On The O’Reilly Factor Tuesday, O’Reilly and guest analyst Charles Krauthammer discussed the collapsed monopoly of the once all-powerful news networks, Krauhthammer declaring their resentment of Fox News stems from their understanding that they “no longer control the agenda” and O’Reilly underscoring that, in the end, it’s all about the loss of power.

Reacting to a disparaging comment by Tom Brokaw claiming O’Reilly would not make it as a news analyst, O’Reilly brought on Krauthammer to talk about the resentment of Fox News in those from the once powerful networks.

O’Reilly: Now for the top story tonight. What about the power aspect of TV news? Joining us from Washington, Charles Krauthammer, author of the big bestseller, Things that Matter. So, does this matter, Charles, this topic?

Krauthammer: Well, not as much as my book, but it still does matter. Look, I think what's happened is that the keepers of the networks who, for one generation, almost two, had a total monopoly on the news. You had only three choices, and they were essentially ideologically all the same. They don't like the fact that they no longer have a monopoly. I have been saying this for 10 years that the genius of Rupert Murdock and Roger Ailes in creating Fox News is to have discovered a niche audience in American broadcast news—namely half the country. Everybody knows that the network news all give it from the same perspective and what Fox News has offered is a new way to look at the news. And that's why it has been so unbelievably successful, and why there’s some resentment from the mainstream media, because they no longer control the agenda. ​

O’Reilly: But it's more than that. It's a power thing. When Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather were in the chair, okay? When they were the anchormen, they had all the power. No one had any power but them. And then once in a while there would be a commentator put on there, some place. A little time not much. Now there is no power at the network really. The anchormen are good and professional and all of that. They don't drive the national debate...