Who has more to gain or more to lose?
For reference:
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I imagine this conversation goes something like this: “If you ever set me up with another ambush, brag publicly about how you have a plan to take care of me in case I go crazy, and then ask inflamatory questions implying I am racist, sexist, whatever-ist, then I will burn your network to the ground. Got it? Ask fair policy related questions or it’s curtains for you.”
On Monday, before Donald Trump declared his boycott against Fox News and asked his followers to join him, Fox News’s prime-time ratings were 2.210 million.
Wednesday, after the boycott went into effect, Fox News’s ratings were 2.416 million — a pickup of more than 200,000 viewers.
Maybe Roger Ailes just wants Donald Trump to keep saying bad things about Fox so that its viewership will continue to increase.
There is absolutely no question that Fox has disrespected Trump non stop. The worst may be Steve Hayes, George Will, Charles Krauthammer night after night after night, equally bad is Kelly
They should put clips together to view at this meeting, its unjournalistic unbalanced and unfair coverage.
Bret Baer mentioning the Fox Poll last night, he seemed unhappy about saying Trump had gained 1 point (so they claim, probably higher)
On the CNN poll they were going with non stop, they never at any point said, hey wait a minute this is out of line with the CNN poll we ran with, Fox poll still has Carson in 2nd, Carly is not as high up as cnn said either.
On the Fox poll yesterday, by the time they got to the Kelly File the new headline for their poll was Trump stalled or stuck at whatever the number was, nothing about how he is significantly higher than the CNN poll they were trumpeting, and Carly was in 3rd place alone, no mention of that only that she was surging.
Trump is exactly right, Fox is treating Trump like the rest of the media treated Sarah Palin. Fox trashed her quite a bit as well including Kelly
Ailes’ brainfreeze thawed and he realized with Trump comes some 18 million more viewers. He won’t get anywhere near that number for the next debate if they diss Trump.
Again, Trump has the upper hand — as long as he pulls in the large numbers.
Imagine a next FoxNews debate, sans Trump, and only 3 million viewers.
If Fox fires Kelly and maybe others, the Trump back. Else, Trump should make a point of interviewing daily on whatever programs run opposite hers.
Ailes probably figures that it’s about time to recognize that Trump is the front runner and FOX needs to stop sniping with Democrat talking points.
Fox screwed the pooch - all for Megyn as she bleeds from her eyes or whatever.