The fallout from President Donald Trump’s Big Lie initially hit Fox News hard. The Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster was one of the first major outlets to call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night in 2020, enraging the president. He set out to trash the right-wing network as far and wide as possible. “Once you do something like that, you’re done in our book,” Jenny Brethen, a loyal Fox News viewer of 20 years who switched to Newsmax the day after the election, told the Washington Post at the time. “We’re permanently switched.” Brethen said that she and her husband exclusively consumed Fox’s conservative cable news competitor “from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed.”

She was one of 15 former Fox News viewers the Post interviewed as part of what they labeled a “dramatic upt

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