Posted on 11/12/2020 5:14:06 AM PST by conservative98
When Fox News came online in October 1997, it was an instant success. In short order it quickly overtook CNN, and later all the other cable news outlets that vied for a share of the cable news audience. Under the leadership of Roger Ailes, it crafted a slick team of reporters who reported the news that the others did not. It took several years of continued conservative news for its audience to be assured that they would not be betrayed by this news source. As they had been by all the others.
Then the betrayal came. On election night conservatives saw that they were being lied to by the formerly trusted news source.
The thing is, Fox’s betrayal of conservatives was not an overnight betrayal
It was happening before our very eyes and we refused to see it happening. I suspect that the hiring of Donna Brazile should have been the warning. She was so toxic that even CNN fired her for colluding with Hillary Clinton during her run for president. Yet Fox decided to hire her as a reporter on their staff.
Brazile was hired around the same time that Fox News changed its logo from “Fair and Balanced,” to who knows what it is now. It was another clue that they were no longer fair and balanced. Fox had shifted from a right-of-center newscast to a left-of-center.
Slowly their news coverage shifted ever more leftist until it was difficult to tell their newscast from that of the MSM.
Important news events were not being broadcast on their news shows. Some of those events were reported on their most popular opinion shows, like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Judge Jeanne, and of course, Tucker Carlson. In fact, these shows kept Fox News at the top of the ratings. There were days where Fox was on a par with the free broadcast networks due to the draw of this exciting opinion team.
As the countdown to this election closed, Fox received some of its highest-ever ratings. But the signs were all there for everyone to see that Fox had changed.
Fox News polls echoed those of the MSM.
Their polls were never close to accurate, always showing President Trump down by double digits, when more accurate polls showed he was either ahead or very close to Biden throughout the entire time. The wake-up came the day Newt Gingrich was on “Outnumbered” and he simply stated the fact that George Soros was financially backing radical left-wing prosecutors across the nation.
Gingrich was quickly shut down by almost everyone on the panel, and the host quickly went to commercial. That should have been the final straw for conservatives. Yet we held out hope. Then on November 3, they went full left-winged and announced Arizona was a Biden win, when in fact as of this writing that state is still being tabulated.
That announcement came while voters were still going to the polls.
Fox’s complicity in voter suppression That is a typical leftist tactic to suppress voters from casting their ballot for the Republican. It may have cost Trump the state and certainly didn’t ’t help Martha McSally in her bid for the Senate. Watching Bret Bair defend Fox News’ decision to prematurely call Arizona for Biden caused this viewer to switch station to OANN.
Bair became aggressive in his defense of the wrong call that night. Even if Biden does win the state, Fox had no reason to call it so early. Unbelievably, Fox was the leader in calling the state for Biden. Only to be followed by every other MSM outlet. It was that call that shifted the momentum on election night.
In comparison, NewsMax has yet to call the state of Arizona for Biden, and they do not see Biden as the president-elect as they still haven’t given Pennsylvania to him. While Biden may very well win both states, the early calls for them hurt Fox News’ standing with its loyal audience.
Anticipating the fall of Fox Last week, Lachlan Murdoch, CEO and executive chairman of the network, reminded investors that their ratings would fall off after the election, regardless of who won. However, the ratings drop that has occurred since election night cannot be attributed to an after-election slump.
Fox’s viewers are angry. They feel betrayed and the likelihood that Fox will ever again regain its status as a powerhouse in the cable news business is highly unlikely. In the future, Fox will lose a large majority of its most loyal viewers, and that loss will not be offset by new more liberal viewers.
Lawyer Sidney Powell: Democrats used Dominion machines to steal votes No one who watches CNN or MSMBC will now switch to Fox. In fact, what happened to the once darling of Fox News, Megyn Kelly, should be a harbinger of what the network can now expect. Some may remember that Kelly, at the height of her fame, decided that she wanted to go to the MSM, and began attacking candidate Donald Trump in 2016.
In fact, she proudly tried to bring the man down. This tactic allowed her to go to the MSM, getting a contract with the most radical left network, NBC. Once there her ratings were below anything she ever imagined. She envisioned that the left would herald her as a heroine because she betrayed her conservative base. Instead, they treated her like the pariah that she was.
