• The Associated Press, Monday, August 17, 2009 10:11 PM

Fox News is a hero to many people who are not buying the Age of Obama. The network was already on pace for its best ratings year even before the health care debate sent viewership jumping during a traditionally slow month for news.

Fox's viewership is up 11% over last year, per Nielsen. CNN and MSNBC, which benefited from interest in the campaign last year, are down. Leading the way for Fox are Bill O'Reilly, who already had cable news' most popular show, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

In a June survey, roughly three times as many Republicans said that they regularly get news from Fox, as opposed to CNN or MSNBC, reports the Pew Research Center. The three networks had about the same number of Independent followers, and Fox had more Democratic followers than CNN and MSNBC had GOP fans.

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