Posted on 09/26/2015 4:23:12 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Majority of Fox News commentators and guests seem to prefer anybody but Donald Trump. If this type of bias continues, it remains to be seen if conservatives, the backbone of their audience, will remain loyal to the network. Stay tuned
Ever since it was launched in 1996, Fox News has enjoyed an ever growing television audience. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh often promoted Fox News in the early years of the network, helping to establish the connection with conservatives across the country. In fact, thanks to Rush and others on talk radio, Fox News enjoyed tremendous ratings growth over the last 19 years.
Today, Fox News is the unquestioned ratings champion among cable news channels. One other factor determining ratings success has been the unpopularity of the left wing content being delivered by competitors such as CNN and MSNBC. Viewers interested in fair and balanced news coverage, as opposed to liberal indoctrination, have flocked to Fox News.
The problem is that Fox News, while not a liberal network, is unfriendly to true conservatives. For example, most Fox News hosts are either moderate or downright liberal. Their mid-day host, Shepard Smith, is clearly liberal on a wide variety of issues and just this week was insulting conservatives who have been critical of Pope Francis.
Shep Smith is a LIBERAL GAY! I have NEVER heard anyone say they like him.....who is his audience?
Fox News is all in for The Cheap Labor Express
OAN is the one to see now.
OAN for me too. FOX news hosts are traitors.
Trump is not a conservative.
Neither is Fox news, now known as the Jeb Bush Show.
The #uniparty meme is not a myth. The whole system is completely rigged. The only way to know that is REALLY going on is via the internet.
I have not had TV since 1997. Whenever I AM exposed to FOX, I don’t understand why people think it is conservative. It’s more conservative than CNN, but that is just to give us a “choice”. It’s like being a kid and wanting to go to bed at nine, but your mean ol’ mom says 7. Fortunately, DAD is on your side - because he says 7:05.
That is not a choice. It’s a false choice. It’s fake. People are being played. The correct bed time is 9. And there are plenty of sites on the internet that not only say that but effectively say why.
NewsCorp execs endorsed John Kerry in 2004.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1185129/posts?
News Corp. President Endorses Kerry
Broadcasting & Cable ^ | 8.4.04 | John Eggerton
“According to the Kerry for President campaign, News Corp. President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. News Corp. owns Fox News Channel.”
“...Chernin’s fondness for Kerry is no secret. He held a fund-raiser for Kerry on the Fox studio lot earlier in the year.”
I remember how Shep gratuitously blamed GW Bush while he was reporting on Katrina in New Orleans. It is like he really believed the propaganda he was spewing.
‘...it remains to be seen if conservatives, the backbone of their audience, will remain loyal to the network’
Conservatives are not loyal to any commercial enterprise. Commercial enterprises can be loyal to conservatives, but once they disrupt that loyalty, it is up to them to find another group to sell to, conservatives will find what they need elsewhere. It’s that cold
If a politician turns its loyalty away from the conservative base, he no longer serves conservatives, not the other way around
Fox will figure out they can’t brainwash conservatives. Brainwash ability is the opposite of conservative thought
Liberals will continue to believe that conservative are just like them, just a mirror image. But they are not. Once political ideology creeps in conservatives move on if they can
If conservatives would do this in regard to public schools, whenever remotely possible, it would do a lot for the future of the country but that’s a different subject
They try to completely avoid talking about Ted Cruz unless they absolutely have to. If they do talk about him, they are trying to bash and disparage.
Murdoch’s X wife Wendy is a close friend of Ivanka. The Trumps refused to take sides when Murdoch decided to discard her. He is trying to punish the father of his X wife’s confidant. Makes one wonder what the Trumps have on him
William F Buckley said something like, support the most conservative
Of the people who can get elected, who is more conservative?
How would Trump prevent anyone from living a conservative lifestyle?
Yeah, and I am so angry at all the traitors - political, media, etc.
That’s the problem today...
I used to listen to Fox all day long, but I haven’t in 2 years, and I don’t miss it a bit...
I have OAN on my computer, turn up the volumn and listen as I’m doing what ever I’m doing that day...I love OAN, it really is a news channel...and they report the news, not what they think the news is...
I don’t want Trump going back to Fox, I want to show the msm, talking heads and others,to realize that WE have a choice of what WE are going to listen to...there are a lot of us that are now listening to other programs, and that’s the way it should be, WE get to choose what WE want to hear, not someone else’s opinion of what they want US to hear...I can do that in Church or at the Senior Center or in the supermarket...or my neighbors, whom by the way are turning for Trump....(Hatch decided that Bush was who Utah was going to vote for, ahem) ....
Well... Donald Trump might actually fix things that are wrong, so we conservatives would have to find something else to complain about?
Naked News does a better job of straight reporting. Turn up the sound and minimize the window...
“Trump is not a conservative.”
You’ve met him? Spent time with him recently? Part of his inner circle?
What else is in Trump’s heart?
A lot of people HAVE morphed conservatism into Complain ism
It could be part of Fox’s meltdown, if that’s what we’re calling it. They should take a lesson from Rush. He does well regardless of who is in the White House
They had better get comfortable with being winners because not only is that where this is headed, it is part of the founding principals of the country. It’s easy
Adjust, people.
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