Any case of how selective use of statistics can be used to present a misleading picture. See raw data below. Fox News still has all most 2xs as many viewers as any of the Leftists. Fox owns 9 of the top 10 most watched shows. CNN best show is Larry King (not really a news show) that draws less then half the auidence Bill O'Reily draws. I suspect this is a one time bump because CNN did a FAR better job of covering the Israel-Leabanon war. This bump will probably will be gone in the Sept numbers.
I suspect another problem for Fox is is now that they have decided to be Jun Media Lite and pander to the same Leftist talking points a segment of their viewers see no reason to watch them over any of the other Trash Media shows. FOX - Aug 2005 -- 1,001,000 -- Aug 2006 -- 933,000 - 7% drop
CNN - Aug 2005 -- 433,000 -- Aug 2006 -- 584,000 - 35% increase
MSNBC - Aug 2005 -- 220,000 -- Aug 2006 -- 277,000 - 26% increase
Maybe those are selective figures on FOX vrs CNN however, I find myself turning FOX off more and more. They seemed to have forgotten who brought them to the dance.
Just this morning I turned the tv off when the top story of the day is a reporting of a NYT article about GOP bloodbath in November. How is that the top news story of the day? In fact, how is a story that hasn't happened a story at all?
I can see why FOX has slipped in the ratings.
If you went to CNN or MSNBC, you were spared the hysterics of Shep Smith and Jonathan Hunt. They certainly drove me away.
If Fox's viewership has gone down quite a bit the last year or two...they might want to look to Sheppy Smith...
That Katrina performance was enough to send a lot of people away.