"My guess is that Fox News [3] guru Roger Ailes [4] has been reaching for the Tums more often than usual early in the New Year," comments Eric Boehlert. The right-wing network's rating are down compared to competitors such as CNN; its recently-launch Fox Business Network has ratings so low that they "are in danger of being surpassed by some large city public access channels"; its effort to promote Rudy Giuliani [5] for president collapsed; and Democratic candidates aren't bothering to participate in Fox-sponsored presidential debates. The network's problems, Boehlert says, stem from the same things that drove its previous popularity: "Fox News years ago made an obvious decision to appeal almost exclusively to Republican viewers. The good news then for Fox News was that it succeeded. The bad news now for Fox News is that it succeeded."