive role in deciding which stories get coverage and how the narratives about those stories get defined.