As Bush is increasingly recognized as a lame duck, perpetually wrong, increasingly irrelevant president, so is his propaganda outlet, FOX. From James Poniewozik at TIME:

[FOX] has to figure out how not to seem like yesterday's news. At times recently, the network has appeared uncertain about its focus. Its primary-night coverage has felt staid and listless. Sometimes it has gone tabloid with celebrity-news, true-crime and scandal stories (WEBSITES POSTING SEXY PICS LIFTED FROM FACEBOOK). At other times it has retreated into a kind of war-on-terrorism news-talgia, playing up threatening chatter and new missives from al-Qaeda leaders while its rivals are doing the election 24/7; flipping to Fox can feel like time-traveling to 2002.

And this week, the New York Times reported that CNN finally edged past FOX for an entire quarter of the year:

The political season continues to be very good to CNN, which will officially announce on Tuesday that for the first time since 2001, it managed to beat the Fox News Channel in prime time for one quarter of the year in the category of news viewers most desirable to advertisers, according to Nielsen. Thanks to its debate coverage and heavy focus on the presidential primaries, CNN’s ratings in prime time for viewers 25 to 54 were up 90 percent, to an average of 453,000 for the first quarter of 2008. That was enough to edge past the perennial leader, Fox, which had 438,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year.

While this is a slim victory for CNN, it's important to note that CNN beating FOX for an entire quarter would have been unthinkable even two years ago. And while it’s obviously too soon to celebrate the end of FOX, it’s clear that the channel is going through an identity crisis.