Soon, after some far-left incident of political correctness, she lost her job. For three years she has been off the air and is an afterthought by almost everyone. This is the path that Fox News has chosen for itself. They have already lost huge numbers of their viewers, and many more will follow.
No one on the left will switch to Fox
Fox will go from cable news giant to a tiny shrimp in a large pool of sharks. Some of Fox’s star power will leave, causing even lower ratings. Watch for Tucker, Laura, Jeanne, and Sean to find new homes on those networks that will gain from Fox’s betrayal. They can be assured that their viewers will follow them wherever they go.
OANN and NewsMax seem likely places to find their conservative commentary in the not too distant future as Fox News revenues continue to decline. Each reader will make their own determination on what news they wish to watch; however, this writer has tuned into Fox for the last time.
Over the last couple years, Fox has hired some creepy people to report the news. They keep people like Wallace, who is biased and leans Democrat, on each Sunday. They hire Donna Brazille, who cheated giving answers to Clinton team during a debate.
Soros is the most well known of the leftists who are attempting to destroy this country, but many others exist......
They all need to be looked into.....
Sad to see that those folks on Fox News that were so trusted and nearly part of the family have proved to be nothing but media whores.
The Murdock Wives, with the Murdock Heirs testicles in their lock box, and Paul Ryan on the board have destroyed a once-trusted network.
I switched the channel from Fox to Newsmax by 10:00PM on election night and haven’t been back to Fox since. I’ve deleted its website from my computer and mobile devices, and I now send its prodigious number of “Fox News Alerts” emails to the junk folder. I anxiously await the headline that Fox News is dead.
What is Fox News?
Whatever...
The end of an era...
Moved on....
Have gone to Pluto TV.
Home of America’s Voice....
Will drop Hulu over the weekend.
R Budd Dwyer was the most shocking. But FOX was a close second.
Very clever on you part.
Stopped watching Fox years ago. Failure to report, failure to persue.
Two days ago, I deleted FOX from my Direct TV lineup and added Newsmax (channel 349, I believe it is)
I need to find an email address for FOX so I could tell them to go to hell.
Brazille and Harf were when I started turning off Fox. They would come on and I would switch too OAN. Then Shep, the Wallace, then Cavuto. Finally I just started to tune in to OAN and stopped switching channels. I changed as Fox changed.
I just saw MEgyn on NEWSMAX a couple nights ago. I think it was during the Greg Kelly show. She seemed like she was trying to be a reporter again. Although, we know she can not be trusted. I wonder if she has blown through the 27 million she got from NBC already? She probably is looking for work and can see what is happening to FOXNEWS.
Fox’s plummet in ratings must be a source of joy for all the other people at the MSM outlets. Keep in mind, all of these people work in about a four block radius in midtown Manhattan. They all know each other and probably frequent the same bars/restaurants.
This is truly one of the most baffling business decisions I’ve ever seen. As noted in the article, Fox will never pull viewers away from their entrenched news outlets. A CNN viewer would never entertain the idea of switching to Fox. Worse, the liberal news market is already saturated.
Fox was already losing advertising dollars over cancel culture. Once viewership tanks, the rest will leave, too. In the end, for our corrupt news media, it’s all about ad revenue. Nothing else really matters.
Paul Ryan was a deciding factor of the direction Fox was going to go. With Ryan on the Board it was obvious that Fox was going to become a third rate network. Follow the ratings since Ryan became associated with Fox.
MY God most of you Freepers are soooooo transactional. This was NOT a business decision at all. Get t?
NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MONEY.
“Why did they called AZ, just on 30% of counted votes, even before the election day votes were in?
Beyond me!”
Because of Obama-loving, leftist Fox News “Decision Desk” analyst Arnon Mishkin, who wanted to suppress the Republican vote in AZ. And Bret Baier has been Mishkin’s willing accomplice.
This is about the GOPe trying to assert control again over the party. Faux News has always been their voice.
Fox and the LEFTIST cable news channels still get cable subscriber fees. To defund them all, you have to cut your cable tv.
Paul Ryan is calling the shots, he wants the GOP back.
Worse than Dwyer. Dwyer’s shot resulted in a clean death, Fox News’ bullet went at an angle and came out the side of the head, now we are watching the gurgling corpus slowly bleed out.
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