Two reasons why Fox is losing viewers... Beck and Bill O’Reilly
How so?
Don't forget Horaldo and Shep Smith!
O’Reilly comes across as a pooly informed, pompus ass most of the time.
At least Beck does his homework, but it isn’t a message most want to hear. People had reather stick their head in the sand.
They also tend to have pretty horrible coverage of emerging events. I had to go to CNN to get anything substantial when Egypt fell. I had to shower afterward.
Fox was just bad.
Fox Business, with Claman, is getting worse too. Absolutely incapable of asking any question resulting in something newsworthy.
Also, with all the press outlets together, how come no real decent work on who and what caused the financial meltdown. I know its been localized to Congress and the ratings agencies, but nothing since, and nobody’s gone to jail.
Or 1) They're an entertainment network and B) They play the middle.
I really liked Beck’s book and his youtube videos (I don’t have TV at all). But I try to listen to his radio program and it is like listening to the banter between DJ’s on a pop FM station during morning drive. I miss the local talk show hosts that depend on information, as opposed to personality, to get an audience. I just listen to CD’s now.
I stopped watching on weekdays in am because I can’t stand that bimbo Gretchen....I have on the magical times of I Love Lucy instead.....
O’Really, for sure. Beck is on at 5 and that is not prime time.
Shemp and Mike Wallace! Plus the Krout and Kristol. Get a brain.
>> Two reasons why Fox is losing viewers... Beck and Bill O’Reilly
ALL teevee news sucks. All of it. Even Fox News. We have friends who keep foxnews on every hour they’re awake. Drone drone bla bla bla. It makes me tired.
Hey, I sound like Frantzie now! :-) But it’s true. FoxNews may suck *less* than the others, but it still sucks big.
Agree ...and Gretta is inconsistent at best. At least two days out of five (often more) she leans heavily to the left.
Fox News has great potential to be the "other voice" we have so desperately needed, but they move ever more leftward ...and call it "fair and balanced."
Just this morning, I'm watching coverage of the situation in Wisconsin wherein the law has been passed and now needs to be implemented (I really don't give a rat's a$$ how many demonstrators there are in Madison).
They have the state senate majority leader who gives a reasoned and factual state of affairs going forward, and the newscaster tells us (almost panting) ..."and now for the other side."
How often do we get that when The One gives his never-ending diatribes about anything?
they kept shep and whorealdo but did get rid of colmes
they need to bring Dhue back.
I'd say Beck, Hannity and a complete lack of real breaking news coverage.
I can see O’Reilly driving viewers away, but Beck? Perhaps if they’d drop leftist idiots like Shep, Colmes, and Whoraldo, they’d regain some viewers. I watch Cavuto. I watch Beck. I watch the 6 PM news gang. After that, I’m pretty much done.
I’d say Shepard Smith and O’Reilly. I’ve only seen Beck once so I really don’t have an opinion.
I stopped watching the news anywhere in 2006, I am much happier. I can read all I want and not have to put up with the emoting and battling.
That's why I watch so little of Fox.
American public is grossly ignorant of its own history, and on may important issues Beck is the only source of essential information (that should've been provided in high schools). In contrast, O'Riley is a populist. As talented as he is, there has always been enough populists around. He is replaceable in that sense, but Beck is not.
Most people, including many on this forum, don't know what socialism and fascism are, and can't recognize them when fascism looks them in the face. Had more conservatives known the basics that Beck is trying to provide, we would see less socialist propaganda on FR.
Seems like you are blaming one person that provides enlightenment where it is desperately lacking.