[theDentist]

Fewer people turning to evening News.

....or reading the Times as well.

[playball0]

Fewer people are turning to discredited sources.

[nutmeg]

FoxFan ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.

[Uncle Miltie]

No mention that all liberal outlets lose viewers.

Revolt against liberal political bias in the news can explain every one of their statistics, but they couldn't report that. It wouldn't be liberal of them.

[Prof Engineer]

Has the nation's television audience burned out on serious news?

I might watch if television reported the news.

Until then, there is FReeRepublic!

[Gorzaloon]

Either way, Murphy said he did not expect the ratings funk to continue for long. "People come to watch the news when they need the news," he said. "And they will need it again."

People NEED steam looms! They'll be back!

Or:

(whine) Nobody is LISTENING to us!!

[Uncle Miltie]

"the average daily audience at Fox News grew to 753,000, compared with 612,000 during last summer's two-month period"

Hmmmmmm.....Why is this the only growth statistic? Inquiring reporters ought to know....

[lainie]

"People come to watch the news when they need the news," he said. "And they will need it again."

hehe -- sounds like something a smack dealer might say

[sarasota]

I'd venture to say that we're getting our news bytes online during the day. The "evening news" rarely tells me anything I haven't already read here.

[eyespysomething]

I get all the news I need from the internet.

At evening news time, we are eating dinner, baths, playtime, reading, homework, etc.

The "news" that they are referring to is unnecessary, IMO. (at least to me). I can watch Brit Hume rerun at midnight, and with at least 3 24 hour news channels, there is no need to bust a hump to watch network news at 6, 6:30 or 7. I can watch it anytime on FoxNews, MSNBC, or the other one (which I don't watch - CNN).

[dead]

The daily average audience for:

• MSNBC: 197,000 down from 254,000
• Fox News: 753,000 up from 612,000

Ouch. Bring back Donohue.

[Semper Paratus]

Considering all the health and medical content, their audience are all in nursing homes.

[jimbo123]

Rather
Brokaw
Jennings
CNN Clinton Monkeys
MNSBC Clinton Monkeys

[Lexington Green]

Has the nation's television audience burned out on serious news?

No. They just got fed up with commie propaganda masquerading as news.

[jalisco555]

American soldiers are dying in Iraq almost daily; questions continue to swirl around the Bush administration's case for the invasion there in March;

One need only look at how institutions like the Times frame the question to see why they are losing influence.

[mombonn]

Such idiots. They know the real reason, and hate it.

LIBERAL MEDIA IS A DINOSAUR WAITING TO BE BURIED.

[McGavin999]

People don't like being lied to and manipulated. If the networks and the print media think we don't know it, they're fools.

Freepers are among the most informed people anywhere, but even the average American knows they're being lied to about Iraq, and they can't stand all the negative rants about our president.

[M Kehoe]

"People have been through two years of very heavy-duty, stressful news, from Sept. 11 through the war with Iraq," said Jim Murphy, executive producer of the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather." "I think there's probably just a little bit of a break-taking going on across the spectrum."

The downward spiral of ad revenue and viewers has been going on for over three years. All of the alphabet soup (abccbsnbecnnnytlattimenpr) has lost readers/listeners and ad revenue. As the above quote shows, these liberals still don't get it. And that's a good thing.

5.56mm

[poet]

One of the reasons may be that they continue to repeat and bore us to death when a "hot" story hits. All of them milk these stories including foxnews. And they are all guilty of not reporting the "real" news. They milk the hell out of these stories for weeks on end until I get desensitized to them and tune out.

The recent loss by the irs in a Memphis court case on August 8th still has not been reported not even by that "great" "fair & balanced" foxnews.

[blau993]

Among other things, these bozos have never paid much attention to the work and commuting habits of Americans. The network news programs come on at either 6:00 or 6:30 PM (Eastern Time). An awful lot of us just don't get home that early. Even if I wanted to (wh I don't) I couldn't watch these shows. Cable news is more in tune with the life I and many other workers lead.