ABC's David Muir sees newscast ratings decline after controversial debate performance

FoxNews ^ | September 17, 2024 | Brian Flood

[Robwin]

ABC’s "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir may have driven away some viewers after the Disney-owned network irked conservatives during last week’s presidential debate.

Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times without ever correcting Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting a plethora of conservatives to suggest the debate wasn’t fair. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America even called for a correction after Davis made an abortion claim made during the debate during one of the fact-checks on Trump that the group said was "100% inaccurate."

Muir’s "World News Tonight" averaged 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the three episodes following the debate, after averaging 7.6 million in 2024 leading up to the debate.

[Robwin]

Big surprise. The actual decline should have been to zero, but apparently the average American can't give up the bilge the MSM continues to flush out.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Nobody in their right mind should be watching the crap “media mafia” newscasts. They are all nothing but “misinformation.”

[dfwgator]

Seriously, who watches network news anymore?

[RoosterRedux]

Of the 25 people who used to watch it, only 5 remain?

[DeplorablePaul]

One would think that the ABC fact checks would at least be accurate. None of them were. Very sloppy. ABC took a big hit on their reputation.

[stanne]

Controversial?

It was NOT controversial

It was a direct ambush and attack

[chopperk]

Maybe David should get recurrent training on how to be a broadcasting journalist.

[OldHarbor]

They sneak David Muir or Lester Holt in on you if you watch a local ABC or NBC affiliate news video on YouTube .

That is the only reason I know who Muir is , as I stopped watching network tv 10 years ago.

So you watch a local 13NEWS story on YouTube and at the end they tack on David Muir thanking you for watching ABC news and they plug their Network Broadcast. Holt the same way with NBC .

[dfwgator]

There are no journalists, only propagandists.

[rlmorel]

I am of the opinion that this behavior by the networks was not sloppy. It was intentional. I just wrote this on another thread discussing the abortion exchange:

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"The lies were out a week ago, have made it halfway around the world, and now the proverbial pants are being pulled up.

This is exactly what they intended. They wanted the “moderators” to challenge those statements by Trump without even the slightest concern for the truth.

They did that to send those lies around the world, knowing full well by the time people got their pants on, the truth didn’t matter and wouldn’t be heard."

[CatOwner]

Seriously, who watches network news anymore?

The "choir", the ones re-posting MSM's talking points throughout social and online media. Network news mainly gets the old farts, social/online media the rest.

[Blurb2350]

Sure it’s all crap and misinformation, but you must admit his hair is fab-U-luss.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL! Okay, I will. Heh.

[frogjerk]

LAUGH!

[rktman]

ABC, muir, ratings......I don’t get it. 😊👍

[FormerFRLurker]

As long as he keeps his job he doesn’t care. He’s crying all the way to the bank.

[1Old Pro]

Seriously, who watches network news anymore?

Liberals over 50 or so years old

[wardaddy]

Tucker gets views like that on big shows
Even more actually

[wardaddy]

Megyn gets a million on YouTube just for routine vids

We’ve really hurt them

It’s hope we keep up

I assume I speak for most here about our pods we peruse daily

[Recovering_Democrat]

he should’ve lost more viewers. hopefully he will.