Fox News Beaten in Ratings by Both CNN and MSNBC for First Time in 20 Years

News Weak ^ | January 12, 2021 | Emma Nolan

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think we could really rub salt in Fox’s wounds by creating a list of things Fox could do to “atone” for its bad behavior.

1) A weekday, one hour commercial free prime time bloc for President Trump or someone he designates.

any other ideas?

[TChad]

Rachel Maddow on top. Little Ms. Russiagate, triumphant.

Year after year of lies every night, and she paid no price. Her brain-dead followers still believe the Steele Dossier is real.

Unlike many Freepers, I still like Tucker, though I no longer watch his Fox stuff. If Trump starts his own network, I think Tucker would make a good hire.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Count me as one of those countless folks who have abandoned all news outlets. Free Republic is the greatest news aggregator on the planet, and I’m happy to get my news right here.

I’m going against the grain, but I watch a heck of a lot of YouTube videos; mostly film noir, WWII newsreels, and very old car commercials, with some Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, and Rodney Dangerfield thrown in for good measure. I have an ad blocker, so I don’t have to boycott that which I cannot see.

Hope you’re feeling better, MinuteGal!

[steel_resolve]

keep your time and money away from people who hate us and we win

Bears repeating OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND MF’ING OVER!!!!!

THIS IS HOW WE WIN

[existentially_kuffer]

I’ll be making a toast to the beat down!

[existentially_kuffer]

Ok, who’ll be first to demand action on FOX’s performance? Disney share holders or FOX’s dwindling audience?

[Lisbon1940]

This list maker users last names for everyone else but is on a first-name basiswith Tucker Carlson.

[Sir_Humphrey]

The moral to the story here is pander to your audience and never allow other points of view to be heard. This business about "Fair and Balanced" or "We Report You Decide" is over rated. MSNBC and CNN know this and seemed to have triumphed. (You can't get conservative voices there because in their words "we don't report lies")

Seriously, alternative points of view do not intimidate me as long as both sides get to tell their story. That's never been the case on CNN/MSNBC. On those station conservatives may be allowed but they only do when when the conservative is outnumber at least 4-1. People are mad at Fox because they called AZ for Biden (might have been pre mature but in the end they were right) and pointed out that neither Guiliani, Powell or Wood could make their case of fraud to a judge. That's not opinion- that's fact. They dropped all charges of fraud to the judges in WI and PA but I digress.

The bigger point is that yes they have Chris Wallace but they also have Tucker. Yes they have Geraldo, but they also have Hannity. Same for Donna Brazille vs Mark Levine, Jessie Watters, etc. I could give example after example but there are as many Trump critics as there are Trump supporters. Unfortunately, balance does not sell these days.

[Sam Gamgee]

Would love to see Tucker and Hannity jump ship to OAN - although their pay check will be quite a bit smaller.

[Boomer]

I’d like to definitively know who made the call to sabotage the election on election day. The exact person. Probably the owner bish.

[M-cubed]

I can't imagine anyone that watched Fox shifting to CNN or MSNBC. <<<

Of course not!...lol..but there are probably 30-40 million actual Biden voters that dont have a clue, but they need a “fix” like a common junkie......when they feel uncomfortable with their situation they go for the only fix they know.....More of the same!

It can be explained as “Normalcy Bias”
https://psychologenie.com/insight-into-concept-of-normalcy-bias-in-psychology

and “Cognitive Dissoance”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326738#effects

[peggybac]

I hope folks still tune in to Tucker, Watters, and Gutfield, as well as Lou Dobbs at FBN.

[peggybac]

Excellent post.