Posted on 07/07/2023 5:53:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
FOX hasn't done itself any favors by canning Tucker.
So FOX News has decided to replace Tucker Carlson with Bill O’Reilly’s one-time man-on-the-street interviewer, Jesse Watters--someone whose gravitas rating hovers in the same abysmal neighborhood as the network’s late-night darling, Greg Gutfeld.
What attracted folks like me to Tucker’s program was his unpredictability, his willingness to let guests talk, his repeated calls to spend time with family and loved ones, and his apparent devotion to a moral vision rooted in religious tradition---all of which informed his tagline opposition to “lying, pomposity, smugness, and group think.” The “group think” moniker wasn’t limited to the multitude of Woke idiocies but also extended to third-rail GOP topics, most conspicuously to opinions about the war in Ukraine. Republicans like Lindsey Graham who are welcomed on Hannity’s program frequently found themselves targets of Carlson’s anti-neocon, open border criticism.
A Mediaite analysis of primetime ratings showed FOX News lost a million viewers after Tucker’s firing, viewership going from an average of 2.6 million in the four weeks prior to Carlson’s departure to a 1.6 million average in the four subsequent weeks. The hemorrhage in Tucker’s 8 p.m. Eastern time slot was even more dramatic, falling from 3.27 million to 1.49 million viewers—an outflow that continues to this day.
I doubt the network’s brass expect to recover Tucker’s audience with Watters at the helm, a broadcaster whose comic persona and intellectual shallowness (He wasn’t sure Hawaii was the 50th state) detract significantly from the impact of his largely accurate but analogy-saturated critiques of leftist policies. Indeed, one might argue that the Paul Ryan contingent on the network’s board have a death wish for FOX News as a Trump-friendly conservative voice. What else can explain Greg Gutfeld’s ubiquitous presence as a regular host on The Five...
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Well, depending on your cable system, you might not have access to other channels. What channels do you prefer, and do you have cable TV, or get such channels another way?
FOX news just another lemming on the run to the cliff.
This kind of arrogance happens when 'elties' at the top of a company care more about their big fat egos then about the survival of the company.
For FOX to dump their most popular host was up there with... as you would say ... Budweiser. Look on you mighty and despair... Shelley'
O’Reilly is unwatchable. He’s dumb and arrogant.
Stopped any interaction with him after he trashed Swift Boat Veterans waaaay back in 2004 election....
None of which explains the absence of MAGA advertising boycotts
Is TuckerCarlson still on Twitter?
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